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Topics include:

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• Open Per Voice Settings
• Text Detection
• Point and Speak
• Sound Curtain
• Fast long-press speed option
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• Listen to Page
• React with your Hands in FaceTime
• Level Tool for Camera
• Audio Transcription in Messages

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We'd love to hear from you in the comments about how you are customizing and using the new Action button on your iPhone 15 Pro. Are you setting it up for quick access to commonly used apps or actions like switching to the camera or recording a voice memo? Or are you taking advantage of its support for shortcuts to improve your iPhone experience and workflow?? Let us and other listeners know what creative ways you've found to utilize this handy new feature.

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• Apple Announces 'Let Loose' Special Event With New iPads Expected
• Voice Dream Reader Developer has Back Down
• Apple has been secretly building home robots that could end up as a new product line
• Latest Hardware Rumors and News
• Latest iOS 18 Rumors and News
• The Big Slow Down for Apple
• What's in this month AppleVis News

Links:

• Apple Announces 'Let Loose' Special Event With New iPads Expected
• Applause have backed down. Purchased VoiceDream features will stay.
• Apple has been secretly building home robots that could end up as a new product line, report says
• iPhone 16 capacitive button rumor resurrected by supply chain report
• The iPhone SE 4 could be an odd mix of several different existing iPhones
• Apple plans to overhaul the entire Mac line-up with AI-focused M4 chips
• Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon For AI Servers
• iOS 18 Rumored to 'Overhaul' Notes, Mail, Photos, and Fitness Apps
• iOS 18 AI features to be powered by ‘entirely on-device’ LLM, offering privacy and speed benefits
• watchOS 11 Rumored to Drop Support for Apple Watch Series 4
• Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments, now ‘reviewing and adjusting’ headset strategy
• iPhone Activation Market Share Dips To Lowest in Six Years, per Report
• Introducing Envision Assistant Beta

If you have feedback or questions for the Unleashed team, you can reach them by email at unleashed@applevis.com

In this episode, Thomas Domville gives us an overview of new accessibility features for blind, DeafBlind, and visually impaired users in iOS 18. Topics covered include:

• Live Recognition Comes to the Rotor
• Voices Rotor
• Improvements to Audio Ducking
• VoiceOver Tutorial
• VoiceOver Startup Haptic Feedback
• Delay Before Selection
• New languages for Lithuanian and Kazak
• Using Personal Voice with VoiceOver
• Equalizer and Other New Customization Options for VoiceOver Voices
• Voice Presets for Siri Voices
• A New VoiceOver Gesture for Accessing Siri Text Input
• Braille Screen Input Improvements
• Motion Queues
• New Sound Actions
• Assistive Touch Improvements
• Eye Tracking
• New Background Sounds and Controls
• Music Haptics
• Live Speech Improvements
• Voice Control Improvements
• Vocal Shortcuts
• Hover Typing
• Car Play Improvements: Voice Control, Color Filters, and Sound Recognition
• Magnifier Improvements: Assign Action Button to Magnifier Mode and New Reader Mode
• Improvements to Accessing Reader Mode in Safari

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

An Apple Vis Original What's new in iOS 18 for accessibility?

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Donville, also known as Anonymous, as like every year, a new iOS comes in play and Apple brings out new features for us to enjoy.

So with no exception, this year we got a slew of new features for voiceover users, braille users, and other accessibility features that you might find of interest.

There's a lot in here to pack, so let's go ahead and jump right into it and you can hear for yourself what is new in iOS 18 for accessibility.

Live recognition is now an option within your rotor if you include it.

To include it, you just go to your accessibility and head over to rotors and include the live recognition.

This allows you to access live recognition quickly and easily by simply going to your rotor.

Once enabled, we'll just head over to live recognition within our rotor, where you are able to select one or more of the various detections you would like to be enabled.

As you swipe down or up within the rotor, you get the various detection.

To enable a particular detection, just simply do one finger double tap, double tap again and that'll disable it.

If you dismiss the rotor and keep the detection on, it will now live in with your dynamic island towards the top of your device or you can dismiss it from there as well.

Apple has now enhanced the voice over voice option within rotors, which used to be called language.

This rotor allows you to access the various voices that you have defined within speech under accessibility, but that itself has completely been revamped, which you can find within the voice over in the accessibility.

Double tap on this now.

You now have two section in here, first is your primary voice, which can be in any language, doesn't have to be necessarily English and they can…

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