How to Access iPhone Control Center Without Requiring You to Touch the Screen: The Back Tap Way

The Control Center on your iPhone can be easily accessed by just sliding one of your fingers on the top-right side of the screen. There are some cases where you want to explore it without the need to touch the screen.

This method is possible, but you need a special accessibility feature to get started. Here's how you can access this using the Back Tap to get started.

What is Back Tap

According to a report by Macrumors on Thursday, Apr. 14, you can access the Control Center without touching the screen by using a feature called Back Tap.

From your iPhone, you can easily double or triple-tap the rear of your device thus assigning a designated action for it. In this case, you will be using Back Tap to activate the Control Center panel on your device.

Interestingly, you can fully run it without the need to tap the screen with your hands, so it's hassle-free and very convenient to utilize.

It should be noted that your device should be iPhone 8 or a later version. You should also remember that it should have an iOS 14 or newer operating system on your device.

Once the requirements are already met, you can now begin assigning the Control Center through this feature.

Steps to Follow For Accessing the Control Center Through Back Tap

In a similar report by Macrumors, there are only six steps that you need to follow if you want to access the Control Center without requiring your finger movement.

For more information, check the procedures below.

1. First, open the Settings app from your device.
2. Then, click "Accessibility."
3. Once you're done with it, go to the "Physical and Motor" section and click "Touch."
4. Scroll further down until you see "Back Tap."
5. After finding it, you can now trigger an action that you want to happen by tapping "Double Tap" or "Triple Tap."
6. Finally, choose Control Center from the System list.

If you properly follow all these steps, then you're now set to accessing your iPhone's Control Center. You can immediately use Back Tap. In addition, you can also dismiss a section using the same accessibility feature.

Apart from the above-mentioned process, the Back Tap feature can also be used if you want to open a particular app on your iPhone. That's not the only thing that you can do here.

You can open the Camera and access the Zoom app using it. The Back Tap can also allow you to switch on the Rotation Lock and even activate a shortcut.

For Mac users who want to know more details about Control Center, Apple's official support page wrote that you can even customize it. For reference, you can click this link.

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Written by Joseph Henry