Check this out: From: Rita Howells Visual description of the icons on an Apple iOS device: Rita’s iDevice Advice for June 1, 2020
Master list of the icons on an Apple iOS Device Apple’s iOS software is an extremely visual environment, with icons that VoiceOver has been programmed to describe. An icon is a picture or symbol on the screen, used to represent an application, action, or a status message. This article will attempt to describe what a sighted person sees when looking at his/her iOS and iPad OS device. Having a basic understanding of these visual concepts can help non sighted users explain and teach iOS to those who can see, as well as providing an easier means by which Voiceover users and sighted users can relate to each other with regard to the iOS interface. Please keep in mind that the descriptions presented in this document are based on initial layout, which you might see if you purchase a new iPhone or iPad and set it up as new, rather than restoring from a back-up. As you, or other people, use your device, changes may be made, additional apps may be installed, thus adding new icons, and much more. Additionally, the layout and descriptions presented here represent the current configuration as of iOS 13 and iPad OS. Much can change as new software updates are released. That said, the information in this document is subject to change or to be inaccurate. General Overview: When your Apple device is asleep, you can wake it up in one of several ways as described in the user guides, such as pressing the Home or Sleep/Wake button, or tapping/lifting your device. You are then immediately presented with the Lock Screen. This screen displays a padlock icon in the center of the screen, with the padlock either open or closed, depending on the current lock state of your device. Directly below that are the current time and date, one above the other. This Lock Screen also displays any notifications you may have received while your device was asleep. Select models also display a flash light icon in the bottom left, and a Camera icon in the bottom right. By default, devices with Face ID hide notification preview text until the device is unlocked. >From here, you can place your finger on the Home Button (devices with Touch ID), or glance at your device (Face ID devices) to unlock your iPhone or iPad. if necessary, you can slide up with one finger, using the bar at the very bottom center of the screen, to go Home. This places you on the Home Screen. The Home Screen is divided into four distinct elements. These include: - App Icons - Page Selector - Dock - Status Bar Giving special locations on the screen for the fixed elements can help sighted people find them. For example, the Status Bar is at the top of the screen and the Dock is the bar with app icons across the bottom of the screen. It displays the same app icons, no matter which Home Screen page you are on. The Page Selector is just above the Dock, and the App Icon area, located between the Status Bar and the Page Selector, is a grid of icons, representing all the apps installed on your device. The Status Bar (Top left and right of screen; not a physical bar): Many different icons can show up on the Status Bar, depending on what services you have, etc. For example, an airplane icon will replace the WiFi icon if your device is in airplane mode. LTE, 3G, 4G, 5GE, or others may show up depending on your current cellular service. There are indicators for personal hotspot, a call indicator when a call is in progress, location services icon, etc. Normally on the top left side of the Status Bar, the time is in numbers, like a Digital readout. Further to the right, the Cellular signal strength is represented by vertical bars. The stronger the signal, the more bars are represented (a maximum of 4 bars can show up). To the right of that is the Wi-Fi indicator which is two downward curved lines pointing with a dot under the two curved lines (some people call this graphic for WI-FI a Rainbow). The stronger the Wi-Fi signal, the more parts of this graphic appear filled in. At the far right is the Battery indicator which is like a double A battery lying on its side and the center is filled with the level of charge which changes as the charge is used up or replenished. Note that the Status Bar also appears at the top of the Lock Screen. App Icon Area: The majority of the Home Screen is comprised of the app icon area. This is a grid of apps, which is laid out with usually six rows (vertically) of apps with four apps (horizontally) in each row. Apps can be rearranged on the Home Screen, so that they appear in the order you prefer. You can even make folders which can store numerous apps. As new apps are installed, they most commonly appear last on the Home Screen. When you set up a new device, all Apple apps appear on the Home Screen first, followed by any third-party apps you may choose to install. Additional Home Screen pages are automatically created as needed, so that as new apps are installed, and the current Home Screen page is filled up, more pages will automatically appear. You can quickly swipe left and right between Home Screen pages (Voiceover users must swipe with three fingers), or you can use the Page Selector, to be discussed shortly. App icons on the Home Screen appear as squares with rounded corners. Every app icon is the same size - about the size of a thumbnail Each app has a background color, an actual picture symbolizing the app, and the text name of the app which appears just below the icon itself. Page Selector: The Page Selector is a series of gray dots, just above the Dock. If you have six pages of apps, then there will be six dots in a row (side by side) to show how many pages there are VoiceOver will say "Page 2 of 6". So if you are on Page 2, that page is represented by a white dot. Note that on iPhone devices, the first page of apps is actually considered page 2, because the Today View and Widgets Panel occupy Page 1. Users never automatically land on Page 1. They must use the Page Selector, or the swipe gesture, to get there. The Dock: The Dock is represented as a gray, round-cornered rectangle across the bottom of the Home Screen. On an iPhone, the Dock can support four app icons. These four icons remain the same, no matter what Home Screen page the Slider takes you to. You can change which apps appear on the Dock. The current default apps on the Dock for iPhone devices are Phone, Safari, Messages, and Music. You can move the apps on the Dock around just like other apps. The Phone app is green with a white handset of an old telephone; the Messages icon is green with a solid white speaking bubble; the Safari app is white with a compass graphic; and the Music App is a white app with a two musical eighth note graphic. General App Icon Descriptions: Please note that the following app descriptions are based solely on the native Apple apps that ship with every iPhone, as of iOS 13.5. Note also, that apps requiring special attention will contain an app badge, a red circle with a white number, at the upper right hand corner of the app icon. For example, if you have three unread messages, the Messages app will have an app badge with the number three. Some of the below apps may be in a folder called Utilities. APP Name App Color APP Description Apple Store White Blue shopping bag with white apple that has a bite taken out Apps Store Blue White capital letter A Books Orange White open book Calculator White Black calculator image Calendar White Current day of week (in red), date in numbers (in black) Camera Gray Black old fashioned Polaroid camera Clips White Blue circle with white movie camera Clock Black White face of click with current time in black analog Compass Black White compass image with cardinal directions: W, E, N, S Contacts White Circle with person image and colored tabs like an address book FaceTime Green White movie camera Files White Blue file folder Files White Blue file folder Find My Gray Green and blue circular radar Garage Band Orange White guitar image Health White Red heart symbol Home White Orange house iMovie Purple White 5 pointed with purple movie camera ITunes Store Dark pink White 5 Point Star iTunes U Orange White mortar board Keynote Blue White podium Mail Blue White envelope Maps Multicolored Interstate graphic, white directional arrowhead, in blue circle Measure Black White ruler markings with yellow horizontal dotted line Messages Green Solid white speaking bubble (like in cartoons) Music White 2 multi-colored eighth notes tied with bar News White Red striped capital letter N Notes Yellow heading White below Gray lines across Numbers Green 4 white vertical bars Pages Orange Whites slanted pencil with straight horizontal line Phone Green White old fashioned handset phone Photos White Pinwheel of primary colors Podcasts Purple Two white circles with a microphone symbol in middle Reminders White Three colored bullet points each with a gray horizontal line after them Safari White Blue compass with die final needle in white and red Settings Gray Dark gray gear wheel Shortcuts Black Red and blue squares on top of each with space in between Stocks Black White horizontal graphic line with blue vertical line with blue dot TV Black White apple with word TV in white Voice Memos Black Red and white vertical sound wave lines Wallet Black Multi-colored rectangle with rows representing credit card slots Watch Black White watch - side view Weather Blue White cloud with partial sunshine behind it Notification Center: white header style letters “Notification Center”. In the Settings app, the Notification icon is red and within it is a white rounded corner square outline with a white ball at the right top corner. However, in the Notification Center, each notification will be a gray rectangle with rounded corners, and the icon within at the top left of the rectangle will look like whatever app is sending the notification. Control Center: You can add other app icons to this area, so you may run across someone’s phone that is setup a little differently. By default, there are two black round- cornered squares side by side, near the top, with icons in them. The one on the left has four icons, two on top and two below. In the top left is the Airplane mode icon. It is a gray circle with a white small airplane. In the top right is the Cellular data icon. It is a green circle with a graphic that resembles a small radio tower. In the bottom left of the square is the WiFi icon. In the bottom right is the Bluetooth icon. It is based on the shape of the Viking Rune letters, H&B, which stands for Harald Bluetooth, a Viking King. It resembles somewhat a small butterfly paperclip lying on its side or a small bow on its side. The square on the right is the Music App and has a white Play button arrow in the middle and gray left rewind and gray right fast forward buttons on the right. In that top right corner of that app is the airplay icon which looks like a target of white circles with a gray tiny triangle at the bottom and within the circles. Below the large square on the left are two small icons. On the left is the Screen Orientation Lock. It is black with a white small padlock symbol and a white partial arrow circling around it. To the right of that is the Do Not Disturb icon. It is white with a gray quarter moon symbol. Below that is a small black round-cornered rectangle, Screen Mirroring app. It has two small white outlined rectangles overlapping each other and the words, Screen Mirroring. To the right of those apps are two long black narrow vertical slider apps. The one on the left controls the screen brightness. The slider is white and has a small gray sun symbol on it. To the right of that is the black volume control. The slider is white and has a small speaker symbol on it. Below that, from left to right on most iPhones, are four apps. All are black with white graphics representing each app: but the flashlight app, a timer app (has a partial circle outline with a needle point to the 10 o'clock position), a calculator app (image resembles a calculator), and a camera app (image looks like a camera). Below that at the bottom, left to right are three additional apps. All are black with white graphics representing each app: The Home app (looks like a house nested within a house), low power mode icon (looks like a AA battery on its side), and the QR Code app (looks like four corner brackets with 4 small squares inside). Other Common Icons Within iOS Apps: Many Apple apps, and even a variety of third-party apps, conform to standard implementations of common icons, such as Back, Share, and Cancel, just to name a few. Learning what these icons look like can help you to recognize them, thus enhancing the ability to learn and use new apps. Back button: a left pointing arrow. Share option: a rectangle with an up-pointing arrow, or three dots. Attachments: a paper clip More option: a circle with 3 dots in the middle Edit: the word Edit in a square Add: the plus sign Cancel: the word Cancel Search: gray long round cornered rectangle with gray outline of magnifying glass, the gray word Search, and a gray microphone --- Here is another version of this document: Master list of the icons on an Apple iOS Device The iPhone is a very visual environment, with icons that VoiceOver has been programmed to describe the picture type symbols on the screen. The main Home Screen is in 4 distinct elements: Giving special locations on the screen for the fixed elements can help sighted people find them. For example, the Status Bar is at the top of the screen and the Doc is the bar with icons across the bottom of the screen. The Page Selector is just above the Doc bar and the Grid of Apps is the all the icons between the Status Bar and the Page Selector. The Status Bar, the Grid of Apps, the Page Selector, and the Doc. The Status Bar... Bear in mind that there are many different icons that can show up on the Status Bar depending on what services you have, etc, For example a airplane icon will replace the WiFi icon if you have it in airplane mode. LTE or 3G, 4G, 5Ge or others may show up depending on the type of cell service you have or the area you are. There are indicators for personal hotspot, a call indicator when you get a call, location services icon, etc. Normally on the left side of the Status Bar, the time is in numbers, like a LED readout. Further to the right, the Cellular signal strength bars look like straight up and down bars and there is a possible 4 bars that can show up. To the right of that is the Wi-Fi indicator which is two curved lines pointing down and a dot under the two curved lines, possible, (some people call this graphic for WI-FI as a Rainbow). At the far right is the Battery indicator which is like a double A battery lying on its side and the center is filled with the level of charge which changes as the charge is used up or replenished The grid of apps is laid out with usually 4 apps across and 6 lines down. The Page Selector is a series of gray dots, just above the Doc. If you have 6 pages of apps: then there will be six dots in a row (side by side) to show how many pages there are. VoiceOver will say "Page 2 of 6". So if you are on Page 2, that page is represented by a white dot. The Doc apps... Remember the apps that are normally on the Doc mention are the default. They can be changed either accidently or on purpose if someone says theirs are different. You can move the apps on the Doc around just like other apps. The Phone app is the handset of an old telephone, the Mail icon is an envelope graphic, the Safari app is a compass graphic, and the Music App is a musical note graphic. Back button = a left pointing arrow. The Share option = a rectangle with an up pointing arrow, or 3 dots. Attachments = a paper clip More option = a circle with 3 dots in the middle Search = a magnifying glass as its icon Edit =the word Edit in a square Add = the plus sign Cancel = the word Cancel The Lock Screen = a padlock Visually, the Lock Screen shows the Status Bar at the top, however, in the far left where the time normally is, is the name of your cellular carrier. The rest of the status bar icons are normal. Just below those in the center of the screen is a padlock icon showing the padlock either open or closed depending on the lock state of your phone. Just below that is the time in very large numbers and below that is the current Day, Month and Date. There may be various notifications below that depending on how your notifications are setup. Near the bottom on the left side is a flashlight shape icon and on the right side is a camera symbol icon. At the very bottom in the middle is the Swipe bar that you swipe up to unlock the phone. --- The health app = a white box with a heart symbol The camera app = an old fashion rectangle black box with a white circle for the lens The Photos App = a Pinwheel showing the primary colors The Apple apps app = a big letter a There are two Apple apps which can be confusing to newbie's. There is the Apps Store app which is the big letter A and there is an Apple Store app which is like a shopping bag with the Apple symbol in the middle. The Apple symbol looks like an apple with a bite taken out of the right side.) Contacts App = a circle with a body representation inside the circle Messages App = a green background with a cartoon speaking solid white bubble Calendar App = a solid white background with the current day of the week depicted in red letters, and the date in numbers in black numeric display Settings App = a gray background with a gear wheel Reminders App = a white background colored representing bulleted points with a line across Notes App = yellow heading, with 4 sections with lines like on a sheet of paper Apple Native Weather App = a blue background and has a Sun partially covered by a cloud FaceTime = a green background symbol of a movie camera Maps App = an interstate Sign with an image of arrow head pointing directionally Voice Memos App = a sound time line depiction Find My App = a gray background with circular radar depiction showing it searching Books App = orange background with an open book Files App = a white background with a blue file folder TV App = a black background with the white Apple logo, with the TV letters in white ---Notification Center = white banner style letters for Notifications. In the Settings app, the Notification icon looks like a small rounded corner box outline with a ball for a right top corner. However, in the Notification Center, each notification icon will look like whatever app is sending the notification. Control Center = ...(You can add others app icons to this area, so you may run across someone’s phone is setup a little differently. By default, there are two square boxes near the top with icons in them. The one on the left has 4 icons, two on top and two below. In the top left is the Airplane mode icon that looks like a small airplane. In the top right is the Cellular data icon and resembles a small radio tower. In the bottom left of the box is the WiFi icon. In the bottom right is the Bluetooth icon. It is based on the shape of the Viking Rune letters, H&B, which stands for Harald Bluethooth, a Viking King. It resembles somewhat a small butterfly paperclip lying on its side or a small bow on its side. The box on the right is the Music App and has a Play button arrow in the middle and left rewind and right fast forward buttons on the right. Below the box on the left are two small icons. On the left is the screen orientation lock. It is a small padlock symbol with a partial arrow circle around it. To the right of that is the Do Not Disturb icon. It looks like a quarter moon symbol. Below that is a small but long, Screen Mirroring app. It has a small rectangle superimposed over another one and the words, screen mirroring. To the right of those apps are two long skinny vertical slider apps. The one on the left is controls the screen brightness(has a small sun symbol on it.) To the right of that is the volume slider and has a small speaker symbol on it. Below that from left to right on most iPhones, is 4 apps. A flashlight app a timer app (has a partial hollow circle with a needle point to the 10 o'clock position), a calculator app (image resembles a calculator), and a camera app (image looks like a camera). Below that at the bottom, left to right are 3 apps. The Home app (Looks like a house nested within a house), The battery app (like a AA battery on its side) and the QR Code app (looks like 4 corner brackets with 4 small squares inside. Airplane mode = a circle with an airplane inside the circle Cellular = curved bars showing signal strength Wi-FI = 2 downward curved lines with a dot at the bottom, under the two curved lines BlueTooth symbol = the Registered BlueTooth Logo, which is the capital letter B with half of the letter X overlaid, on the left side Flashlight = an old fashioned flashlight lying on its side (sometimes the flashlight icon is vertical.) Timer = incomplete clock face with one pointer hand Calculator = a black background with an image of a calculator Stay safe & take care. Mike. Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say: "Close Enough!" ----- Original Message ----- From: Mich Verrier To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2021 4:38 AM Subject: question has any one come up with a cheet sheet or resorse that describes what the icons on the i phone screen meen? Hi all. Yesterday I was trying to help my Dad with his I phone he needed to change his password on facebook after getting hacked. I tried to get vo running but couldn’t. I asked him to describe what was on the screen and he was describing things to me that I had no idea like for instince a sercle with a little tale on it and icons like that. then after having a chatt with some friends they told me that the edit icon is apencel and things like that. that got me to thinking I wonder if any one has come out with a rezorce or cheet sheet describing what the icons on the screen are vishuley? For instince edit equals a pencel and stuff like that since I realised that for those of us who are blind and who use vo vo will describe the different things as far as what they do like settings edit etc but I for one and I am shure others have no idea that for the sighted that the icons don’t say those things and that they are pictures. So I am wondering if there is sutch a thing out there. From Mich. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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