iOS 780: Accessibility Tools & Tips - Magnifer, Display Pulse Smoothing, Bookcase, & more
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Discover unexpected ways Apple's accessibility features can make any iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch easier to use, whether you need extra-large text at bedtime or want an edge with hands-free controls. Find out how these settings quietly power mainstream features and solve problems you didn't know had solutions!
- Reduce White Point and night-time usability tips
- Display and text size customization for comfort and legibility
- Magnifier, Zoom, and hover text make small details readable
- Color filters and PWM toggle for migraines and color blindness
- Accessibility for temporary or situational needs (not just disability)
- Using pointer devices, sign language support, and Control Center options
- Voice control features — set custom commands and hands-free solutions
- Fine-tuning button and touch sensitivity for Apple devices
- Astropad Bookcase: physical accessory for easier phone handling
- Troubleshooting wireless CarPlay connection issues after iOS updates
- App Caps: Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles is a chill animal puzzle game with neat artwork!
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk a little bit about some of the accessibility options you have on your devices. Stay tuned. |
| 0:13.8 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:35.6 | This is iOS Today, episode 780, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 for Thursday, December 4th, 2025. |
| 0:39.1 | Accessibility tools and tips? |
| 0:46.4 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPadOS, |
| 0:52.3 | watchOS, home pod OS, and other operating systems that Apple provides to us. |
| 0:55.5 | This is the show where we try to help you make the most of your devices by telling you about settings, apps, gadgets, gizmos, |
| 1:00.1 | you can download and use and change to make your devices all the more awesome. |
| 1:07.3 | I am one of your hosts. |
| 1:08.5 | My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 1:22.6 | And my name is the Rosemajit. And yeah, I'm very happy to be here today to help folks access their devices in new and exciting ways or just learn about some ways that they can share with others. Indeed. So I thought it would be a great opportunity for us to talk a little bit about the options that you have within the accessibility settings on your device. It can be your iPad. It can be your iPhone. It could be whatever. Apple is known for its commitment, first and foremost, to accessibility. |
| 1:49.0 | And just to kind of give you a brief understanding of that terminology, in this case it just means |
| 1:55.0 | making a device more usable by more people. And that's because, of course, everybody has different experiences, |
| 2:04.6 | different abilities, and so being able to use a phone |
| 2:10.6 | and, for example, have the text be bigger. |
| 2:14.6 | Or another example is if you are colorblind, having the text or rather the |
| 2:20.2 | screen appear in a way that is easy to differentiate between what's on the screen. Those are all |
| 2:25.8 | things that kind of fit squarely within the accessibility category. And Apple does, as far as I'm |
| 2:32.8 | concerned, and as far as many people are concerned, put its money where |
| 2:36.0 | it where its mouth is when it comes to those accessibility, you know, requirements or |
| 2:43.0 | features and settings. Now, one thing that I will note as well is that along with Apple being |
| 2:49.6 | known for its commitment to accessibility, |
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