The rotor control is a virtual dial that you can use to change the results of up and down flick gestures when VoiceOver is turned on.
- Operate the rotor: Rotate two fingers on the iPhone screen around a point between them.
- Change the options included in the rotor: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor and select the options you want to be available using the rotor.
The effect of the rotor setting depends on what you’re doing. If you’re reading text in an email you received, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word or character-by-character when you flick up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, you can use the rotor setting to hear all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from one element to another of a certain type, such as headers or links.
Reading text
Select and hear text by:
- Character, word, or line
Speaking
Adjust VoiceOver speaking by:
- Volume or rate
- Use of typing echo, pitch change, or phonetics (using Apple Wireless Keyboard)
- See Controlling VoiceOver using an Apple Wireless Keyboard.
Navigating
Select and hear items by:
- Character, word, or line
- Heading
- Link, visited link, non-visited link, or in-page link
- Form control
- Table or row (when navigating a table)
- List
- Landmark
- Image
- Static text
- Items of the same type
- Buttons
- Text fields
- Search fields
- Containers (screen regions such as the dock)
- Zoom in or out
Entering text
Move insertion point and hear text by:
- Character, word, or lineSelect language
- Select edit function
Using a control
Select and hear values by:
- Character, word, or line
- Adjust the value of the control object