Here is a post from Rita Howells on the TTJ list.
Explanation of an Apple iPhone Home Screen in iOS 15: Rita's iDevice Advice for October 18, 2021 Home Screen in iOS 15 Standard iPhone gestures such as a swipe up from the bottom to go to the Home Screen or App Switcher are augmented for VoiceOver users by providing additional haptics and audio feedback. The iPhone X and the later models do not have a Home button. Touch Gestures replacing function of the Home button: Starting at the bottom of the screen and slide one finger up. You will feel three haptic vibrations referred to as "clicks" (similar to the old "click" when pressing the Home button). Each of these three clicks will activate a function. Note: The first click alerts you that you are in the feature. Swipe up gestures: To go home, swipe up, about 1/3rd of the way up, the screen with one finger until you feel the first vibration. To go to the app switcher, swipe up, about half of the way up the screen, with one finger until you feel a 2nd vibration. When your Apple device is asleep, you can wake it up in one of several ways, such as pressing the Home or Side button, or tapping or 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 the 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. To open your iPhone, you can place your finger on the Home Button (devices with Touch ID), or glance at your device (with Face ID if this feature is available). To unlock your iPhone or iPad. 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 5 distinct elements. These include: Status Bar App Icons Page Selector Dock Widgets, if enabled the Status Bar is at the top of the screen, and the Dock is located at the bottom of the screen, with app icons across the bottom. The Dock displays the same app icons, no matter which Home Screen page you are on.. 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 Page Selector is just above the Dock. The Status Bar: (Top left and right of screen; This is 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. 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. 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". If you are on Page 2, that page is represented by a white dot. 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 selector takes you. 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. Widgets: By enabling widgets, you get timely information from your favorite apps at a glance. you can use widgets on your Home Screen to keep your favorite information at your fingertips. Or you can use widgets from Today View by swiping right from the Home Screen or Lock Screen. When you turn on, and unlock an iOS device, you will be placed on the Home Screen, a grid of apps that can span multiple pages. If VoiceOver is on, moving a finger around the screen should cause it to speak what that finger is touching. To open an app, move a finger to it, lift your finger, and then tap the screen twice quickly. 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