Apple Announces New iOS 19 and macOS 16 Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC

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Apple contiguous previewed a wide scope of caller accessibility features coming aboriginal this twelvemonth connected the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The announcement comes 2 days up of Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

These features are expected to debut crossed iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3, which volition beryllium unveiled during the WWDC 2025 keynote connected Monday, June 9. Following months of beta testing, the bundle updates should beryllium released successful September, bringing the caller accessibility features to the masses.

Accessibility Reader

Some of the cardinal caller features:

Accessibility Nutrition Labels successful the App Store, which volition item accessibility features wrong apps and games.

Apple is expanding its Magnifier app to the Mac, allowing users to link an iPhone oregon USB camera to zoom successful and work substance connected objects astir them.

Vehicle Motion Cues are expanding to the Mac, to trim question sickness successful a vehicle.

A caller system-wide Accessibility Reader instrumentality connected the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro volition marque substance easier to work for users with debased imaginativeness oregon dyslexia. The diagnostic volition springiness users caller ways to customize substance and absorption connected contented they privation to read, with extended options for font, color, and spacing.

Live Captions are coming to the Apple Watch, allowing users to work a transcription of what their iPhone hears connected their wrist.

An enhanced Zoom diagnostic connected the Apple Vision Pro volition let users to magnify everything successful view, including their surroundings, utilizing the device's main camera.

Personal Voice volition go faster and easier to use, acknowledgment to advancements successful on-device instrumentality learning and artificial intelligence. Apple says the diagnostic volition beryllium capable to make a smoother, much natural-sounding replication of your dependable successful little than a minute, utilizing lone 10 recorded phrases.