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Must-know vision, hearing, speech, mobility and cognitive features.
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VoiceOver
Hear detailed descriptions of what’s in view, just by asking.
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VoiceOver
For those who are blind or have low vision, VoiceOver is an industry‑leading screen reader that tells you exactly what’s happening on your screen audibly, in braille or both. Easily control and navigate your screen through simple gestures on a touchscreen, trackpad or Bluetooth® keyboard. VoiceOver also offers deep customisation options, like modifying your favourite built-in voice for speech feedback and tailoring its verbosity, speed, and accompanying sound and haptic feedback to your preferences.
VoiceOver can also describe your surroundings in great detail. VoiceOver Recognition provides descriptions of images and screen elements on webpages and apps, even if they don’t provide accessibility information. And with Live Recognition,1 you’ll get descriptions of objects in the real world, such as people, doors, text and furniture in indoor spaces.2
With Apple Intelligence,3 these essential tools become even more powerful. Image Explorer uses Apple Intelligence to give richer descriptions of images on your screen, including what’s in photographs, scanned bills, personal records and other visual content. Use the Action button on iPhone to quickly ask a question about what’s in the camera viewfinder and get a detailed response.6 You can even ask follow-up questions in your own words to get more visual information.
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for feature availability. See iOS and iPadOS for VoiceOver Live Recognition and Image Explorer availability.
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Live Listen
Amplify conversations and get captions of what you hear.
Live Listen
Live Listen helps you have conversations in loud places by picking up audio from people who are speaking from a distance, such as in a lecture hall or across a dining table. Just turn on the feature and place your device near the people who are speaking. Audio is picked up by the device’s microphone and sent to your AirPods, Beats headphones or Made for iPhone hearing devices, so you can hear what’s being said more clearly.4
Live Listen on Apple Watch works with a new set of features, including real-time Live Captions.5 When a Live Listen session is active on iPhone, you can view Live Captions of the conversation that iPhone picks up on a paired Apple Watch — or on a nearby iPhone or iPad signed into the same Apple Account — while listening along to the audio. Live Listen can be controlled from across the room with Apple Watch, so you don’t have to get up and interrupt a meeting or class to start or stop a session. Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad can serve as a remote control to jump back a few seconds to capture something you may have missed or to stop Live Listen sessions.
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS, macOS or watchOS for Live Captions availability.
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AirPods Pro 3 + Hearing Health
Take a clinical-grade Hearing Test.
AirPods Pro 3 + Hearing Health
AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods Pro 3 offer an end-to-end hearing health experience, giving you access to a Hearing Test and Loud Sound Reduction.7
Take a scientifically validated Hearing Test in the comfort of your home in about 5 minutes by pairing AirPods Pro with an iPhone or iPad.7 You’ll receive easy-to-understand results and insights into your hearing. You can customise settings — including amplification, balance and tone — to your needs. AirPods Pro also provide Loud Sound Reduction across listening modes to help prevent exposure to loud environmental noise.
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Personal Voice
Create a voice that sounds like you.
Personal Voice
If you are at risk of voice loss or have a condition that can progressively impact your voice, Personal Voice can help. It’s a simple and secure way to create a voice that sounds like you.8 Read through a series of 10 randomised phrases to record audio that can be used to generate a voice in under a minute that sounds similar to your own.9 If you have difficulty pronouncing or reading full sentences, you can even create your Personal Voice using short, three-word phrases.
Personal Voice is created on your device to keep your information private and secure. You can also save an encrypted copy of your voice to iCloud to use on your other devices. Personal Voice seamlessly integrates with Live Speech, so you can type what you want to say and have your iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch speak it aloud in the voice you created. It also works with third-party apps that you allow, such as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) apps.
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for feature availability.
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Voice Control
Say what you see to navigate your device.
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Voice Control
Navigate your device using just your voice. Commands like click, swipe and tap help you easily interact with your favourite apps. You can precisely select, drag and zoom by showing numbers alongside clickable items or by superimposing a grid on the screen. Voice Control also offers a more efficient way to write and edit. With Voice Control spelling mode, you can dictate names, addresses and even custom spellings letter by letter.10 It’s a seamless way to make corrections, format changes and transition between text dictation and commands.
With Apple Intelligence,3 Voice Control can use your natural language descriptions to take action on the screen instead of memorising exact labels or numbers.11 This option to “say what you see” by using intuitive language, like “tap the guide about best restaurants” or “tap the purple folder”, is great for navigating apps with visual layouts such as Apple Maps or Files.
If you are new to Voice Control on iPhone, iPad or Mac, the feature includes an onboarding experience with education support to help you learn the ins and outs quickly and easily. Voice Control is compatible with CarPlay, so you can control the built-in car display with voice commands too. For software developers with limited mobility, you can use Swift mode to dictate code in Xcode.
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for feature availability. CarPlay is available only in supported countries and regions.
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Accessibility Reader
Customise and summarise complex articles with ease.
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Accessibility Reader
Accessibility Reader is a systemwide reading experience designed to make text easier to read for people with a wide range of disabilities, from dyslexia to low vision. Customise long-form text and focus on content you want to read, with extensive options for font, colour and spacing, as well as built-in audio controls to read text out loud as you follow along. Accessibility Reader can be launched from any app and is built into the Magnifier app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS. It helps create a unified reading experience that’s tailored to you — with both digital text or text in the real world.
Accessibility Reader uses Apple Intelligence to clean up and format content with multiple columns, images and tables in complex materials like scientific articles.3 On-demand summaries give you the option to get an overview of the article before diving into the details. And with built-in translation, you can read text in your native language while keeping custom formatting, font and colours.
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for feature availability.
Explore our accessibility resources.
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Support Videos
Learn tips and how-tos from Apple Support on YouTube.
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Visit Apple Accessibility Support
Accessibility Support
Get help with your features or connect with an expert.
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Learn more about Assistive Technologies
Assistive Technologies
Browse third-party devices for vision, hearing and mobility.
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Learn more about Accessibility for Older Adults
Accessibility for Older Adults
Find resources to support independence and well-being.
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Learn more about Accessibility in Apple’s Workplace
Accessibility in Apple’s Workplace
Discover how Apple supports accessibility for every employee.
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Learn more about Accessibility in Education
Accessibility in Education
Explore accessibility features for your learning community.
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Learn more about Developer Guides
Developer Guides
Find resources for designing accessible apps.
Discover how accessible design makes all the difference.
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