How to make your iPhone’s screen quit sliding down

If your iPhone’s screen keeps sliding down, seemingly whenever it wants to, by itself, this is the article for you.

Does your iPhone Mail app sometimes do this?

How about Weather? Does it sometimes do this?

It’s not the app’s fault. It’s an iPhone setting. We can change it.

The setting is in the Accessibility section. Go to the Settings app, then Accessibility, then Touch. See below.

If “Reachability” is on, turn it off. That’s all there is to it. No more screens sliding down.

The idea of Reachability is that the stuff at the top of a big iPhone is hard to reach if you’re using the iPhone one-handed. Reachability lets you “pull down” the screen by swiping down (you have to start your swipe very close to the bottom of the screen for this to work). I’m sure that is helping someone. But for most of us, the screen is just annoyingly moving down, and we don’t want it to. Turning off Reachability is the answer.

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