Living Blindfully
living your best life with blindness and low vision
11 days ago

Episode 300:A comprehensive look at iOS 18 from a blindness perspective

Here are the topics covered in this episode, and the time in the file for each.

Welcome to 300 0:00 Join us for our special Apple event coverage 1:03 Update on the Vision Australia CEO controversy 2:09 Introduction to the iOS18 review 7:08 Supported devices 8:00 VoiceOver What's New 9:20 The Live Recognition Rotor 10:40 Voice Rotor, customisation, equalisation 13:45 Use your Personal Voice with VoiceOver 22:57 A new approach to Audio Ducking 25:18 VoiceOver Tutorial 27:07 Haptic vibration at VoiceOver start 30:27 Delay before selection 30:58 Separate Braille input and output tables 32:44 Reconnect Braille display 35:13 Item Chooser for Braille 35:44 Braille Screen Input gets a significant revamp 38:00 Custom vocabulary with voice control 53:36 Vocal Shortcuts 54:50 Music Haptics 1:06:30 New background sounds 1:07:33 More powerful Control Centre 1:09:11 Voice Memos 1:21:07 Notes 1:29:09 Calculations in edit fields 1:34:54 Changes to the Files app 1:37:15 Messages 1:40:18 Emergency features 1:52:51 Locking and hiding apps 1:54:24 Apple Music 2:00:23 The Passwords app 2:02:10 Gaming Mode 2:15:09 Battery care 2:16:21 Phone 2:19:41 Wallet 2:23:06 AirPods 2:23:50 TV 2:24:23 Home 2:25:18 Calculator 2:25:53 Calendar 2:26:15 Podcasts 2:28:49 Conclusion 2:29:02 Closing 2:29:38