Apple today offered a preview of powerful new accessibility features that will be coming to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The announcement comes two days ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
These features are expected to debut al0ongside iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3, which Apple will debut during the WWDC 2025 keynote on Monday, June 9. As is usual for new features, they will undergo months of beta testing, and if all goes well, they will debut as a part of Apple’s above software updates in December.
The new features include:
- Accessibility Nutrition Labels on App Store product pages that will highlight accessibility features within apps and games..
- The Magnifier app is coming to the Mac, allowing users with low vision to connect an iPhone or USB camera to zoom in and read text on objects around them, such as a screen or whiteboard.
- Vehicle Motion Cues are expanding to the Mac, to reduce motion sickness in a vehicle.
- A new system-wide Accessibility Reader tool on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro will make text easier to read for users with low vision or dyslexia.
- Live Captions are coming to the Apple Watch, which will allow users to read a transcription of what their iPhone hears on their wrist.
- The Apple Vision Pro will gain an enhanced Zoom feature, allowing users to magnify everything in view, including their surroundings, using the device’s main camera.
- Braille Access will turn the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro into a full-featured braille note taker that’s deeply integrated into the Apple ecosystem.
- Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, Accessibility Reader gives users new ways to customize text and focus on content they want to read, with extensive options for font, color, and spacing, as well as support for Spoken Content.
- Personal Voice will become faster and easier to use, thanks to advancements in on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence.
- Updates to CarPlay include support for Large Text. With updates to Sound Recognition in CarPlay, drivers or passengers who are deaf or hard of hearing can now be notified of the sound of a crying baby, in addition to sounds outside the car such as horns and sirens.
To read more about these features and several others, read Apple’s press release.
