Use TalkBack to navigate and operate your phone through responses spoken by your phone. When you touch the screen, your phone vibrates and gives you an audible response so you know what you are touching.

Follow these steps to turn Talkback on:

1. Navigate to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack.
2. Tap the switch to turn it on.
3. Read the TalkBack disclaimer and then tap OK. You'll be prompted to enable Explore by touch, which provides an audible description TalkBack of what you're touching on the screen.
   A short tutorial explaining how to use TalkBack will begin playing after you turn on TalkBack.
   
   NOTE: TalkBack works best if you turn off auto-rotate and turn on Explore by touch.

When TalkBack is on, regular touch gestures are replaced by these TalkBack gestures:

• Open an item.
  Drag your finger on the screen to find and select the item.
  Double-tap anywhere on the screen to open the item.
  
  
• Move an item.
  Drag your finger on the screen to find the item.
  Double-tap anywhere on the screen, but don't lift your finger on the second tap.
  Drag the item to a new spot and then lift your finger.
  
  
• Scroll through a screen.
  Use two fingers to swipe up, down, left or right.
  
  
• Open the Notifications panel.
  Use two fingers to swipe down from the top of the screen.

TalkBack has customizable gestures that can be used to open the Notifications panel, view recent apps, access TalkBack controls, and more. Follow these steps to customize gestures:

1. Navigate to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack > Manage gestures.
2. Tap any of the shortcut gestures, and then select an action to assign to that gesture.
   NOTE: These steps are described using the regular gestures. Use the corresponding TalkBack gestures if you already haveTalkBack turned on.
   

TalkBack has context menus for controlling continuous reading and global TalkBack controls. These menus can be accessed usingTalkBack shortcut gestures. Follow these steps to use context menu gestures:

1. Turn TalkBack on.
2. To open the continuous reading menu, use one finger to swipe up and right in one continuous movement.
3. To open the global context menu, use one finger to swipe down and right in one continuous movement.
   NOTE: If you already changed the TalkBack shortcut gestures, check your TalkBack settings for the appropriate gesture.
   
   
4. Press and hold anywhere on the screen.
5. Drag your finger around the screen to explore the options.
   NOTE: To cancel an action, drag your finger to your starting position.
   
   
6. Changing the TalkBack reading speed.
   NOTE: These steps are described using the regular gestures. Use the corresponding TalkBack gestures if you already haveTalkBack turned on.

You can customize the TalkBack reading speed to your preference. Follow these steps to change the reading speed:

1. Navigate to Settings > Accessibility > Text-to-speech output > Speech rate.
2. Select your preferred speech rate.
   You can test the speech rate by tapping Listen to an example.