{"kind":"guides","slug":"turn-off-talkback-voiceover","path":"/guides/turn-off-talkback-voiceover","title":"Turn Off TalkBack or VoiceOver on Your Phone | SuperClonica","description":"Phone reading everything aloud? Turn off TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone with the volume keys, Siri or Settings, and how to tap while they are on.","h1":"How to turn off TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone","intro":"If your phone suddenly reads everything aloud and taps do not work as usual, a screen reader is on: TalkBack on Android or VoiceOver on iPhone. They are essential tools for blind and low-vision people, and they are also easy to switch on by accident with a button shortcut.\n\nThis guide collects the ways to turn them off from Google’s and Apple’s own help pages, including how to move around the screen while they are still on.","sections":[{"heading":"Android: turn off TalkBack","paragraphs":["The quickest way is the volume key shortcut: hold both volume buttons for a few seconds. You can also say “Hey Google, turn off TalkBack”, or open Settings, Accessibility, TalkBack and switch off Use TalkBack."]},{"heading":"Moving around while TalkBack is on","paragraphs":["With TalkBack on, one tap only selects an item and reads it aloud; to open or press it, tap twice with one finger. To scroll, place two fingers on the screen and drag up or down. That is how you reach the TalkBack switch in Settings."]},{"heading":"Samsung Galaxy: TalkBack or Voice Assistant","paragraphs":["On Galaxy phones the screen reader is TalkBack, called Voice Assistant on older software. Samsung says to press and hold Volume up and Volume down together for at least 3 seconds; the first time, a pop-up asks you to confirm with Use, then press the keys again. If the shortcut is not enabled, swipe down from the top with two fingers, select the Settings icon and double-tap it, then go to Accessibility and switch TalkBack off."]},{"heading":"iPhone: turn off VoiceOver","paragraphs":["Ask Siri, for example “Turn off VoiceOver”. If the Accessibility Shortcut is set to VoiceOver, triple-click the side button, or the Home button on models that have one. You can also use Control Center if VoiceOver is added there, or go to Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver. While VoiceOver is on you have to use its gestures: tap once to select, then double-tap to activate."]},{"heading":"iPhone reads the screen but VoiceOver is off","paragraphs":["Then it is probably Speak Screen. With it turned on, swiping down with two fingers from the top of the screen makes iPhone read all the text aloud, which is easy to do by accident. Use the on-screen controls to stop it, and if you do not want it, open Settings, Accessibility, Read and Speak (Spoken Content on older iOS) and turn off Speak Screen."]},{"heading":"Why it switched on","paragraphs":["Most often it was the shortcut: holding both volume keys on Android, or triple-clicking the side button on iPhone when VoiceOver is the Accessibility Shortcut. If it keeps happening, change or remove that shortcut in the accessibility settings, unless someone in the family relies on it."]},{"heading":"If you need a screen reader","paragraphs":["If you are blind or have low vision, keep it on: a screen reader is the main way to use a phone without seeing it. For long articles and books, audio files made with a text to speech engine are a handy extra; see our guide on text to speech for blind and low-vision people."]}],"faq":[{"question":"How do I turn off TalkBack quickly?","answer":"Hold both volume buttons for a few seconds, or say “Hey Google, turn off TalkBack”."},{"question":"How do I turn off TalkBack on a Samsung phone?","answer":"Hold Volume up and Volume down together for at least 3 seconds. If that does nothing, open Settings, Accessibility, TalkBack, using a tap to select and a double-tap to activate."},{"question":"Why can’t I tap anything with TalkBack on?","answer":"With TalkBack on, one tap selects an item and two taps open it. Scroll with two fingers."},{"question":"How do I turn off VoiceOver on iPhone?","answer":"Ask Siri, triple-click the side button if the Accessibility Shortcut is VoiceOver, or go to Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver using a tap to select and a double-tap to activate."},{"question":"How do I stop it turning on by accident?","answer":"Change or remove the accessibility shortcut in the accessibility settings, if nobody on the device needs it."}],"cta":{"catalog":"Browse voices","install":"Install the SuperClonica engine"},"sources":[{"label":"Google: Turn TalkBack on or off","url":"https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6007100"},{"label":"Apple: Turn on and practice VoiceOver on iPhone","url":"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-on-and-practice-voiceover-iph3e2e415f/ios"},{"label":"Apple: Quickly turn accessibility features on or off","url":"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-accessibility-shortcuts-iph3e2e31a5/ios"},{"label":"Samsung: Use TalkBack or Voice Assistant on your Galaxy device","url":"https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10002553/"},{"label":"Apple: Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback","url":"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iph96b214f0/26/ios/26"}],"published":"2026-10-31","updated":"2026-10-31","pages":[{"slug":"tv-voice-guide-off","path":"/guides/tv-voice-guide-off","h1":"How to turn off the voice guide on a TV"},{"slug":"turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","path":"/guides/turn-off-narrator-mac-chromebook-xbox","h1":"How to turn off the narrator on Mac, Chromebook and Xbox"},{"slug":"whatsapp-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/whatsapp-text-to-speech","h1":"WhatsApp text to speech: have messages read aloud, or send text as voice"},{"slug":"turn-off-caller-name-announcement","path":"/guides/turn-off-caller-name-announcement","h1":"How to stop your phone announcing who is calling"},{"slug":"iphone-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/iphone-text-to-speech","h1":"iPhone text to speech: Speak Selection and Speak Screen"},{"slug":"samsung-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/samsung-text-to-speech","h1":"Samsung text to speech: settings, voices and engine"},{"slug":"windows-narrator-voice","path":"/guides/windows-narrator-voice","h1":"Microsoft Narrator in Windows: how to turn it on or off and change its voice"},{"slug":"android-text-to-speech","path":"/guides/android-text-to-speech","h1":"Android text to speech: Select to Speak and Read aloud"},{"slug":"hyakunin-isshu-reader","path":"/guides/hyakunin-isshu-reader","h1":"Hyakunin Isshu reader: make karuta reading audio for practice"},{"slug":"ttsreader-alternative","path":"/guides/ttsreader-alternative","h1":"A TTSReader alternative that saves MP3 for free"},{"slug":"turn-off-audio-description","path":"/guides/turn-off-audio-description","h1":"How to turn off audio description on Netflix, Prime Video and your TV"},{"slug":"mute-navigation-voice","path":"/guides/mute-navigation-voice","h1":"How to turn off the voice in Google Maps, Apple Maps and Waze"}],"related":[{"slug":"text-to-speech","path":"/text-to-speech","h1":"Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer"},{"slug":"supertonic","path":"/compare/supertonic","h1":"Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner"},{"slug":"fish-audio","path":"/compare/fish-audio","h1":"Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica"},{"slug":"omnivoice","path":"/compare/omnivoice","h1":"OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed"},{"slug":"qwen3-tts","path":"/compare/qwen3-tts","h1":"Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech"},{"slug":"voxcpm","path":"/compare/voxcpm","h1":"VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed"},{"slug":"f5-tts","path":"/compare/f5-tts","h1":"F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech"},{"slug":"elevenlabs","path":"/compare/elevenlabs","h1":"An offline alternative to ElevenLabs"},{"slug":"kokoro","path":"/compare/kokoro","h1":"Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech"},{"slug":"piper","path":"/compare/piper","h1":"Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices"},{"slug":"xtts","path":"/compare/xtts","h1":"Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative"},{"slug":"chatterbox","path":"/compare/chatterbox","h1":"Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file"}]}