What's New in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14: Accessibility Features

By AppleVis, 15 September, 2020

With Apple announcing that iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 will be releasing on 16 September, Thomas Domville gives us an overview of some of the new accessibility features that are coming. Topics covered in this podcast include:

Headphone accommodation
Sound recognition
Real-time TTY
FaceTime now detect sign language
Real-time headphone audio level measurement
VoiceOver Recognition
Back Tap
New voices for Voice Control
Magnifier improvements
Braille auto-panning
Photo and video captioning

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AppleVisPodcast1332.mp3 (13.48 MB)

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Thank you Mighty Mouse for the big announcement on iOS 14

I loved that iOS 14 will be released during my birthday month! Now hopefully I can use the apps that are currently inaccessible for me. I would love to play the inaccessible games too.
This is so cool!!! Thank you Apple for all of the new features!!!
Next please improve the accessibility of the Game Center and Apple Arkade, then this will be excellent for the blind community.

GM release?

What happen to the Gold Master release?

They did make a gm release…

They did make a gm release. I’m fixing to download it.

What happened to the other updates?

Swift, Swift UI and Swift Playgrounds
Still waiting for these.

When?

Last week was not GM. Did it came today? Strange.

The IOS/IPadOS 14 Gold…

The IOS/IPadOS 14 Gold Master, did indeed come out today. I'm about to update both my iPad Mini and iPhone 11 to said update, both at the same time.

Yes

I saw a youtube video on it after I posted this. It had no changes to iOS 14 beta 8. I will wait to tomorrow for it for my series 5, 11 pro max and if there are updates software for Airpads first gen.

I have the GM and it’s awesome!

I already updated my iPhone to the GM and it’s awesome!! I especially love the VoiceOver recognition feature. one app I use it with is Smule, a Karaoke singing app. This makes the app more accessible for me to use.

Yes, even though it had the…

Yes, even though it had the letter a in the end of the build. The letter a!

bug in IOS14

You no longer hear any notification tones while on a call this is a bug from iOS 13. is there any way to fix this?

Are you sure this is a bug and not a feature?

It seems like one wouldn't want notifications interrupting a phone call.

More Info about Back Tap

Thanks for the great overview! A couple of things to note about Back tap. It's available on the iPhone X as well as the XR and later. I assume that means it's also on the 8 since it came out the same year as the X, but I don't know that for sure. I do know it's on the X because I have one.

In addition to accessing Back Tap from VoiceOver's Commands screen, you can access it through Accessibility/Touch/Back Tap. From there, you can assign these gestures to different things, including any shortcuts you have created. You either set up both gestures here or both gestures in VoiceOver Settings; you can't set up one in one place and one in the other.