iPhone User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for iPhone X and later
- Use 3D Touch for previews and shortcuts
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change the sounds and vibrations
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPhone
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPhone using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPhone
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Control audio on multiple devices
- AirPrint
- Use Apple EarPods
- Apple Watch
- Use Magic Keyboard
- Wireless charging
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Use iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Share your iPhone Internet connection
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPhone using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom in on the screen
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPhone software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Copyright
Use a braille display with VoiceOver on iPhone
You can use a Bluetooth braille display to read VoiceOver output, and a braille display with input keys and other controls to control iPhone when VoiceOver is turned on. For a list of supported braille displays, go to the Apple Support article Braille displays supported by iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Connect a braille display
Turn on the braille display.
On iPhone, go to Settings
> Bluetooth, turn on Bluetooth, then choose the display.On iPhone, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille, then choose the display.
Adjust the braille settings
On iPhone, go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille.Do any of the following:
Choose contracted, uncontracted eight-dot, or uncontracted six-dot braille input or output
Turn on the status cell and choose its location
Turn on Nemeth code for mathematical equations
Display the onscreen keyboard
Choose to have the page turned automatically when panning
Change the braille translation from Unified English
Change the alert display duration
Output closed captions in braille during media playback
On iPhone, go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Verbosity.Choose Braille or Speech and Braille.
For information about common braille commands for VoiceOver navigation, and for information specific to certain displays, see the Apple Support article Common braille commands for VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.