Mobility

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Discover features that make it easy to modify your touch, create custom gestures, or control your devices in the ways that work best for you.

UpdatedSwitch Control

Navigate your device with as little as a tap.

Switch Control makes it easy and efficient to control your device with a variety of adaptive switch hardware, wireless game controllers, or even simple sounds like a click, a pop, or an “ee” sound. Use item, point, and manual scanning to navigate sequentially through onscreen keyboards, menus, and the Dock. Create your own custom panels and keyboards, systemwide or app by app. Platform?Switching helps you use a single device to navigate any other devices you have synced with your Apple?Account. That way, you can control your Mac directly from your iPhone or iPad without having to set up your switches on each new device.1 With Apple?Watch mirroring, you can use assistive features like Switch?Control to fully control your Apple?Watch from your iPhone.2 And gaming is even easier with Switch Control — the same switch or sound actions you use to navigate and control your iPhone and iPad can be turned into a game controller.

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV

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Switch Control makes it easy and efficient to control your device with a variety of adaptive switch hardware, wireless game controllers, or even simple sounds like a click, a pop, or an “ee” sound. Use item, point, and manual scanning to navigate sequentially through onscreen keyboards, menus, and the Dock. Create your own custom panels and keyboards, systemwide or app by app. Platform?Switching helps you use a single device to navigate any other devices you have synced with your Apple?Account. That way, you can control your Mac directly from your iPhone or iPad without having to set up your switches on each new device.1 With Apple?Watch mirroring, you can use assistive features like Switch?Control to fully control your Apple?Watch from your iPhone.2 And gaming is even easier with Switch Control — the same switch or sound actions you use to navigate and control your iPhone and iPad can be turned into a game controller.

Set up Switch Control on:

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Switch Control for Gaming. People who use Switch Control have the option to turn the same switch they use to navigate and control their iPhone or iPad into a game controller. It works with Made for iPhone switches, the camera and Head Tracking, and sound actions. For example, those who prefer to use sound actions as switches can set different sounds, like a pop or a click, to perform game maneuvers, such as moving left and right.

AssistiveTouch

Push all the buttons without pressing?any.

AssistiveTouch for iOS and iPadOS lets you adapt your touchscreen to ?t your physical needs. If certain gestures, like pinch or two-finger tap, don’t work for you, swap them with a gesture that does or create a touch that’s all your own. You can customize the layout of the AssistiveTouch menu too, or connect a Bluetooth device to control an onscreen pointer for?navigation. AssistiveTouch for Apple?Watch helps those with upper-body limb differences use hand gestures such as clench, double‑clench, pinch, and double‑pinch to control apps and experiences across Apple?Watch.3

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch

AssistiveTouch for iOS and iPadOS lets you adapt your touchscreen to ?t your physical needs. If certain gestures, like pinch or two-finger tap, don’t work for you, swap them with a gesture that does or create a touch that’s all your own. You can customize the layout of the AssistiveTouch menu too, or connect a Bluetooth device to control an onscreen pointer for?navigation. AssistiveTouch for Apple?Watch helps those with upper-body limb differences use hand gestures such as clench, double‑clench, pinch, and double‑pinch to control apps and experiences across Apple?Watch.3

Set up AssistiveTouch on:

Quick Actions for Apple?Watch

Double‑pinch to do even?more.

Merge subtle movement with skillful multitasking through Quick?Actions for Apple?Watch. Now you can do even more with your Apple?Watch without ever touching the display or turning on AssistiveTouch for Apple?Watch. Double‑pinch with your hand to easily answer a phone call, snap a photo, pause your music, resume your daily workout, and much more. You can find and enable Quick?Actions in Accessibility settings on your Apple?Watch.4

Available on:

Apple Watch

Merge subtle movement with skillful multitasking through Quick?Actions for Apple?Watch. Now you can do even more with your Apple?Watch without ever touching the display or turning on AssistiveTouch for Apple?Watch. Double‑pinch with your hand to easily answer a phone call, snap a photo, pause your music, resume your daily workout, and much more. You can find and enable Quick?Actions in Accessibility settings on your Apple?Watch.4

Set up Quick Actions for Apple?Watch on:

Apple Watch

UpdatedAlternative input

Control your device with a single?gesture.

There are many ways to navigate and control your devices without using your hands or fingers. Head Tracking uses the camera on your device to follow the movement of your head to control a pointer on your screen, and it tracks your facial movements to perform actions.5 On Mac, Pointer?Control lets you use different methods, like head movements, to control your pointer and mouse or trackpad button. Eye tracking support in iPadOS makes it even easier for people to control iPad using third-party MFi eye-tracking devices.6 Compatible devices track where a person is looking onscreen and the pointer moves to follow their gaze, while extended eye contact performs an action, like a tap.

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Mac

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There are many ways to navigate and control your devices without using your hands or fingers. Head Tracking uses the camera on your device to follow the movement of your head to control a pointer on your screen, and it tracks your facial movements to perform actions.5 On Mac, Pointer?Control lets you use different methods, like head movements, to control your pointer and mouse or trackpad button. Eye tracking support in iPadOS makes it even easier for people to control iPad using third-party MFi eye-tracking devices.6 Compatible devices track where a person is looking onscreen and the pointer moves to follow their gaze, while extended eye contact performs an action, like a tap.

Set up alternative input on:

Updates:

Improvements to eye-tracking support on iPad. Those who pair a third-party MFi eye-tracking device with iPad have an improved experience, with easier typing and smoother navigation.

Switch Control for Gaming. With Switch Control, the same alternative input method you use to navigate and control your iPhone and iPad can be turned into a game controller.

Back Tap

A tap on the back opens?a favorite app.

Meet the easiest shortcut ever. Back Tap lets you double‑tap or triple‑tap the back of your iPhone to perform a range of custom tasks automatically — from opening your favorite app to taking a screenshot. Choose from more than 20 different actions or create your own automated shortcuts to simplify your everyday?tasks.7

Available on:

iPhone

Meet the easiest shortcut ever. Back Tap lets you double‑tap or triple‑tap the back of your iPhone to perform a range of custom tasks automatically — from opening your favorite app to taking a screenshot. Choose from more than 20 different actions or create your own automated shortcuts to simplify your everyday?tasks.7

Set up Back Tap on:

iPhone

Touch Accommodations

You’ve got the magic?touch.

Adjust how the screen responds to your touch with Touch?Accommodations. Control how long you touch before it’s recognized or whether repeat touches are ignored. That way, you can put your ?nger down anywhere on the screen and move to the item you want to select without performing an unintended?action.

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch

Adjust how the screen responds to your touch with Touch?Accommodations. Control how long you touch before it’s recognized or whether repeat touches are ignored. That way, you can put your ?nger down anywhere on the screen and move to the item you want to select without performing an unintended?action.

Set up Touch Accommodations on:

Hardware keyboard support

Simplify keystrokes and adjust sensitivity.

Slow?Keys lets you adjust the amount of time between when a key is pressed and when it is activated, so your device processes only the keystrokes you mean to make. Sticky?Keys enable you to enter key combinations sequentially rather than simultaneously. Or use Mouse?Keys to control your pointer with a numeric?keypad. You can also create custom shortcuts for commonly used words or phrases, and your iPhone, iPad, and Mac will type them for?you.

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Mac

Slow?Keys lets you adjust the amount of time between when a key is pressed and when it is activated, so your device processes only the keystrokes you mean to make. Sticky?Keys enable you to enter key combinations sequentially rather than simultaneously. Or use Mouse?Keys to control your pointer with a numeric?keypad. You can also create custom shortcuts for commonly used words or phrases, and your iPhone, iPad, and Mac will type them for?you.

Set up hardware keyboard support?on:

Accessibility Keyboard

Stay off the keys?and on?the?screen.

The customizable, onscreen Accessibility?Keyboard lets you navigate and type in macOS your way. It includes support for custom toolbars and improved typing with autocapitalization and better word suggestions. This keyboard also supports head‑tracking hardware so you can move the pointer and select or drag onscreen items. And it has Dwell support, so all of macOS can be used without ever needing to click a mouse?or trackpad button.

Available on:

Mac

The customizable, onscreen Accessibility?Keyboard lets you navigate and type in macOS your way. It includes support for custom toolbars and improved typing with autocapitalization and better word suggestions. This keyboard also supports head‑tracking hardware so you can move the pointer and select or drag onscreen items. And it has Dwell support, so all of macOS can be used without ever needing to click a mouse?or trackpad button.

Set up Accessibility Keyboard on:

Mac

Dictation

Everything you say goes.

Dictation lets you talk wherever you would type. It’s easy to type an email, notes, or a web address — without typing at all. Tap the microphone button on the onscreen keyboard, or turn on Dictation through Keyboard settings in System?Settings on your Mac. Say what you want to write, and your device converts your speech into text. While dictating, you can move fluidly between voice and touch, so you can type with your keyboard, move your cursor, and add QuickType suggestions, all without needing to stop Dictation.8 Dictation automatically punctuates your text with periods, commas, and question marks as you speak.9 And you can easily insert emoji into messages with your voice. Just say “Happy face emoji” when sending your next?message.10

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV

Dictation lets you talk wherever you would type. It’s easy to type an email, notes, or a web address — without typing at all. Tap the microphone button on the onscreen keyboard, or turn on Dictation through Keyboard settings in System?Settings on your Mac. Say what you want to write, and your device converts your speech into text. While dictating, you can move fluidly between voice and touch, so you can type with your keyboard, move your cursor, and add QuickType suggestions, all without needing to stop Dictation.8 Dictation automatically punctuates your text with periods, commas, and question marks as you speak.9 And you can easily insert emoji into messages with your voice. Just say “Happy face emoji” when sending your next?message.10

Set up Dictation on:

UpdatedPredictive Text

Find your next word?without a second?thought.

Let your device finish the sentence for you. If you find it cumbersome to type, Predictive?Text lets you tap to choose the next word.11 Just start writing and it adjusts its suggestions based on who you’re talking to and what you’ve said before. A more accurate autocorrect helps you select the right word with more ease, and it temporarily underlines what’s been changed so you can quickly spot updates and revert to the original if needed.12 And inline suggestions let you finish words or entire sentences just by tapping the Space bar.13

Available on:

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple?Watch

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Let your device finish the sentence for you. If you find it cumbersome to type, Predictive?Text lets you tap to choose the next word.11 Just start writing and it adjusts its suggestions based on who you’re talking to and what you’ve said before. A more accurate autocorrect helps you select the right word with more ease, and it temporarily underlines what’s been changed so you can quickly spot updates and revert to the original if needed.12 And inline suggestions let you finish words or entire sentences just by tapping the Space bar.13

Set up Predictive?Text?on:

Updates:

More accurate autocorrect. Autocorrected words are temporarily underlined, so you know what’s been changed and can revert back to the original word with just a tap if you need to.12

Inline predictions. Tap the Space bar to finish words or entire sentences.13

Activity?app

Set a goal and?roll.

Reach your exercise goals with the Activity app on Apple?Watch, designed with wheelchair users in mind. Instead of a Stand goal, the Roll goal encourages you to move every hour. And sensors in Apple?Watch take into account different pushing techniques for varying speeds and terrain — even transition movements — giving you the most accurate snapshot of your daily?activity.

Available on:

Apple?Watch

Reach your exercise goals with the Activity app on Apple?Watch, designed with wheelchair users in mind. Instead of a Stand goal, the Roll goal encourages you to move every hour. And sensors in Apple?Watch take into account different pushing techniques for varying speeds and terrain — even transition movements — giving you the most accurate snapshot of your daily?activity.

Set up the Activity app on:

Apple?Watch

Workout app

Designed for the way you?move.

The Workout app on Apple?Watch helps you work out your way. Accurately measure your movement with specific exercise routines and set time, distance, or calorie goals based on the type of exercise you do. For wheelchair users, there are two unique workouts: Outdoor Wheelchair Walk Pace and Outdoor Wheelchair Run Pace. Just choose a workout and Apple?Watch turns on the appropriate?sensors.

Available on:

Apple?Watch

The Workout app on Apple?Watch helps you work out your way. Accurately measure your movement with specific exercise routines and set time, distance, or calorie goals based on the type of exercise you do. For wheelchair users, there are two unique workouts: Outdoor Wheelchair Walk Pace and Outdoor Wheelchair Run Pace. Just choose a workout and Apple?Watch turns on the appropriate?sensors.

Set up the Workout app on:

Apple Watch

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