Alternatives To the iPhone Action Button

If you don't have an iPhone 15 Pro with the action button, you can still easily trigger a variety of actions using on-screen buttons, tapping the back of the iPhone, pressing the side button or even the volume buttons.

Comments: 6 Responses to “Alternatives To the iPhone Action Button”

    Jim Terrinoni
    1 year ago

    Good job. Clear, concise and complete.

    Sheldon
    1 year ago

    Thanks bunches

    Kathy
    1 year ago

    Hi Gary, wonderful as always, thank you. Is it possible to use the back tap feature while the phone is locked? I've tried a number of things unsuccessfully. Not a big deal to open the phone 1st but I was curious. Also with my already saved Shortcuts, In trying to alter the icon & then saving it to home screen, the icon was still the previous one the home screen. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I ended up saving a picture & that works ok too, again, just curious. Thanks so very much.

    1 year ago

    Kathy: I don't think so, because just about anything you need to do with it would require the phone to be unlocked. It would be a major security issue if you could set it up to do things while it was locked. It would create all sorts of security holes.

    Kathy
    1 year ago

    Hi Gary, that makes sense. Any thoughts about my inability to change the icon & have that reflected on the Home Screen? Thanks Gary, Kathy

    1 year ago

    Kathy: When you add it to the Home Screen there's a point in that process where you can set the icon.

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