Device Settings

To use Rivo properly, the following settings are required or recommended on the smartphone.

1. Settings / Accessibility / Keyboards

Turn off the Stick Keys and Slow Keys.

2. Settings / Accessibility / VoiceOver / Typing / Modifier Keys

Select Control + Option.

3. Settings / Accessibility / VoiceOver / Typing / Typing Feedback

Select "Characters and Words" for Hardware Keyboards.

4. Settings / Accessibility / VoiceOver / Audio

Select the Left and Right in both the Speech and Sound Channels for Rivo.
These items will appear when Rivo is connected in Audio mode by pressing the AUDIO side button.

5. Settings / General / Keyboard / Dictation Shortcut

Select None.
Otherwise, you may experience Siri or dictation is activated randomly while using Rivo.

1. Settings / Accessibility / VoiceOver / Audio / VoiceOver Sounds & Haptics

Turn Sounds on and Haptics off.

2. Settings / Accessibility / VoiceOver / Speech

Turn Pitch Change off.

3. Settings / Accessibility / Touch

Turn Shake to Undo off.

4. Settings / Display & Brightness

Turn Raise to Wake off.

5. Settings / General / Keyboard / Hardware Keyboard

Turn these off: Auto-Capitalization, Auto-Correction, Caps Lock Language Switch.
The Hardware Keyboard menu appears when Rivo is connected, and the Caps Lock Language Switch item appears when more than one keyboard is selected in General / Keyboard / Keyboards.

6. Control Center

Turn Lock Rotation on.

Since there are many Android versions, models, and manufacturers, the following settings may vary slightly depending on your device.

1. Settings / Accessibility / TalkBack / Settings / Advanced settings / Keyboard shortcuts / Choose a keymap

Select "Default keymap".

2. Settings / Accessibility / TalkBack

Adjust options for TalkBack according to your preference and needs.

3. Settings / Accessibility / Accessibility shortcut

Enable Accessibility shortcut service and select Talkback.
Then, you may press and hold both volume buttons to turn TalkBack on or off.

4. If the navigation commands do not work as described in the manual despite the above settings, you may need to change the default keyboard to “Gboard” as shown below:

Find and install the "Gboard - Google Keyboard" app on the Google Play Store.
Move to Settings / System / Languages & input / On-screen keyboard.
Enable Gboard.

On some Android models, you may also need to do something like below:
Move to Settings / General management / Keyboard list and default / Default keyboard.
Choose Gboard as the input method.