Assistive touch turning on at random without any new iOS 18

I have an iPhone 14 Plus, since I updated to iOS 18 during the beta and now that’s it’s fully released I’ve been getting the issue where assistive touch and the assistive shortcut keeps turning on at random without any reason, when I move the phone or pick up it shows it’s one with the cursor going around, I always go in and turn off both assistive touch and the short cut but it keeps turning on at random

iPhone 14 Plus, iOS 26

Posted on Oct 10, 2025 3:38 AM

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Oct 12, 2025 5:53 PM in response to dariendiaz

Hi dariendiaz

welcome to this Apple (user-to-user) Community!


Re: "Assistive touch turning on at random" : "I’ve been getting the issue where assistive touch and the assistive shortcut keeps turning on at random without any reason, when I move the phone or pick up it shows it’s one with the cursor going around, I always go in and turn off both assistive touch and the short cut but it keeps turning on at random"


Thank you kindly for your post to the community. Sorry you experience difficulty with keeping Assistive Touch turned off.


If you haven't seen them already: Apple support have articles online that may be helpful:


For iOS 18: Quickly turn accessibility features on or off on iPhone - Apple Support

or

For iOS 26: Quickly turn accessibility features on or off on iPhone - Apple Support

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Else: If you think it is a bug in the software, you may want to:provide feedback to Apple's Accessibility Support Team. (You could add a link to this discussion thread if you wish).

To provide feedback about an accessibility feature on an Apple product,

you can email the Accessibility team: accessibility@apple.com.

or

If needed: See: How to contact Apple for help with accessibility features - Apple Support

All the best :-)

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