Apple has announced new accessibility features for iOS users who feel nauseous while trying to use their phone or tablet in a moving car. As per the company, motion sickness is commonly caused by a sensory conflict between what a person sees and what they feel. To combat this issue, the tech giant will roll out a new feature called Vehicle Motion Cues for iPhones and iPads that can help reduce motion sickness for passengers in moving vehicles. As per the blog post, all these new accessibility features are coming later this year.
Apple mentioned in its blog post that with the Vehicle Motion Cues feature, animated dots on the edges of the screen represent changes in vehicle motion to help reduce sensory conflict without interfering with the main content. “Using sensors built into the iPhone and iPad, Vehicle Motion Cues recognises when a user is in a moving vehicle and responds accordingly. The feature can be set to show automatically on the iPhone or can be turned on and off in the Control Center,” it added.
In addition to the Vehicle Motion Cues feature, the tech giant continues to focus on accessibility by introducing several features for users with disabilities. One of them is called eye tracking, and as the name suggests, users can navigate, scroll, and access functions like physical buttons, swipes, and other gestures solely with their eyes on their iPhone or iPad screen.
Another feature on the list is voice shortcuts for even more hands-free control and support for custom vocabularies and complex words, colour filters, and sound recognition features in CarPlay. Using these features, passengers or drivers who are deaf or hard of hearing can turn on alerts to be notified of sirens and car horns.
Moreover, Apple has introduced a new Music Haptic feature that allows users who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience music on their iPhone. Apple said, “With this accessibility feature turned on, the Taptic Engine in the iPhone plays taps, refined vibrations, and textures to the audio of the music.”
“Music Haptics works across millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog, and will be available as an API for developers to make music more accessible in their apps,” it added.
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