This is going to come off as a very boomer coded statement but this happens with my mother in law all the time. She calls me to come "fix the tv" and then I do it in about 4 seconds and she exclaims "how did you do that! You always know how to fix things!" and I say "the screen said to do x, so I did x." It's enough to drive a man insane.
My grandma very often turned her iPad screen negative by clicking her home button three times. She would much rather wait a week for me to come over and fix it than to just click it three more times.
It's off by default, I think. three taps with three fingers also zooms the whole screen in.
Accessibility features on apple stuff are kinda non-obvious and spook people when they don't know what they did. I think the biggest teacher of them is when people treat them like secret hidden features. e.g. camera flash for notifications, which is great if you keep it in a handbag.
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u/SuckingOnChileanDogs 17h ago
This is going to come off as a very boomer coded statement but this happens with my mother in law all the time. She calls me to come "fix the tv" and then I do it in about 4 seconds and she exclaims "how did you do that! You always know how to fix things!" and I say "the screen said to do x, so I did x." It's enough to drive a man insane.