Support
Getting started
Choose Play to begin, or How to Play for the guide. The helicopter waits for your first input before pipes start appearing. Settings offers Gentle, Standard, and Challenge difficulty.
Making play more comfortable
No-Fail Mode lets you keep flying after collisions. Calm Mode removes collision sounds and vibration. You can set Background Scroll to Still, turn music and sound effects on or off, hide the score, and change colours in Settings. Choose the menu theme in the Hangar, on the Home screen. When Settings is locked, the Hangar is locked too.
Switch controls
Space or Enter starts scanning or selects the highlighted item. Settings → Menu Scan Mode offers two ways to scan. With Timed, wait until the item you want is highlighted, then select it. With Step with Switch 2, press 2 to move to the next item and your primary switch to select. Selecting a slider opens Decrease, Increase, and Done.
For flight, In-Game Control → Up/Down Switches lets you hold your primary switch to rise and switch 2 to descend. In Auto Hover and Up/Down Switches, you can also touch above the middle of the screen to move up and below it to move down.
To pause, tap Pause at the top of the screen, or use your switches:
- Tap to Flap and Hold to Hover: press switch 2, or hold your primary switch for 3 seconds.
- Auto Hover: hold your primary switch for 3 seconds.
- Up/Down Switches: hold both switches together for half a second.
Release your switches before choosing a menu item. You can change the hold time with Hold Switch to Pause in Settings, or turn Pause by Holding Switch off if you pause by accident.
VoiceOver and larger text
With VoiceOver Direct Touch on (the default), touch the lower half of the game to fly straight away, with no double-tap. In Auto Hover and Up/Down Switches, the top half moves up and the bottom half moves down. The Pause button stays at the top of the screen. If you turn VoiceOver Direct Touch off in Settings, focus "Helicopter flight control" (or "Fly up" and "Fly down") and double-tap to fly; use its Pause action or the escape gesture to pause. Spoken gap guidance is given every few seconds. Text follows Larger Text in iOS Accessibility settings.
Restoring settings
Open Settings → Reset Settings. Cancel keeps your setup; Restore Defaults returns to Standard difficulty, the default controls and audio, the Night Sky menu theme, and the Classic helicopter and pipes. Scores and guide completion are kept. If Settings is locked, turn off Lock Settings first.
Contact
Email helichopter.support@gmail.com. Please include your device model, iOS version, app version, and a short description of what happened. For accessibility issues, mention the input method or assistive feature you were using if you're comfortable sharing it.