The iPhone accessibility It is something that has always caught our attention, and I am sure that many people find it very useful. Both in terms of vision and hearing problems. Apple puts a lot of emphasis on improving its products for these users.
That is why today we are going to see a function that not everyone knows and that is very interesting. It is integrated into the iPhone Pro models, since it uses their LiDAR scanner to measure distances and recognize objects.
Door recognition on iPhone
It may not be one of the best tools that iPhones have for you or me, although it is certainly curious. However, for many other people with vision problems, it may be, since it will guide them to where a door is, as well as the distance to it, and whether it is open or closed.
To activate this function, as we said, the first thing we will have is to have a compatible iPhone model. Which, as of today, are the following:
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 14 Pro
- iPhone 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 15 Pro
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 16 Pro
- iPhone 16 Pro Max
- iPhone 17 Pro
- iPhone 17 Pro Max
Once we are clear if our device can perform this function, we must perform the following stepsyes:
- Open the Magnifying glass appwhich comes natively on iOS (if you don't have it, download it).
- Touch the square icon formed by dashed lines to open the accessibility selection.
- We will have different icons, however, we are interested in the one of the door. Hit it, and voila, it will activate.
At this moment it will recognize the doors, as well as the distance to them, however, from the configuration, we can adjust different parameters, such as the sound it will make when we are approaching, very useful to know, if we cannot see, the distance to it, something very similar to reversing a car when parking.
We can also activate voice recognitionso that Siri tells us, in a spoken way, the meters we have to a door, even its color, shape, and even read if it has a number on it, which, if we are walking down the street, and we cannot see, is quite practical to know when we arrive at our destination.
In the same Lupa app, we have other tools of the same style that may also be interesting, such as detecting people, describing the environment, or reading textsamong others.
Surely it is something that any blind person knows, however, it is very curious to see how it works from the outside, and, although I hope it never happens, if we have to use it one day, we will know how it works. You can do the test with your eyes closed, see if you can cross your house without looking.
And you, did you know about this iPhone feature? Or did you just find out? The truth is that it is very interesting, although, personally, most of us will never use it, but it is good that everyone thinks about it, you never know when it could be us.
