Easy Settings to Avoid Mistouching Your Phone

Mistouching your phone may cause some “incidents”, such as accidentally calling a friend or enabling the ScreenReader/TalkBack.

How to avoid these awkward situations? Set up your phone as follows to prevent mistouches.

Enable Mistouch Prevention

Accidentally pressing the screen is quite common when you carry your phone in hand or pocket.

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  • Open Settings,
    touch Accessibility features.

  • Enable Mistouch prevention to avoid unintended operations by accidentally touching the edge of the screen.

How to Disable
ScreenReader / TalkBack?

With ScreenReader / TalkBack enabled, your phone will automatically read the content you touch, select, and activate. If you have accidentally enabled ScreenReader / TalkBack, you can disable it with either of the two methods below.

*Reminder: The name of this function varies with devices, please refer to the actual situation. The voice feedback is determined by the language engine pre-installed in the system. This means that voice feedback may not be available for all languages.

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  • Press and hold the Power button until your phone displays the powering off or restarting screen.
    Then press and hold the screen with two fingers for more than 3 seconds to exit this function.

  • Go to Settings

  • Accessibility features > Accessibility

  • ScreenReader/TalkBack,
    disable this function.

  • *Reminder: In this mode, touch to select an item (the selected item will have a green frame), and double-touch any place on the screen to activate the item.

Use Gestures Navigation

When Three-key navigation is enabled, the shutter button and home key will be close to each other and are therefore easily to be mistouched.

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  • Go to Settings

  • System & updates > System
    navigation

  • Enable Gestures to prevent mistouches.

Try the settings above to avoid awkward incidents caused by
mistouching your phone.

*Reminder: The instructions above are followed with EMUI 11.0 as an example. It may be slightly different in other versions. Please adjust according to your actual situation.