Apple to add new accessibility features to the iPhone with iOS 18،
We already know that iOS 18 will be one of the biggest updates in Apple history. New AI features, including a revised Siri, have many iPhone users looking forward to June, when Apple will introduce iOS 18 at WWDC 2024. More changes will come to iPhone features. accessibility of the operating system. These are features designed for people with “vision, mobility, hearing, speech, and cognitive needs” and can be found in the Accessibility app.
MacRumors spoke to industry sources who told them about new accessibility features expected to be added to iOS 18. Traditionally, these are announced before WWDC, which makes it entirely possible that Apple is now finishing development of these new features, which could explain why they were leaked at this point.
Personal Voice uses AI to record a user's voice for use when they can no longer speak
Voice shortcuts would allow an iPhone user to connect a phrase to start a particular accessibility feature. Unlike Siri Shortcuts, no wake phrases, such as “Hey Siri,” need to be spoken first. Voice Shortcuts are rumored to work with accessibility features like VoiceOver, Voice Control, and others. The former plays content on an iPhone while the latter lets you execute voice commands to “perform gestures, interact with screen elements, dictate and edit text, and much more.”
Another change will see Apple add a system-wide font size control. Currently, users can change an app's font size, but only if this is supported by the app, and some Apple system apps do not offer such support; they will all be iOS 18. The company also previously announced Personal Voice for Live Speech, which uses AI to create a digital version of a user's voice after completing 15 minutes of “training” with often-used phrases recorded. If someone is suffering from an illness that will cost them their speech, this feature will allow them to “speak” once they can no longer do so.
We should see iOS 18 released next September.
