How to use the back tap feature on iOS 14

One of the new features available on iOS 14, although not widely promoted but extremely useful, is Back Tap. This new feature of the iPhone allows users to manually adjust typing 2 or 3 times on the back of the device to use shortcuts, accessibility and many other system operations on iOS. In the article below, Quantrimang will guide you how to activate and use this latest back typing feature of iPhone.

The scope of use of the Back Tap feature on iPhone is largely limited to the automatic actions of the Shortcuts application. However, if you want to keep things simple, you can specify double or triple tapping on the back of your phone to open things like Control Center, take screenshots, or activate accessibility features. typically include AssistiveTouch, VoiceOver, Zoom, etc.

Back typing can work on the home screen, in apps (including third-party apps), or right from the iPhone’s lock screen.

How to use the back tap feature on iOS 14

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings (Settings) > Accessibility (Accessibility).
2. Choose Touch (Touch).
3. Scroll down and select Back Tap (Back Tap).
4. Choose Double Tap (Double Tap) or Triple Tap (Triple Tap) to choose an action.
5. Don’t forget you can use this back typing feature to access the actions installed on the Shortcuts app.

If you want to use the Back Tap feature to do things like access Control Center, Notification Center, etc., to go back to the old screen, make the same touch as just now.

Here are some examples of the back typing process.

You can choose to use double-tap/triple-tap, or use both. System-related actions will be at the top, scroll down to select an accessibility action or use a keyboard shortcut.