Swiping up on your home screen on iPhone brings up the control center which gives you access to key settings and shortcuts to launch key apps. Some users such as gamers would like to disable swipe up as it can get in the way of their gestures. Can you do this?
You don’t have the option to turn off the swipe up to bring up the control center on the home screen in iOS 11 and later iOS versions. However, you can turn off swipe up control center on the lock screen and within apps from settings.
- Turn off swipe up on lock screen & in apps
- How do I turn off swipe between apps on iPhone?
- How to turn off swipe to go back?
- How to disable iOS lock screen swipe left camera?
- How to disable swipe down and up menus?
- How to turn off the swipe keyboard feature?
- How do I turn off volume swiping?
- How to remove swipe up after faceid unlock?
- How to turn off multi finger swipe gestures on iPhone?
- How to create custom gestures on iPhone?
- How to disable iPad gestures?
Turn off swipe up on lock screen & in apps
1. Turn off control center on lock screen
To turn off swipe up control center option on the lock screen of your iPhone:
- Open “Settings” > “Touch ID & Passcode” (on iPhone 8 plus and below versions) or “Face ID & Passcode” (on iPhone X and later versions).
- Toggle off “Control Center” under the section “Allow access when locked”.
2. Turn off control center within apps
To turn off control center option within apps:
- Open Settings > “Control Center”.
- Toggle off “Access within apps”.
How do I turn off swipe between apps on iPhone?
Swipe between apps is a feature of iPad and is discontinued in iOS 14. If you are running iOS 13, you may have that feature as well and you can switch between apps by swiping the screen to the right.
Users often find themselves accidentally switching between apps while playing video games, where a lot of swiping is required, or while watching a video and trying to slide the video progress bar to the right.
This feature cannot be disabled in iOS 13 but you can disable it in iPad:
- Go to Settings > Home screen & dock
- Turning off multitasking
See also: iPhone Not Opening Apps From Links
How to turn off swipe to go back?
Swiping left to right will trigger a shortcut to go back on the iPhone. Be it Safari or any other app you are using, when you swipe from left to right you will go back to the previous page.
If you don’t like the the swipe to go back feature on the iPhone, here’s how to disable it:
- Go to “Settings” > “Accessibility”.
- Tap “Switch Control”.
- Choose “Recipes”.
- Tap on “Turn Pages”.
- There will be an option with “Left to right swipe”. Drag it towards the left to delete it.
Turn off Safari swipe
Safari has built-in swipe gestures allowing the user to swipe from left to right to go back to the previously opened webpage, and right to left to display the next web page that was viewed.
Up until iOS 7, there was no option to disable the swipe gestures in Safari. With newer iOS versions, however, you can now change the general swipe settings.
You can change how the swipe gestures react. See the section “How to turn off swipe to go back?” above..
How to disable iOS lock screen swipe left camera?
By default, swiping left while on the iPhone lock screen will open the camera app. You can disable access to the camera app from the lock screen on your iPhone:
- Open “Settings” > “Screen Time”.
- Select “Content & Privacy Restrictions”.
- Tap on “Allowed Apps”.
- Toggle off “Camera”.
Your camera app will be disabled and swiping on the lock screen will no longer open the app.
However, after performing the above steps. your camera app will also disappear from the home screen and apps section, preventing you from accessing the camera.
If you need to use the camera, you’ll need to go back and disable content and privacy restrictions to re-enable the camera app.
An alternative solution is to use a third-party camera app like Snapchat or Retrica. Using such an app, even if you’ve restricted direct access to the built-in iPhone camera app, you can use the camera through these apps.
How do I disable swipe to unlock?
Swipe to unlock is irritating to some users as you need to unlock your phone by swiping up for each little access, which can feel frustrating and time consuming.
Although there is no way to actually disable this “swipe up to unlock phone” setting on your iPhone, there is a cool workaround:
You can turn on the “Tap on back” setting to unlock your phone so you don’t have to swipe up every time.
- Open “Settings” > “Accessibility”.
- Tap “Touch”.
- Scroll down and choose “Back Tap”.
- Set either “Double-Tap” or “Triple Tap” to ”Home”.
Assuming you don’t have a passcode set, you’ll now be able to unlock your iPhone by pressing the power button and double or triple-tapping on the back of your phone instead of swiping up.
See also: Why Is My iPhone Stuck On Lock Screen?
How to disable swipe down and up menus?
When you swipe up on your iPhone you bring up the control center, while when you swipe down you get the notification center and spotlight search.
While there isn’t an option to disable the swipe gestures across the whole iPhone interface, you can disable the control center, notification center and spotlight search on the lock screen of your iPhone:
- Open “Settings” > “Touch ID & Passcode” (for 8 plus and previous phones) or “Face ID & Passcode” (for X and later phones).
- Enter your passcode.
- Scroll down and toggle off “Today View”, “Notification Center”, “Control Center” and “Siri” under the section “Allow Access When Locked”.
You can turn off spotlight searches as follows:
- Open “Settings” > “Siri & Search”.
- Toggle off “Press Home for Siri”, “Allow Siri When Locked”.
- Toggle off all the suggestions.
Again, there is no setting to disable the control center (swipe up option) and notification center (swipe down option) on the home screen.
See also: How Do You Change Swipe Down On Android?
How to turn off the swipe keyboard feature?
iPhone offers a cool “swipe typing” aka “Slide to type” feature on the default iPhone keyboard. With this feature enabled, you can swipe across keyboard characters to write a word instead of tapping.
While this typing method avoids striking the screen repeatedly, you may not like this feature as it increases the chances of typing errors due to accidental sliding on your keyboard.
To turn off the swipe keyboard feature on your iPhone:
- Open “Settings” > “General”.
- Tap on “Keyboard”.
- Scroll down and toggle off “Slide to Type”.
How do I turn off volume swiping?
Volume swiping lets you adjust the volume through screen swipes.
While you can’t simply turn off the volume swiping option on your iPhone, you can turn on “Guided Access” and restrict volume modifications (see below). Another option is to restrict the usage of volume buttons to modifying ringer sound and alerts.
1. Restrict volume using guided access
Guided Access restricts the usage of your phone so it only runs the current app. All the buttons and settings will be disabled unless guided access is disabled.
To turn on Guided Access on iPhone:
- Open “Settings” > “Accessibility”.
- Scroll down to the “General” section > select “Guided Access”.
- Toggle on “Guided Access”.
After enabling Guided Access, you can turn it on as follows:
- On iPhone 8 and 8 plus, triple press the home button
- On later versions, triple press the side button.
After enabling Guided Access, triple press the home button or side button to edit the settings. You can then turn off the volume changing buttons to restrict its usage during guided access.
2. Restrict ringer and alerts volume
Another thing you can do is to restrict modification of the ringer and notifications volume by disabling the volume buttons for these two settings.
- Open “Settings” > “Sound & Haptics”.
- Toggle off “Change with Buttons”.
Now even when you press the volume buttons, the volume of ringer and alerts will not be modified.
See also: How Can I Answer My iPhone Without Swiping?
How to remove swipe up after faceid unlock?
When you press the wake button on your iPhone and enter your FaceID, even after successful face identification the phone will ask you to swipe up to use the phone.
This adds an additional layer to avoid accidental unlocking but can be irritating for some users. You can easily remove this swipe up feature, see the section “How do I disable swipe to unlock?” earlier.
How to turn off multi finger swipe gestures on iPhone?
Multi-finger swipe gestures are available in iOS for the iPad but not the iPhone.
Multi-finger gestures can sometimes disturb users while playing games. As the games involve a lot of tapping and swiping, iOS keeps detecting multi-finger gestures and reacts to them, which is annoying for the player.
To solve this issue, turn off multi-finger swipe gestures on your iPad:
- Open “Settings” > “Home screen & Dock”.
- Tap on “Multitasking”.
- Toggle off “Gestures”.
This will limit gestures to single and dual finger touch operations only, disabling multi-finger touch.
How to create custom gestures on iPhone?
With the “Accessibility” feature of iPhone you can add your favorite gestures on your phone for shortcuts.
For example, you can customize Touch and Hold to perform some action on your phone, or you can initiate a gesture based on a certain degree of rotation.
To create your custom gestures on iPhone:
- Open “Settings” > “Accessibility”.
- Tap on “Assistive Touch”.
- Toggle on “Assistive Touch”.
- Then scroll down and choose “Custom New Gestures”.
- Follow the instructions on screen to create your new customized gestures for iPhone.
How to disable iPad gestures?
iPad gestures can cause trouble while playing games which involves a lot of swiping and screen touching. To get rid of this issue, you can disable gestures on your iPad.
If you want to limit your iPad to one or two finger gestures you can disable iPad gestures available under settings.
- Open “Settings” > “Home screen & Dock”.
- Tap on “Multitasking”.
- Toggle off “Gestures”.