Android mobiles incorporate a tool that allows people with different abilities to use the mobile without inconvenience or difficulty. It is a good solution, but if it is not our case, we may find ourselves facing a problem that can lead us to despair at not knowing how to deactivate TalkBack and use our mobile phone normally.
This situation may not only affect our mobile to speak, but also will in some cases make us unable to use the touch screen of our mobile. One of the first tests we have done is to turn off the mobile, although this has not solved the situation and we have had to find other alternatives that allowed us to use the mobile as we have done until now.
Steps to disable TalkBack
The options to disable the text narrator in Android are not easy to use based on movements or adjustments on the screen and we will face problems to use it as we normally do. In this case, the only thing we will have to do is resort to the buttons of our mobile to carry out a series of keystrokes:
- Hold down the volume up and down button at the same time until the mobile vibrates.
- In case you ask us for a confirmation, we repeat the pulsation.
This option may have been activated inadvertently when carrying the mobile in your pocket or with any unexpected situation, although as you have seen its use it should not worry us and deactivating it will be easy.
Manually turn off TalkBack using the function
In some devices we can find ourselves facing a greater complication if with the gestures that we have explained before we are not able to deactivate them. In this case we are going to have to resort to using TalkBack to deactivate it, we know that it is not an easy task, so I explain how to use movements and taps in the accessibility tool.
- We scroll through the options by moving your finger on the screen left or right.
- We double-tap anywhere on the screen to accept.
- Use two fingers at the same time to move the image on the screen.
These resources can be very useful when we are faced with this option and do not know how to solve it. In the event that we meet people with different visual or motor abilities, it will be convenient for us to show them these options so that they themselves can use their mobile without dependence or difficulties that other users do not affect us on the use of the device.
