User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Use iPad with iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC
- Accessibility
- Get started with accessibility features on iPad
- Turn on accessibility features during setup
- Change accessibility settings
- VoiceOver
- Turn on and practice VoiceOver on iPad
- Change your VoiceOver settings on iPad
- Learn VoiceOver gestures on iPad
- Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor on iPad
- Use the onscreen keyboard with VoiceOver on iPad
- Write with your finger using VoiceOver on iPad
- Use VoiceOver on iPad with an Apple external keyboard
- Use a braille display with VoiceOver on iPad
- Type braille directly on iPad using VoiceOver
- Customize VoiceOver gestures and keyboard shortcuts on iPad
- Use VoiceOver on iPad with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps on iPad
- Vision
- Zoom in on the iPad screen
- Magnify nearby objects with Magnifier on iPad
- Detect people around you using Magnifier on iPad
- Adjust the display and text size on iPad
- Reduce or stop the motion of screen elements on iPad
- Hear iPad speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback
- Hear audio descriptions for video content on iPad
- Touch
- Physical and Motor
- Change Face ID and attention settings on iPad
- Switch Control
- Use Voice Control to interact with iPad
- Adjust settings for the Home or top button
- Use buttons on the Apple TV Remote on iPad
- Change the pointer appearance when using a mouse or trackpad with iPad
- Adjust the onscreen and external keyboard settings on iPad
- Adjust the settings for AirPods Max and AirPods Pro on iPad
- Change Apple Pencil (2nd generation) settings
- Hearing
- General
- Get started with accessibility features on iPad
OpentheItemChooser Two-fingertriple-tap.
Tomovequicklythroughthelistofitems,typeaname
inthesearchfield,swiperightorlefttomovethrough
thelistalphabetically,ortapthetableindextothe
rightofthelistandswipeupordown.Youcanalso
usehandwritingtoselectanitembywritingitsname.
TodismisstheItemChooserwithoutmakinga
selection,doatwo-fingerscrub(movetwofingers
backandforththreetimesquickly,makinga“z”).
UsetheVoiceOverrotor
YoucanusetherotortochangeVoiceOversettings,jumpfromoneitemtothenextonthescreen,
selectspecialinputmethodssuchasBrailleScreenInputorHandwriting,andmore.Fordetails,see
ControlVoiceOverusingtherotoroniPad.
Usethesegesturestousetherotor.
Action Gesture
Choosearotorsetting Two-fingerrotation
Movetothepreviousitemorincrease(dependingon
therotorsetting)
Swipeup
Movetothenextitemordecrease(dependingonthe
rotorsetting)
Swipedown
OperateiPadusingVoiceOvergestures
WhenVoiceOverison,youneedtousespecialgesturestounlockiPad,gototheHomeScreen,open
ControlCenter,switchapps,andmore.
UnlockiPad
OnaniPadwithaHomebutton:PresstheHomebutton(ifTouchIDisenabled).
OniPadAir(4thgeneration):Pressthetopbutton(ifTouchIDisenabled).
OnaniPadwithFaceID:WakeiPadandglanceatit,thendragupfromthebottomedgeofthe
screenuntilyouheartworisingtones(ifFaceIDisenabled).
Ifprompted,enteryourpasscode.Toavoidhavingyourpasscodespokenasyouenterit,enteryour
passcodesilentlyusinghandwritingmodeortypeonscreenbraille.
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