TAP TIP!

A HIDDEN button on your iPhone lets you take screenshots and scroll without touching your display

Revealed

By Sean Keach

7th October 2021, 10:23 am

Updated: 8th October 2021, 1:06 am

APPLE has loaded your iPhone with a hidden button that lets you control the phone without touching the display.

Better still, it’ll make your life much easier – letting you take screenshots and change the volume by simply tapping the back of your handset.

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You’ll need to update to iOS 14 to unlock the new feature

It’s called “Back Tap”, and it was introduced with the iOS 14 software update rolled out to iPhones in 2020.

How to use Back Tap on iPhone

To turn on the feature make sure you’ve updated to iOS 14 or later. To do that, go to Settings > General > Software update.

Then go to your Settings.

Scroll down and tap “Accessibility” and then click “Touch”.

Then scroll down to “Back Tap”.

You’ll have the choice to turn on “Double Tap” or “Triple Tap”.

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Back Tap is tucked away in your Settings app

Whichever you select gives you the same options.

Click to see which features you can now control with either a double or triple tap on the back of your phone.

They include taking screenshots, turning the volume up or down, magnifying, scrolling and more.

For example, if you wanted to use a Double Tap to take screenshots, click the “Double Tap” option and then tick “Screenshot”.

Now you should be able to take a screenshot just by tapping the back of your phone twice.

Bear in mind that this feature might not work if you have a thick phone case.

You can switch the features Back Tap controls or turn it off anytime by using the same steps above.

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We recommend setting Back Tap to Screenshot for seriously speedy screen-grabs