A screen reader that describes what’s on your screen, including in braille.
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. On Apple Vision Pro, you can control and navigate your device with a combination of gestures using one or both hands. VoiceOver can describe your surroundings in great detail. With Live Recognition, you’ll get descriptions of objects in the real world, such as people, doors, text, and furniture in indoor spaces.1 VoiceOver offers deep customization options, like modifying your favorite built-in voice for speech feedback and tailoring its verbosity, speed, and accompanying sound and haptic feedback to your preferences.2
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.
You can also connect a Bluetooth wireless refreshable braille display and use it to control and navigate your Apple device. Read and type using contracted or uncontracted braille, or enter braille directly on the touchscreen using Braille Screen Input. VoiceOver supports many international braille tables. When communicating or working with sighted individuals, you can turn on the braille panel to display a language translation of the braille onscreen. Apple devices also support multiline text braille displays. With more than 70 refreshable braille displays compatible with iOS and iPadOS, and more than 100 with macOS, you can find the right braille experience for you.
A digital magnifying glass that zooms in on, detects, and describes objects around you.
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 works as a video magnifier or a desktop magnifier to read 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.
For those who are blind or have low vision and want more information about their physical surroundings, Detection Mode in Magnifier can scan surroundings and offer live descriptions of what is detected in the camera view using on-device machine learning. Magnifier recognizes text in the camera view with Text Detection, and you can even point your finger at text and have it spoken with Point and Speak.3 This can be helpful when you need to interact with an object that has text labels, such as a digital screen at self-checkout, dials, buttons, or keypads on household appliances.
Detection Mode on iPhone and iPad models with a LiDAR Scanner includes intelligent tools that detect people, doors, and furniture nearby and let you know using sounds and other feedback.4 On iPhone, use Detection Mode with the Action button to have your surroundings described to you.5
Features are subject to change. Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. See iOS and iPadOS for Scenes in Detection Mode availability. See iOS and iPadOS for Text Detection availability.
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.2 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 spoken content, so you can follow along with text as it’s read out loud.
Have any text on your screen read aloud, including letters and words as you type.
Read & Speak settings
This collection of features is designed to enhance your reading or writing with audio. Hear your entire screen read aloud with Speak Screen or use Speak Selection to have a specific range of text read to you. Speech Controller lets you keep those controls onscreen so you can easily pause the speaking, adjust the rate, or navigate forward or back to the content you want to hear.
Speak Screen and Speak Selection are available in over 80 distinct voices and more than 60 languages and locales, with options to customize settings such as pitch range for your preferred built-in voices.2 Languages are automatically detected to switch seamlessly between voices, so your spoken content won’t feel impersonal. These features also work with Accessibility Reader, so you can view text in a format that’s comfortable for you and hear it read out loud at the same time.
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.
Activate Typing Feedback to hear what you type spoken out loud character by character, word by word, and with auto-corrections and auto-capitalizations as they appear. With Highlight Content, you can have words or sentences accentuated in a customized color and style as they’re read out loud.
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.
Take notes, open apps, and get real-time captions, all in braille.
Braille Access
Braille Access is an all-new 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. 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
You can also 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.
Invert colors, apply color filters, increase contrast, adjust text size, and more.
Display settings & Text Size
Text Size helps make text more legible and visible with simple font adjustments. With Larger Text you can adjust the size using an accessibility slider, while Bold Text gives weight to the words on your screen. You can set up Per-App Settings to ensure that your preferred settings will be applied only to the apps you choose.
Invert display colors to make the background dark to help your text and content stand out. This can be useful in apps and websites that don’t support Dark Mode. Smart Invert reverses the colors on the display except for images, media, and some apps that use dark color styles, while Classic Invert reverses all colors on the display.
Color Filters let you view the entire screen in grayscale, adjust colors for color vision deficiencies, or tint the screen a color. Use Reduce White Point to tone down the intensity of bright colors and make the display easier on your eyes. You can also use Reduce Bright Effects to minimize bright flashes when tapping on elements like buttons.
