iPhone 6 comes with a nifty feature that allows users to easily access top-of-the-line apps on the home screen or anything placed above the screen. It’s called Reachability, but not everyone is a big fan of it. Here’s how to disable it.
Accessibility can be accessed by double-tapping the Home button. This is different from double-clicking. Tapping involves placing your finger over the Touch ID fingerprint sensor without actually clicking the Home button.
By double-tapping the Home button, the entire screen moves down about halfway, giving you easier access to the top of the screen. This feature is great for users who constantly use their iPhone 6s with one hand. However, many people use their iPhone 6s with both hands, so Accessibility just won’t work in this case.
While accessibility is a useful feature for those who need it, here’s how to disable it if you find that you never use the feature.
Turning off Accessibility
If you don’t use accessibility that often (or at all), it’s really easy to disable it. Just follow these simple steps:
- Open the application.
- Tap on it.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see a setting.
- Turn the toggle button next to it.
Accessibility is now turned off and double-tapping the Home button will no longer activate the feature.
After disabling accessibility and it still activates with a double tap, try re-enabling it and then disabling it again to see if it works. If that still doesn’t work, do a hard reset by pressing and holding the Home button and Power button simultaneously until you see the Apple logo. Let your iPhone 6 restart then the problem should be resolved.
Other New iPhone 6 Features
Accessibility isn’t the only new feature in iPhone 6 and iOS 8. In fact, the iPhone 6 has many new features that make it a worthwhile upgrade for older iPhone owners.
The most notable new feature is the clearly larger display, where the iPhone 6 has a 4.7-inch display, while the iPhone 6 Plus has a larger 5.5-inch display. The former has a higher resolution of 1334×750, while the iPhone 6 Plus has an even higher resolution at 1920×1080.
Another standout aspect of the iPhone 6 is its complete redesign, with a slimmer body than the iPhone 5s and rounded edges instead of the angular edges that have existed since the iPhone 4’s launch in 2010.
The iPhone 6 also includes Apple Pay, the company’s new digital payments platform that lets you shop at retail stores with the wave of iPhones and the Touch ID fingerprint sensor with a tap.
While the UI on the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 remains largely the same as on previous models, the iPhone 6 Plus has an entirely new UI reminiscent of the iPad, with two-pane windows in some apps and even the ability to use it. Home screen horizontally, which has never been done on an iPhone before. It even has independent cut, copy and paste keys on the iPhone 6 Plus keyboard, something we may see in iOS 8 for the iPad in the future.
The iPhone 6 also uses Apple’s new A8 processor, and it’s safe to assume it offers faster speeds than the iPhone 5s, although Apple doesn’t say what speed it’s running at. Apple says the A8 offers 20% faster performance with 50% faster graphics.
First introduced on the iPhone 5s, the M7 motion processor is also getting an update, but this time Apple is calling it the M8 (not to be confused with the HTC One M8). The new chip can tell the difference between cycling and running, and can also calculate distance and height. It does this with the help of a built-in barometer that uses air pressure to measure relative altitude.
