How to Control Your Phone Without Touching It

Are your hands tied or too tired to take up your phone to watch Instagram Reels or open an app? Then, you can easily control your phone without touching it using your phone’s voice assistant, motion gestures, eye-tracking, or third-party apps. If you are unsure how to do it, go through this guide.

How to Control Your Android Phone Without Touching Via Spatial Touch App

Spatial Touch is your go-to app if you’re willing to make your bedtime Instagram reels more interesting and hands-free. The app’s primary function fully relies on gestures. Using gestures, you can perform multiple actions like increasing/decreasing volume, scrolling through videos and reels, pausing, and playing your content. The gesture function of Spatial Touch works on applications like Instagram, Instagram Reels, Hulu, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, Amazon Prime, and Coupang Play.

Things to Remember Before Using the Spatial Touch App

• The Spatial Touch gestures will have authority over your mobile camera to understand your gestures. So, while using the gestures, make sure you have adequate lighting.
• The gestures will only work around 200cm from your phone camera. So, make sure to align your phone accordingly.
• Currently, users can use the Spatial Touch app for free to access its basic functions. To access the full stack of functions, you can sign up for its premium service, starting from €2.29 monthly.

Let’s see how to set up and access Spatial Touch to enable hands-free control over your mobile phone.

1. Download the Spatial Touch app from the Play Store and open the app.

2. Give the necessary permissions to the app and go to the next step.

3. Now, a small video on how to set up hand gestures will play on your mobile. Below that, you will see a small grey window.

4. After seeing this, start the gesture setup using your Forefinger first.

5. Next, use your Forefinger and Index finger for the next set of processes.

6. After you are done with the setup, close the app.

7. Now, open Instagram or any app you wish and start using hand gestures to scroll reels and control your mobile without touching it.

How to Control Android Phone Without Touching Using Motion Sense

Pixel and selected Android users can easily perform minor functions using Motion Sense settings. Using the sensors and AI features, the Motion Sense will let you perform multiple actions on your phone using hand gestures.

• Go to Settings and click the option System.
• Then, choose Motion Sense and toggle it ON.
• Also, enable Reach to Check Phone ON.

After enabling this, you can perform the following functions on your mobile using simple hand swipe and close gestures.

• Turn off or snooze Alarm. (Hand swipe Gesture)
• Play the next or previous soundtrack on music apps. (Hand swipe Gesture)
• Silence a phone call (Hand Swipe Gesture)
• Shows time and notifications from the lock screen. (Show your palm on screen)

How to Control Your iPhone Without Touching Using Eye Tracking

Eye Tracking is a popular feature released by the iPhone to make navigation and controls easier. By using the Iris of your eyes, your iPhone will detect the motions and perform the desired action without touching it. To make this work, go to Settings > Accessibility > Eye Tracking > Turn it On. Then, make sure to finish the Eye tracking setup on your mobile.

Once done, you can see a separate menu bar moving across the screen based on your eye movements. Using this, you can navigate and control your phone easily without touching it. To select an option using Eye tracking, hold your gaze on a specific option until the Dwell timer finishes.

Use Voice Commands to Control Your Phone Without Touching

The easiest way to control your phone without using any third-party app is via your phone’s Voice Assistant. Android’s Google Assistant and Siri on iPhone allow you to easily control your phone without touching it. As voice assistants have authority over multiple functions on your mobile, you can easily use them to control your mobile at your convenience. You can do the following functions using your phone’s voice assistant.

• Open Camera or any app.
• Reduce or increase the volume on your mobile.
• Play any song from your local files or music streaming apps.
• Set the alarm or reminder for you.
• Silence or pick up a call.
• Take a screenshot.

These are some supportive functions that your phone’s voice assistant can perform. Unfortunately, you can’t use your phone’s voice assistant to take control of your Instagram app.

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