iPhone and iPad Accessibility Support
All the topics, resources, and contact options you need for iPhone and iPad accessibility.
About Display Accommodations
Learn how to use Display Accommodations, like Color Filters, with iOS 10 on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Featured topics
Braille displays supported by iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
You can use VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and a Bluetooth enabled braille display to read and navigate.
Get a list of supported braille displays
Common braille commands for VoiceOver navigation
When using a braille display with VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, your braille display may support the following commands to help with navigation.
Learn about VoiceOver commands
Adjust voices for VoiceOver, Speak Screen, and Speak Selection
Your iOS device starts out using a compact voice for VoiceOver, Speak Screen, and Speak Selection. You have a few options for the voices you can use for speech.
Adjust voices
Answer or make TTY calls from your iPhone
With iOS 10 and a cellular connection on your iPhone, you can make TTY (Text Telephone) calls without any extra hardware. You can also find transcripts of your previous TTY calls.
Learn about TTY calls
Use Made for iPhone hearing aids
Made for iPhone hearing aids can help you hear more clearly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Learn how to pair your Made for iPhone hearing aid to your iOS device, control it, and more.
Connect and control your hearing aidsUse Live Listen with Made for iPhone hearing aids
With Live Listen, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch becomes a remote microphone that sends sound to your Made for iPhone hearing aid. Live Listen can help you hear a conversation in a noisy room or hear someone speaking across the room.
Use Live Listen
Turn on closed captions and subtitles
On iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can turn on and customize closed captions and subtitles to read the dialogue in a video.
Use closed captions and subtitles
Use Switch Control to navigate your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Learn about the Switch Control accessibility feature in iOS.
Use Switch Control
Use AssistiveTouch on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
You can use AssistiveTouch to control your device, help you perform gestures like a pinch, multi-finger swipe, or 3D Touch, and use Siri.
Use AssistiveTouch
Use Typing Feedback on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
With Typing Feedback in iOS 10, your iOS device can give you feedback as you type as well as speak text corrections and word suggestions.
Use Typing Feedback
Reduce screen motion on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
If you notice screen movement on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can turn on Reduce Motion.
Reduce screen motionSearch for more topics
Resources
iPhone User Guide - Accessibility Features
The iPhone offers many accessibility features.
See iPhone accessibility featuresiPad User Guide - Accessibility Features
The iPad offers many accessibility features.
See iPad accessibility features
Developer resourcesApple developers can use these resources to help make their applications accessible.
Accessibility overviewGet the bigger picture on what's happening with accessibility at Apple.
AccessoriesGet Braille displays, Bluetooth remote controls and switches for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod.
Accessibility Community
Contact Apple Support
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