Accessibility Features

Braille Access is a braille-first experience that turns iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro into a full-featured braille notetaker that’s deeply integrated into the Apple ecosystem. With a built-in app launcher, you can easily open any app by typing with a connected braille device. You can open Braille Ready Format (BRF) files directly from Braille Access, unlocking a wide range of books and files previously created on a braille note-taking device. Quickly take notes in braille format and perform calculations using Nemeth Braille or UEB Math, two braille codes often used in classrooms for math and science. And an integrated form of Live Captions lets you transcribe conversations in real time directly on braille displays.⁶

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. Customize long-form text and focus on content you want to read, with extensive options for font, color, 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 and 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 colors.

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.

When you want to use iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro while a passenger in a moving vehicle, Vehicle Motion Cues can help reduce motion sickness.⁸ Using sensors built into your device, dots appear on your screen and move with the motion of the vehicle to reduce sensory conflict — a common cause of motion sickness. These dots are designed to remain on the sides of your screen to avoid interfering with any content. Vehicle Motion Cues can be turned on manually in Control Center or automatically on iPhone when it senses vehicle motion. You can also customize the color, size, number, and pattern of the animated onscreen dots.

Zoom is a screen magnifier that lets you enlarge the content you see on your device. Choose Full Screen Zoom to magnify the entire screen, or Window Zoom to magnify only part of the screen with a resizable lens.¹¹ Follow Focus tracks your selections, the text insertion point, and your typing. Smart Typing magnifies the text area and keeps the keyboard unmagnified while typing. With Zoom Filters, you can apply Inverted, Grayscale, Grayscale Inverted, or Low Light to the magnified area.

Zoom also works with VoiceOver, so you can more clearly see and hear what’s happening on your screen. Split Screen Zoom on Mac lets you see content up close and at a distance simultaneously. And if you’re using Zoom on multiple displays with macOS, you can set a different zoom level for each display.

If you have low vision, the advanced camera system on Apple Vision Pro helps make visionOS more accessible. Zoom can magnify everything in your view — including your surroundings — using the main camera.

Hover Text makes it easier to view text on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac or while you’re watching Apple TV content. If a paragraph, text box, caption, or footnote is too small to read, just hover over it with your pointer or Apple Pencil and press the activation key for a bigger, higher‑resolution version of your selection.¹² You can even choose the fonts and colors that work best for you. Hover Color on iPhone, iPad, or Mac helps those who have color vision deficiencies or low vision decipher the color beneath their pointer by translating color pixels into simple-to-understand color names. With Hover Typing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, you can see larger text when you’re typing in a text field — in your preferred font and text color, too.

Audio Descriptions provide spoken narration of important visual content in movies and TV shows on many of your devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Just check for the AD icon under the movie title on the Apple TV app or on the iTunes Store.

A shortcut is a quick way to get one or more tasks done with your apps using just a tap or by asking Siri. Shortcuts can automate a variety of things, like getting directions to the next event on your calendar or moving text from one app to another. You can use the Shortcuts app to add ready-made or custom shortcuts to your devices. Once you create a shortcut, just activate Siri, then say the shortcut’s name to run it. Siri can also suggest simple useful shortcuts based on your app usage. With intelligent actions in Shortcuts, you can summarize text, create images, or tap directly into Apple Intelligence models to provide responses that feed into your shortcut.³ You can also describe the task you want done and Shortcuts uses Apple Intelligence to assemble the required steps for you. If you need to tweak or add to your shortcut, simply describe the change and Shortcuts will make adjustments.

The Shortcuts app Gallery features Shortcuts for Accessibility — a curated collection of ready-to-use tools that support a wide range of needs. Shortcuts for features like VoiceOver and AssistiveTouch let you quickly toggle them on and off. If you have short-term memory loss, you can use Remember This to log what happens throughout the day. The Hold That Thought shortcut prompts you to capture and recall information in a note so interruptions don’t derail your flow. Or run the In Case of Emergency shortcut to send your location to your chosen emergency contacts, share a message with custom instructions, and display a message of your choice onscreen for first responders to see.

There’s even an Accessibility Assistant shortcut, which can provide personalized guidance on which built-in accessibility features can help you or a loved one. Answer a series of questions about your needs, and the Accessibility Assistant will create a Notes document with a list of recommended accessibility features and Apple Support links.

This feature can help you quickly and temporarily share your accessibility settings with another iPhone or iPad. It can be useful when borrowing a friend’s device or using a public kiosk in a setting like a café. Easily share settings for features that support visual accommodations, like Increase Contrast or Reduce Motion. Or share Touch Accommodations to support your unique taps and touches on another device.

Your device can alert you in a way you’ll notice. Choose visual or vibrating alerts for incoming Phone and FaceTime calls, new text messages, new and sent mail, and calendar events. With iPhone and iPad, you can set your screen, the LED light, or both to flash for incoming calls. If you’re on your Mac, have it flash its screen when an app needs your attention. You can also turn on haptics to vibrate when Face ID successfully unlocks, authorizes Apple Pay, or verifies a purchase.

Apple Watch lets you adjust the strength of the taps and vibrations that it uses for alerts and notifications. You can even add an extra haptic tap that pre-announces your other haptic alerts. Turn on Crown Haptics to get haptic feedback when you turn the Digital Crown to scroll. The Taptic Time feature gives those who are blind or have low vision another way to tell time without anyone else hearing it.

If you’re Deaf or hard of hearing, closed captions and subtitles offer real-time transcriptions so you can follow along more easily with audio and video. Closed captions are text transcriptions displayed onscreen in sync with a video’s dialogue and action. In addition to transcribing speech in a scene, they capture nonverbal communication, music, and sound effects. Supported in apps like the Apple TV app, closed captions are available in more than 40 languages for movies, TV shows, videos, and podcasts — just look for the CC icon. You can customize captions with different styles and fonts, including styles that are larger and outlined for better legibility.

While captions or transcriptions often already exist for movies, shows, and podcasts, subtitles for spoken dialogue are rarely available for personal videos, content shared by friends and family, and other media. With new generated subtitles, videos can display automatic transcriptions of spoken audio when captions or subtitles are not already provided. This includes clips recorded on iPhone, received from friends and family, or streamed online. With on-device speech recognition, subtitles are generated privately. You can customize the appearance of your subtitles in the video playback menu or in Settings.¹³

AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods Pro 3 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.¹⁴

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.¹⁴ 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.¹⁴ It makes adjustments that improve the clarity of voices and sounds around you. You can 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.¹⁵

If you are Deaf or hard of hearing or prefer reading text to help you understand and communicate more clearly, Live Captions can help. Live Captions offer real-time, on-device-generated transcriptions of conversations so you can follow along securely on your device.⁶ You can turn on Live Captions in your Phone calls, FaceTime calls, or any web content you’re browsing. They can even capture and caption live, in-person speech through the microphone in your device. If you use a braille display with VoiceOver, you can use Live Captions to get real-time captioning of spoken audio. You can customize the Live Captions window, adjusting the size, placement, fonts, and colors to suit your needs.¹⁶ Live Captions also work with Apple Vision Pro, so you can follow along with spoken dialogue in live conversations on FaceTime as well as audio from apps systemwide. During Live Listen sessions, you can view Live Captions on a paired Apple Watch or on a nearby iPhone or iPad signed in to the same Apple Account.

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.

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.¹⁷

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 in to 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.

Apple has worked with top manufacturers to create hearing aids, cochlear implants, and sound processors designed specifically for Apple devices. These advanced hearing devices provide outstanding sound quality, offer many helpful features, pair and hand off seamlessly between Apple devices, and are as easy to set up and use as any other Bluetooth device. Instantly apply your audiologist’s environmental presets as you go outdoors or enter noisy locations, like restaurants, without having to rely on additional remotes. When using Made for iPhone hearing devices, you can also have Siri announce notifications from your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro.

Music Haptics is a way for those who are Deaf or hard of hearing to experience music. It syncs the iPhone Taptic Engine — which creates your device’s vibrations — with the rhythm of songs so you can enjoy music with taps, textures, and refined haptics.¹⁸ Customize Music Haptics to experience haptics for vocals and accompaniment or for vocals only. You can also adjust the overall intensity of the taps, textures, and vibrations. Music Haptics works with millions of songs across Apple Music, Apple Music Classical, Shazam, and compatible third-party apps when your iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi or cellular.

Sound Recognition listens for certain sounds and uses on‑device intelligence to notify you when they are detected.¹⁹ This feature recognizes 15 different sounds — or you can train your device to listen for your name, as well as electronic sounds that are unique to your environment, like the beeping of appliances in your kitchen, specific types of alarms, or doorbells.²⁰ On HomePod, Sound Recognition can also detect the sound of a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm. Sound Recognition supports CarPlay, too. Your iPhone will listen for and detect sirens and horns and even the sound of a crying baby. You’ll receive a notification — onscreen in your car if you’re using CarPlay — when a particular sound is detected.²¹

Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for Sound and Name Recognition availability.

Background Sounds are ambient sounds that can help minimize distractions and increase your sense of focus and calm, which can help users with tinnitus. Choose from balanced, bright, and dark noise and ocean, rain, and other soundscapes to continuously play in the background and avoid interruptions from environmental noise. These sounds can also mix into or duck under other audio and system sounds that are playing through your device.

You can also personalize Background Sounds with equalizer settings. Adjust the pitch of any given sound to increase your comfort. Or minimize distractions around sounds, like the chatter of a noisy train terminal. Additional settings give you the option to set a timer for your selected sound, or you can control Background Sounds with personal automation in the Shortcuts app.²²

Use your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch to make and receive RTT calls.²³ Standard texting involves composing an entire message and tapping Send, but RTT provides instant transmission of a message as it is being composed. Live Captions can be used with RTT to automatically display captions during Phone calls. RTT integrates with Live Translation so you can get captions for translated calls in the Phone app. It also works with Call Screening, which automatically asks unknown callers to share their name and reason for calling so you can decide whether you want to pick up. RTT can be used with a TTY (teletypewriter) device. Transcripts for RTT calls are saved in your call history.

Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for Live Translation in Phone and FaceTime availability. See iOS and iPadOS or macOS for Call Screening availability.

With the Noise app, you can have notifications alert you when your Apple Watch identifies sound levels in your environment that could affect your hearing. Apple Watch periodically measures the sound levels throughout the day while you’re wearing your watch. This uses the microphone but does not record or save any sounds. If the average sound level over three minutes reaches or exceeds a chosen decibel threshold, your Apple Watch can notify you.

When you configure the Noise app on Apple Watch and connect compatible headphones, Control Center notifies you if the sounds playing through the headphones reach unsafe levels. And all your information is stored in the Health app on iPhone for easy access to your data whenever you need it.

Use voice or text to have Siri help you complete the tasks you do every day — or just answer questions you’re curious about.²⁴ Ask Siri, or use Type to Siri, to find definitions, set reminders, run custom shortcuts, turn features on or off, and more. Made for iPhone hearing devices can use Siri to announce notifications on iPhone and iPad. Adjust how fast Siri speaks so responses are easier to follow. If you have a speech disability, Siri can listen for atypical speech.²⁵ And Siri Pause Time lets you adjust the amount of time Siri waits before responding, so you can speak comfortably at your own pace without worrying about being interrupted.

On devices that support Apple Intelligence, communicating with Siri is now even more natural.³ If you change your mind mid-sentence, Siri can follow right along. And once you activate Siri, you can make multiple requests back to back without needing to say “Siri” repeatedly.

Siri AI understands your personal context and can take actions in apps like Messages, Music, and Reminders based on what you’re doing in the moment.³ Ask open-ended questions, brainstorm ideas, and have natural back-and-forth conversations. Pick a voice and customize its expressivity and tone to match how you want Siri to sound.²⁶ Siri AI can also generate a draft from scratch or give feedback on what you’ve written — just describe what you need in your own words. And in Messages and Mail, it can match your writing style, punctuation, and tone — so you sound like you. With a dedicated app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, you can bring all your conversations together in one place.

Siri AI also brings Visual Intelligence to Camera with a new Siri mode, so you can ask questions and take action on information in images with just a tap.³ Ask Siri about virtually anything on your display with a screenshot. Get nutritional insights, add a date to your calendar, or split the bill — just tap the item with your finger or circle it with Apple Pencil to do more.

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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If you are unable to speak, have a speech disability, or prefer to communicate without your voice, you can use Live Speech to type what you want to say and have your device speak it out loud.²⁷ Live Speech can help you generate real-time responses to stay connected during Phone and FaceTime calls as well as in-person conversations. You can also save commonly used phrases to help you easily respond during daily interactions and conversations. For example, you can create a Coffee Shop category to group phrases you frequently use, such as “I’d like to order a tea” or “May I have cream and sugar with that?” Live Speech even allows the audio from apps to be audible in voice and video calls, which can be helpful if you use apps that assist with speaking and communication. You can choose from dozens of system voices or use a Personal Voice that you create.²⁸

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 feature availability.

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.²⁸ Read through a series of 10 randomized phrases to record audio that can be used to generate a voice in under a minute that sounds similar to your own.²⁹ 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, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro 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.

Use Vocal Shortcuts to teach your device to perform an action when you speak a word or another sound of your choosing.³⁰ If you have moderate to severe atypical speech, you can use unique pronunciations and utterances to activate shortcuts and complete complex tasks. Use a custom phrase to run automations at home like turning off the lights and locking all your doors at once. Up to 50 commands can be saved on your device. Vocal Shortcuts uses on-device machine learning to recognize your speech patterns. This occurs entirely and securely on your device and isn’t shared with Apple.

Switch Control makes it easy and efficient to control your device with a variety of adaptive switch hardware, wireless game controllers, tapping the screen, head and hand gestures, AirPods gestures, Back Tap, or even simple sounds like a click, a pop, or an “ee.” Use item, gliding cursor, and manual scanning to navigate sequentially through onscreen keyboards, menus, and the Dock. Create your own custom panels and keyboards systemwide or app by app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

Switch Control works with QuickPath when typing on iPhone and Apple Vision Pro. Alternative pointer actions let you use keyboard shortcuts, assistive switches, or facial expressions to perform mouse actions such as left, right, or double click or other custom actions to suit your needs. With Use Other Devices for Switch Control, you can use a single device to remotely control any other Apple devices you have synced with your Apple Account on the same Wi-Fi network. Make combinations that work for you — control your iPad, Mac, or Apple TV device directly from your iPhone, or control an iPhone, Mac, or Apple TV from your iPad without having to set up your switches on each new device.³¹ You can also create and switch between different user profiles or settings for time-specific needs. Change settings based on your location, time of day, energy levels, and more.

With Apple Watch Mirroring, you can use assistive features like Switch Control to fully control your Apple Watch from your iPhone.³² And gaming is even easier with Switch Control — the same switch or sound actions you use to navigate and control your iPhone and iPad can be turned into a game controller.

Navigate your device using just your voice. Commands like click, swipe, and tap help you easily interact with your favorite 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.³³ 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 memorizing exact labels or numbers.³⁴ 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.

There are many ways to navigate and control your devices without using your hands or fingers. Head Tracking uses the camera on your device to follow the movement of your head to control a pointer on your screen, and it tracks your facial movements to perform actions.³⁵ Use Dwell Control to navigate through different apps and interact with controls by keeping your head fixed on them for a selected amount of time. You can also perform actions with specific facial gestures like raising your eyebrows, opening your mouth, or smiling. Head Tracking integrates with AssistiveTouch so you can access additional functions such as physical buttons and swipes. You can even customize how the Head Tracking pointer responds to your head’s movements so you can “snap to items” on the screen, making it easier for you to quickly make selections.

Pointer Control on Mac lets you use different methods, like head movements, to control your pointer and mouse or trackpad button. You can set options to specify the way the pointer moves, how fast it moves, which switches to use for head pointer actions, and which camera to use.

If you have reduced mobility or need to interact with your device without using your hands, you can navigate iPhone and iPad with just your eyes. Use the front-facing camera to set up and calibrate Eye Tracking in seconds, with Face Guidance to help you with optimal positioning. And thanks to on-device machine learning, all data used to set up and control this feature is kept securely on your device and isn’t shared with Apple. Eye Tracking works with iOS and iPadOS apps and doesn’t require additional hardware or accessories.³⁶

To help you navigate through different apps, you can use Dwell Control, which enables you to interact with controls by using your eyes. On Apple Vision Pro, Dwell Control makes it easier to perform actions by navigating visionOS exclusively with your eyes — hold your gaze on controls for a selected amount of time or use a quick upward glance to interact. Together with AssistiveTouch, Eye Tracking lets you access additional functions such as physical buttons, swipes, or even type, using only your eyes. For faster keyboard typing, you can use a shorter keyboard dwell time or even “slide to type” with QuickPath on iPhone and Apple Vision Pro. Eye Tracking integrates with Switch Control on iPhone and iPad, so you have the option to use a switch or dwell to make selections. iPad also supports third-party eye trackers.

For some people who use power wheelchairs, driving with a joystick is not an option — alternative drive controls become an essential part of independent movement. Look to Drive enables you to control a compatible powered wheelchair with your eyes — just look at a directional control to send a movement command to the wheelchair accessory. With Apple Vision Pro, eye tracking doesn’t require frequent recalibration and works in a variety of lighting conditions, offering expanded freedom of movement in controlled environments such as indoors or in a private patio or yard.³⁹

Dictation enables you to talk where you would type — and it’s available in more than 60 languages and locales. If you have strong verbal skills but your spelling or typing could use an assist, just go to any text field and tap the microphone button on the onscreen keyboard to start dictating. Or simply look at the microphone button in a search field and start speaking to dictate text on Apple Vision Pro. And you can activate Dictation through Keyboard settings on your Mac to turn your speech into text. Fluidly switch between voice and touch so you can continue to interact with your onscreen keyboard to move the cursor or insert QuickType suggestions.⁴⁰ Punctuation like commas, periods, and question marks are automatically added to your text as you speak.⁴¹ You can even insert emoji into messages using just your voice.⁴²

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 feature availability. See iOS and iPadOS and macOS for Modeless Dictation availability.

If you use Magic Keyboard or another physical keyboard with your devices, you can adjust the sensitivity of keys and make it easier to press combinations of keys. Turn on Full Keyboard Access on Mac to navigate and control your Mac with only the keyboard. You can also change the appearance of the cursor — make the Full Keyboard Access cursor wider, or choose a color and increase contrast so it’s easier to spot on the screen.

With Key Repeat, you can set how long you must press and hold a key before it starts repeating and how fast it repeats once it starts. Or you can prevent the key from repeating at all. Slow Keys lets you adjust the amount of time between when a key is pressed and when it is activated, so your device processes only the keystrokes you mean to make. Sticky Keys enables you to enter key combinations sequentially rather than simultaneously. Or use Mouse Keys to control your pointer with a numeric keypad on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can also create custom shortcuts for commonly used words or phrases, and your iPhone, iPad, and Mac will type them for you.

The customizable, onscreen Accessibility Keyboard lets you navigate and type in macOS without using a physical keyboard. With Panel Editor, you can add custom panels to the Accessibility Keyboard panel collection to help streamline common tasks and actions for different apps on your Mac. You can also use the panels on another Mac, or share them with other Switch Control or Accessibility Keyboard users. Accessibility Keyboard even supports improved typing with auto-capitalization and better word suggestions, as well as head‑tracking hardware so you can move the pointer and select or drag onscreen items. And it has Dwell support, so all of macOS can be used without ever needing to click a mouse or trackpad button.

Assistive Access makes it easy for people with cognitive disabilities to tailor their iPhone and iPad to lighten their cognitive load and suit their specific needs and preferences. Designed with feedback from individuals with cognitive disabilities and their trusted supporters, Assistive Access offers a distinctive interface with high-contrast buttons, large text labels, and visual alternatives to text. It also has tools to help individuals and their supporters adjust the experience in specific apps. During setup, you can preview your settings in a way that better represents the real experience in Assistive Access, which can be helpful for those who are new to the feature. You can also preview your Lock Screen, which updates with your wallpaper selection and the time and date layout.

Assistive Access includes customized experiences for Phone and FaceTime (which have been combined into a single Calls app), Messages, Camera, Photos, Music, Magnifier, and the Apple TV app for iPhone and iPad. For those who prefer communicating visually, Messages includes an emoji-only keyboard and the option to record a video message. Choose a more visual, grid-based layout for your Home Screen and apps, or a row-based layout if you prefer text. Assistive Access supports third-party apps, including augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) apps.

If you’re a parent, teacher, caregiver, or just need support focusing, Guided Access can help by temporarily restricting your device to a single app and allowing you to control which app features are available. You can set a time limit and customize which features, hardware buttons, and areas of the screen are available. You can even restrict access to the keyboard, disable touch input on certain areas of the screen on iPhone or iPad, and disable all areas of view on Apple Vision Pro where an accidental gesture might cause a distraction.