TechPhonesiPhonesAn iPhone update is coming that could mean an end to car sicknessApple’s accessibility updates will make reading during your commute or car journey a lot more pleasantWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesAn iPhone update is coming that could mean an end to car sicknessApple’s accessibility updates will make reading during your commute or car journey a lot more pleasantWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple’s accessibility updates will make reading during your commute or car journey a lot more pleasant
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Quick SummaryApple will add new accessibility features to its iPhones later this year, with one adjusting the experience for those who suffer from travel sickness.It’ll judge the motion and acceleration inside a vehicle and provide visual cues on the phone’s screen to help you adjust.
Apple will add new accessibility features to its iPhones later this year, with one adjusting the experience for those who suffer from travel sickness.It’ll judge the motion and acceleration inside a vehicle and provide visual cues on the phone’s screen to help you adjust.
Apple will add new accessibility features to its iPhones later this year, with one adjusting the experience for those who suffer from travel sickness.It’ll judge the motion and acceleration inside a vehicle and provide visual cues on the phone’s screen to help you adjust.
Apple will add new accessibility features to its iPhones later this year, with one adjusting the experience for those who suffer from travel sickness.
It’ll judge the motion and acceleration inside a vehicle and provide visual cues on the phone’s screen to help you adjust.
We’ve all done it: whether on a tilting train, a ferry, or in the passenger seat of a car, the desire to catch up on social media or look at that longread can sometimes leave you feeling distinctly queasy. Until now the best advice to avoid travel sickness was not to read, butApplehas a better idea and it’s bringing it to youriPhone.
Apple is bringing lots of new accessibility features toiOSlater this year, and one of the most interesting ones is called Vehicle Motion Cues.
It can detect the acceleration, deceleration and cornering of a vehicle, and when it does it then provides visual cues on the screen to help avoid the dreaded feelings of nausea. The examples Apple provides are based on being in a car but there’s no reason why the same feature can’t work with other modes of transport.
(Image credit: Apple)
(Image credit: Apple)
How do visual cues reduce car sickness?
To deal with that, Apple’s system will provide moving dots on the screen that are designed to replicate the movement you’d see if you weren’t glued to your iPhone. If the vehicle isn’t moving the cues, little black dots that live at the sides of your screen, don’t move either. But if you corner, they’ll move across your screen to reflect that.
There’s no firm date for when this new feature will arrive, but it’s most likely to be when iOS 18 releases – and that’s currently scheduled for the usual September launch. And the motion cues won’t be the only improved accessibility features.
Apple has also announced eye tracking that’ll enable you to navigate your iPhone oriPadusing only eye movements, and there will be new voice control for CarPlay and haptics for music later this year too. That latter feature will use the vibration motor of your iPhone to turn music into vibration in order to help people with hearing loss or deafness to experience music on their devices.
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