Overview
- Apple announced a package of Apple Intelligence features to expand accessibility across its devices, with most releases planned for later this year.
- VoiceOver will use the camera to describe scenes and scanned documents in detail, with the iPhone Action button to trigger the viewfinder and support for follow-up questions.
- Voice Control will accept plain-language commands to tap and navigate items on screen, and Accessibility Reader will handle complex layouts with options for summaries and translation that keep a user’s preferred formatting.
- On-device models will generate subtitles for uncaptioned videos across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro, launching in English in the U.S. and Canada.
- Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking will steer supported power wheelchairs through TOLT and LUCI systems in the U.S., and Apple outlined additions coming later this year including Name Recognition in over 50 languages, a FaceTime sign-language interpreter API, larger text on tvOS, Sony Access controller support, and improved Made for iPhone hearing-aid pairing, with a new Hikawa Grip and Stand for iPhone available starting today.