Me too. I keep it on characters or words. I actually have been doing this
for as long as I have been using an iphone. I had that problem as far back
as my iphone 5s.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM Alex Stone <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Carolyn, that's a good idea, if screen recognition gets turned on in the
> wrong place, ít can be really
>
> Written in Braille on Alex's  Iphone
>
>
> > On 8 Aug 2025, at 01:24, Carolyn Arnold <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Could it help to turn off Screen Recognition?
> >
> > Carolyn Arnold
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio
> > Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2025 6:07 PM
> > To: iPhone List <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Issues with Gesture Navigation on iPhone 16E When Rotor Is Set
> to Activities or other actions
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > After five faithful years with my iPhone SE 2nd Generation, I recently
> upgraded to the iPhone 16E because the Haptic Home button stopped working.
> Since the 16E doesn’t have a physical Home button, I’ve had to rely
> entirely on gesture-based navigation — especially the swipe up from the
> bottom to go Home or open the App Switcher.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here’s the issue I’m facing:
> >
> > When I perform these gestures, particularly when VoiceOver focus is near
> the bottom of the screen, the Rotor sometimes reacts — switching Activities
> unexpectedly or triggering features like Screen Recognition. It feels like
> the gesture is being misinterpreted as a Rotor movement.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > To work around this, I’ve been manually setting the Rotor to something
> like “Containers” or “Headings” before doing the gesture, and that seems to
> help. Still, it’s something I never had to worry about before — not on the
> SE, and not even on my iPad 9th Generation, which still has a Home button.
> (There, I actually like using the new gestures, and they don’t cause this
> kind of conflict.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > One thing that might be contributing: I usually leave the Rotor on
> “Activities” since I use one Activity for English and another for Spanish.
> I never saw a need to switch away from it constantly — but with these new
> gesture-based interactions, I’m having to be much more mindful about that.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I’ve considered assigning a custom gesture, like a three-finger
> triple-tap, to perform the “Go to Home” action — which might avoid the
> conflict altogether. But doing that feels like it would take away from the
> whole point of learning and adapting to the new gesture system, so I’m
> hesitant to go that route.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone else dealt with something similar?
> >
> > Am I maybe just performing the gesture slightly off, or is this a known
> quirk when using the Rotor with Activities?
> >
> > Would love to hear your thoughts or any suggestions you’ve found helpful.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Gera
> >
> > Enviado desde mi iPhone 16e
> >
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