Apple has unveiled a major expansion of its accessibility features, leveraging Apple Intelligence to enhance tools like VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control. The company announced the updates ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, with all features arriving later this year alongside iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27. These improvements build on Apple's long-standing commitment to making its devices usable by everyone.

VoiceOver Image Explorer now uses AI to provide detailed descriptions of photographs, scanned documents, and personal records throughout the system. The Magnifier app gains AI-powered visual descriptions accessible via the Action button, while Voice Control lets users describe onscreen elements conversationally—like "tap the purple folder"—instead of memorizing exact labels. Generated Subtitles use on-device speech recognition to auto-transcribe uncaptioned video across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. The headset also introduces Power Wheelchair Control using eye-tracking for users who cannot operate a joystick.

Additional updates include Vehicle Motion Cues in visionOS to reduce motion sickness, face gestures for Vision Pro navigation, improved hearing aid pairing across Apple devices, Name Recognition expanding to over 50 languages, larger text support for tvOS, Sony Access controller support for gaming, and a FaceTime API enabling sign language interpreters. The Hikawa Grip & Stand adaptive accessory is now available worldwide in three new colors.