u/Xenolog

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Tips to teach elder parent modern iphone swipe to home screen

Hello community,

What were the things that worked for you, or for your older parents - to get it how iphone "swipe to home" works, and to get the gesture reliably?

I'm having a trouble teaching my heavily visually impaired, elder parent how swipe to home screen works on modern iphones (those without home button). He has a difficult combo of very bad touch sensitivity (20 years at factory), worsened hearing and kinda stuck mentally - it is rather difficult to teach him what sensor screen gestures is.

When he does a swipe from bottom of iphone to go to home gesture - he has difficulty understanding that his finger swiped the screen, and how far (yes, I had trouble realizing that too), iphone vibration is too low for him to understand it happens and sound cue is too quiet for him to register it. I think that he can't build this mental image of action -> result, which is why it is so problematic.

Is it possible to make iphone audio cues very loud? If yes, how so?

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u/Xenolog — 17 hours ago