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How to customize your iPhone 15 Pro Action button using your phone
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- Focus:
- Camera:
- Flashlight:
- Voice Memos:
- Magnifier:
- Shortcuts:
- Accessibility:
- Silent Mode:
- No Action:
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Five best Accessibility options for your Action button
You have a lot more freedom to customize your Accessibility options when it comes to picking out what your Action Button does. These picks are a good way to make your phone simpler to use, whether that means making your text easier to read or using a special magnifier to make tiny items on your screen bigger.
Here are five Accessibility choices you might want to use out of all the different options that can make your phone feel much more personalized and comfortable to use:
- Zoom: You can use this option to magnify your phone’s screen. If you have trouble seeing details in pictures or on certain websites where the font doesn’t get bigger, this can be useful to keep you from straining your eyes.
- Voice Control: This option lets you use your voice to control your iPhone even if you’re already on a call, so you can call out instructions and stay hands-free when you’re driving or handling other business.
- Live Captions: You can use your iPhone to automatically show captions for audio that’s seen on all of your apps. They can make it easier to stay in tune with what’s going on if you have issues with hearing.
- Guided Access: This feature is great for if you have kids and only want to grant access for them to use certain parts of your phone. It will keep your phone in a single app and let you control what users can do.
- Live Speech: Using this option, you can type things out on your phone using the keyboard and it will speak them for you.
Five best Shortcuts to use with your Action button
These are great ways to automatically launch things you already do on your phone. For instance you can set up Shortcuts to automatically open apps when you press the Action Button. That could include opening your favorite music app or game so you don’t have to do it yourself.
Here are five of the best Shortcuts you can set your Action Button to launch.
- Open Notes App: You can set up a shortcut to open your Notes app so you can immediately start writing as soon as inspiration hits.
- Start FaceTime Call: It’s possible to set up a shortcut to press the Action Button that will automatically start a FaceTime call to your friends and family. No more going through the motions to start one.
- Launch Shazam: If you’re always wondering what a specific song on the radio is, set your Action Button to launch the Shazam app immediately so you don’t miss the song you want to hear. Shazam gets more time to figure out what song is playing since you can launch it with a button.
- Arm/Disarm Security System: You can set up a Shortcut to arm or disarm your security system if you have one that’s app-based. That way you don’t have to go into the security app, like Ring or Blink, and follow multiple steps.
- Open Calendar: Set a Shortcut to launch your Calendar so you can quickly set up appointments, events, birthdays, and more all without having to go into the app to do it.
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Key takeaways
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