iPhone Assistive touch keeps turning on by itself Randomly on iOS 16 or later

  • Turn off assistive touch and restart iPhone and disable assistive touch shortcut and restart your iPhone.
  • Update iPhone to latest version iOS 16 or later and reset all settings.

On your iPhone 14, 13, 12, 11 or any iPhone, if you have enabled assistive touch on iPhone and your assistive touch button keeps turning on by itself randomly on and off and assistive touch keeps popping on iPhone easily and for iPhone iOS 16 or later iOS version users they are experiencing this issue of assistive touch keeps turning on and off and turn off assistive touch and restart your iPhone update your iPhone to latest version and other methods explained below.

How to Fix iPhone Assistive touch keeps turning on by itself Randomly on iOS 16 or later

Fix iPhone Assistive touch keeps turning on by itself Randomly on iOS 16 or later

Below methods will help you fix assistive touch keep popping on and off itself randomly on iPhone iOS 16 issue.

Use Siri to Turn off Assistive Touch

Step 1: Activate siri on iPhone and press and hold side button for 2 seconds.

Step 2: Now, Ask Siri to turn on Assistive Touch and siri will turn off assistive touch.

Once you turn off assistive touch on your iPhone then you wont be able to get assistive touch keeps turning off and on issue.

Turn Off Assistive Touch and Restart your iPhone

Step 1: Open settings -> Accessibility

Step 2: Tap on Touch -> Assistive touch

Step 3: Turn on Assistive touch by toggling the button next to it.

Step 4: Now, press volume up button and then side  and hold side button and restart your iphone

Once you turn off assistive touch and restart your iPhone then your issue of assistive touch behaving strange and turning on and off by itself issue will be resolved on your iPhone 11, 12, 13, 14 with iOS 16 or later.

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Turn off Accessibility Shortcut for Assistive Touch

Step 1: Open settings -> Tap on Accessibility

Step 2: Tap on Accessibility Shortcut.

Step 3: Disable Assistive touch.

Sometimes, if you have accidentally triggering assistive touch shortcut then this issue can happen and once you disable accessibility shortcut on iphone then your issue will be resolved and assistive touch will not pop up or turn off and turn on by itself.

Turn off Back Tap

Step 1: Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Tap on Touch

Step 2: Now, tap on Back Tap

Step 3: Tap on Double tap and select none

Step 4: Tap on triple tap and select none.

If you have enable back tap option on iphone then this issue can happen sometimes by triggering back tap on iphone.

Update iPhone to Latest Version’

Check for any iphone 16 or latest software version is available from apple and update it to latest version, iphone iOS version has this bug and once updating to latest version will fix assistive touch keeps popping on and off by itself or turning on and off assistive touch issue.

Reset All Settings

You need to reset all settings and restore settings to factory default to fix assistive touch keeps turning on and off by itself randomly and all assistive touch settings are set to correct and fix this issue.

How to stop assistive touch on iPhone

Step 1: Open settings

Step 2: Accessibility

Step 3: Touch

Step 4: Assistive touch and turn off.

Once you turn off assistive touch then assistive touch icon will disappear and this is how you stop assistive touch on iphone by turning off assistive touch.

How to Turn Off Assistive Touch on iPhone 13, 14, 12, 11, x ,xr

Ask siri -> Hey siri turn off assistive touch and siri will turn off assistive touch on iphone 14, 13, 12, 11 or any iphone and to turn off manually -> Settings -> Accessibility -> Touch -> Assistive touch and turn off.

Why Does My Assistive Touch Keep Turning OFF and ON

If you have accidentally pressed home button multiple times and triggering accessibility shortcut or if back tap options are enabled or it can be an issue with latest iOS 16 or later software bug as well and update iphone and turn off assistive touch shortcuts and assistive touch option to fix.

Vangari Divya
Vangari Divya
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