Apple’s iPhone Magnifier Adds Text-to-Speech and Scene Detection in Free App
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Updated · ZDNet · Aug 18
Apple’s iPhone Magnifier Adds Text-to-Speech and Scene Detection in Free App
1 articles · Updated · ZDNet · Aug 18
Summary
Apple’s preinstalled iPhone Magnifier app can do more than zoom small print, offering text-to-speech, plain-text transcription and scene description as built-in accessibility tools.
Reader mode appears after users capture text, turning a label or page into a transcript and letting the phone read it aloud.
Detect can be enabled from settings to identify text, describe scenes or use Point & Speak, with automatic readouts available for recognized text.
The app has been on iPhone and iPad since 2016, became a standalone app with iOS 14 in 2020, and is also available on macOS.