Chapter 10

Making Your iPhone More Accessible

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Set brightness and wallpapers

Bullet Set up and use VoiceOver

Bullet Use iPhone with hearing aids

Bullet Set up subtitles, captioning, and other hearing settings

Bullet Turn on additional physical and motor settings

Bullet Learn with Guided Access

iPhone users are a very diverse group, and some face visual, motor, or hearing challenges. If you’re one of these folks, you’ll be glad to hear that Apple offers some handy accessibility features for your iPhone.

You can make your screen easier to read and set up the VoiceOver feature to read onscreen elements out loud. Then there are a slew of features you can turn on or off, including Zoom, Invert Colors, Speak Selection, Large Type, and more.

If hearing is your challenge, you can do the obvious and adjust the system volume. If you wear hearing aids, you can choose the correct settings for using Bluetooth or ...

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