Navigate the Apple iPhone with your head using iOS 7

posted by Alan F. / Jun 26, 2013, 8:56 PM

Navigate the Apple iPhone with your head using iOS 7

Control your Apple iPhone with your head in iOS 7

It looks like navigating an Apple iPhone, once iOS 7 is here, will be as easy as getting a hernia exam. All you will need to do is turn your head to the side (no coughing required). Built into the Accessibilty section is a feature that lets you navigate the phone by moving your head to the left or the right. But using this feature requires you to go through all of your options on screen before you move your head to confirm your selection, making it a very slow process.

With this feature enabled, you can use left or right head movements to act like you're pressing on the home button, to open the notification center or app switcher, start Siri, raise or lower volume or to count as a tap on the glass.

Surely, Apple added this to iOS to combat some of the alternative gesture based navigation available on the Samsung Galaxy S4. The latter can turn pages with a gesture to the left or right and Air View allows the user to hover his finger over the glass to read emails and view pictures. The problem is that these are not seen as being innovations, but are considered gimmicks since most people are not going to turn their head to the left or right to navigate on the Apple iPhone, at least not in public

source: 9to5Mac via Gizmodo

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14 Comments

1. darkkjedii

Posts: 30836; Member since: Feb 05, 2011

Apple has innovated shaking your head "NO"

posted on Jun 26, 2013, 8:59 PM 6

9. Nathan_ingx

Posts: 4767; Member since: Mar 07, 2012

Shouldn't the headline read something like "Navigate the Apple iPhone with iOS7 using your head"? It's pretty darned confusing wondering if the phone or the head is supposed to come with the iOS7...i know it's always the phone but you know.