[NJTechDiv] sharing your accessibility features, interesting read friends!

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By Joe Lonergan – V I Labs



Did you know that Apple have added a great feature to iOS 26, where you can share your Accessibility settings with another iPhone or iPad?

You can share these settings across all your own devices using iCloud or you can temporarily share your Accessibility settings with another iPhone or iPad. For example, if you’re borrowing a friend’s iPhone or using a public iPad, you can share your Accessibility settings with the other device and remove them when you’re finished. Some settings you can share with another device include:



  *   Zoom
  *   Hover Text and Hover Typing
  *   Display & Text
  *   VoiceOver
  *   Touch Accommodations
  *   Read & Speak
  *   Full Keyboard Access
  *   Live Speech
  *   Music Haptics
  *   Audio & Visual
  *   Side Button



In our case as a vision impaired community the most common Accessibility settings to share will be VoiceOver or Zoom settings.

Please note, If you are sharing with a friend or public iPad only your Accessibility settings will be shared with the other device during the sharing session.



So why would you want to share Accessibility settings?



Sharing might be handy if you are asked to help a friend with their iPad or you want to borrow a friend’s iPad to do a task. Or you might be asked to fill in a questionnaire on a public iPad or sign something on a public iPad, but whatever the reason at least you can do it, and it gives you access to the device.



How to share your Accessibility settings with another device



  1.  Go to Settings and then Accessibility
  2.  Scroll all the way down to the very bottom
  3.  Tap on Share Accessibility Settings
  4.  You will have to tap Share Accessibility Settings again and then tap Continue
  5.  Make sure Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are turned on in both devices.



Now do the following:



  1.  If you are sharing to an iPhone, just hold your iPhone to the top of another iPhone.
  2.  If you are sharing to an iPad, go close to the iPad and Search People Nearby, then tap and hold the screen on the other device with three fingers to create a six-digit code. If you keep your three fingers held on the other device you will start to hear the code been read aloud.
  3.  Now enter the code on your own device to verify the process.
  4.  Back to the other device, now tap Accept.

Now start using the other device with your own Accessibility settings that you are used to.



Finally, to stop sharing your Accessibility settings, just lock the other device and let it go asleep.

We will have more iOS 26 tips in future articles. This is one feature we like, and we hope it becomes even easier to enable in future updates.

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