Accessibility Solutions for iPhone.
You can find a variety of hardware and software products (sold separately) that adapt iPhone for specific needs. Learn more
Hearing
The revolutionary iPhone delivers a variety of innovative features that make it easier to use by those who are deaf or have hearing disabilities.
Closed Captioning
iPhone supports the playback of open captions, closed captions, and subtitling. Captions appear onscreen just like the closed captions you see on TV. You can buy or rent captioned movies on the iTunes Store and sync them to iPhone to watch on the go. You can also create your own using a variety of tools and applications, including Compressor, one of the products in the Final Cut Studio 2 production suite (sold separately).
Instant Messaging (IM) Chat
You can download apps from the App Store (sold separately) that can keep you in touch with all your friends using web-based Internet messaging services such as AIM, MobileMe, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk, and MSN.
Chat with MMS
Using the Multimedia Message Service (MMS) application called Messages, iPhone lets you send text messages with multimedia attachments to one or more recipients at a time. You can also manage, track, and save multiple chat conversations as well.
Mono Audio
Using a simple checkbox, iPhone will route both right and left-channel audio source material into both earbuds so you can hear both channels in each ear—particularly useful for those with hearing loss in one ear.
Audible, Visible, and Vibrating Alerts
Turn the ringer on, and iPhone delivers both audible and visual alerts. You can activate alerts for phone calls, new text messages, new and sent mail, and calendar events. iPhone also offers an audio option confirming keyboard clicks. You can even set incoming calls to display a full-screen image or photo of the caller.
In silent mode, iPhone vibrates instead of playing a tone. To ensure that you never miss a notification, you can also have iPhone vibrate and play an audio alert.
Visual Voicemail
The innovative Visual Voicemail feature lets you view all your voicemail messages at once, then listen to them in the order you prefer. Use the Play/Pause button to control playback of your voice messages. The scrubber bar even lets you replay portions of a message you find hard to understand.
TTY Support
You can use iPhone in TTY mode with standard teletype machines. Use of TTY requires the iPhone TTY Adapter, sold separately on the Apple Online Store. TTY customers can obtain telephone technical support by calling Apple’s support number, 1-800-SOS-APPL, using a relay service.
