- Apple’s new suite of accessibility features offers some big changes.
- Haptic feedback, eye tracking and more can improve the gaming experience for many.
- Despite some waffle about AI and machine learning, it’s not a new technology.
Apple is set to introduce many new accessibility features to the iPhone, including haptic feedback for music, eye tracking and more. As you can see in Company official press releaseIt looks like it’s coming exclusively to the iPhone and iPad, and while many of those games will be integrated and work well, we’ve yet to see any news about that. Whether it will happen or not.
Eye tracking is perhaps the biggest one, as it allows users to navigate their iPhones and iPads with just their eyes, which is intended to help people who may have physical disabilities. . Haptic feedback for music meanwhile adds vibrations and a host of other physical effects to enhance music listening. There are also things like vehicle motion alerts, accessible features for visionOS and more.
Overall pretty cool.
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t talk much about AI and machine learning, many of which are features we’ve seen before but are being added to the iPhone in a big way. While the first and foremost benefit will be for those who need these features to comfortably use their devices, we’d be excited to see haptics for music and vehicle motion cues. How things like feedback can improve the gaming experience for so many people.
You can see all the accessible features in detail from Apple’s press release above.
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