Apple has unveiled a set of new Apple Intelligence-powered accessibility features that will be available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro later this year.
The improved VoiceOver can now provide much richer image descriptions using Apple Intelligence processing. Image explorer can identify and describe photos, scanned documents, bills, and other visual content in more detail.
With the updated Live Recognition, users can press the Action button to quickly ask questions about whatever appears in the camera viewfinder. It also supports natural-language follow-up questions.
Magnifier is also gaining Apple Intelligence integration. It can understand documents and objects in view and provide relevant information through a high-contrast interface designed for users with low vision. Users can also ask the app with requests like “zoom in” or “turn on the flashlight.”
Voice Control is also getting Apple Intelligence integration. Users will no longer need to remember or use exact button names and can instead rely on natural language to navigate their iPhone and iPad more easily. For example, users can say commands like “Tap the purple folder” and “open the restaurant guide.”
Accessibility Reader gets smarter with Apple Intelligence as well. It now supports complex contents like scientific papers, multi-column layout, images, tables, and more. Users can also get a quick overview of an article before reading it. In addition, new built-in translation support allows users to read text in their native language while preserving the original article layout, including colors, fonts, images, and overall formatting.
Apple Intelligence brings AI generated captions across Apple devices. It uses on-device processing to automatically generate captions for videos that don’t already include them. The feature will work with nearly any video, including videos recorded on the device, clips shared by friends and family, and more.
A precision eye-tracking system on Vision Pro can help users control wheelchairs. The eye tracking does not require frequent recalibration and is designed to work across a variety of lightning conditions. It will support compatible wheelchair systems, including Tolt and LUCI drive systems in the US, and works with both Bluetooth and wired connections.
Apple also announced several other accessibility features, including Vehicle Motion Cues on Vision Pro to help reduce motion sickness while traveling, Touch accommodations to personalize setup in iOS and iPadOS, an improved Made for iPhone hearing aids pairing and handoff experience, larger text support on tvOS for easier reading, Name Recognition, and more.
Apple announces upcoming features ahead of WWDC event every year, and it is part of this years plan for Apple devices. Apple Intelligence has been one of the let down as it was promised to come earlier but users kept waiting and didn’t receive them. Let’s see if they can bring the new Apple Intelligence experience this year.
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