Apple Accessibility

The best technology is designed with everyone in mind. That’s why our products and services have built-in features to help you create, connect, and do what you love, your way. Our long-standing commitment to accessibility is fundamental to everything we do. Must-know vision, hearing, speech, mobility, and cognitive features. - Magnifier Zoom in on the details, right from your Mac. Magnifier Magnifier works like a digital magnifying glass. It uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad to increase the size of any physical object you point it at, like a menu or sign, so you can see all the details clearly on your screen. Use the flashlight or LED flash to light the object, adjust filters to differentiate colors, or freeze a specific frame for a static close-up. On Mac, the Magnifier app connects to an attached camera so you can zoom in on your surroundings, such as a screen or whiteboard. Magnifier works with Continuity Camera on iPhone as well as attached USB cameras. It also supports reading documents using Desk View. With multiple live session windows, you can multitask by viewing a presentation with a webcam while simultaneously following along in a book using Desk View. With customized views, you can adjust brightness, contrast, color filters, and even perspective to make text and images easier to see. Views can also be captured, grouped, and saved to add later on. With Reader Mode, Accessibility Reader integrates with Magnifier so you can seamlessly interact with text in the real world, such as in books or on dining menus. Temporarily capture a frame that contains text and adjust the font, size, and color of the text to your liking. Get guidance on framing a document and adjusting the perspective before viewing it in Reader Mode, with audible prompts to help make sure the full document is in camera view. Reader Mode works with features like Speak Screen or Speak Selection, so you can have the text you’re viewing read out loud. - 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.1 Live Listen on Apple Watch works with a new set of features, including real-time Live Captions. 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, 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. Set up Live Listen on: - AirPods Pro 3 + Hearing Health Set up a clinical-grade Hearing Aid feature. AirPods Pro 3 + Hearing Health AirPods Pro offer an end-to-end hearing health experience, giving you access to a Hearing Test, a clinical-grade Hearing Aid feature, and active Hearing Protection.2 Take a scientifically validated Hearing Test in the comfort of your home in about five minutes by pairing AirPods Pro with an iPhone or iPad.2 You’ll receive easy-to-understand results and insights into your hearing. The clinical-grade Hearing Aid feature can help those with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss.2 It makes adjustments that improve the clarity of voices and sounds around you. You can even customize settings — including amplification, balance, and tone — to your needs. AirPods Pro also provide active Hearing Protection across listening modes to help prevent exposure to loud environmental noise.3 Set up Hearing Health on: Watch Apple Support videos on YouTube: How to take a Hearing Test and turn on the Hearing Aid feature, opens in new tab - 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.4 Read through a series of 10 randomized phrases to record audio that can be used to generate a voice that sounds similar to your own.5 Using advances in on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence, Personal Voice is faster, easier, and more powerful, so you can create a smoother, more natural-sounding voice in less than a minute. 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.