An accessibility feature that is useful for everyone is Spoken Content. You can have your phone read out loud anything you have on-screen. This feature was designed for people who have trouble reading small text, but you will find it handy even if you don’t — in lots of situations.
How to make your iPhone read text out loud
In Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content, you can enable Speak Selection and Speak Screen. Dictation uses the same voice you use for Siri, but you can select Voices to pick a different one. (You also can change Siri’s voice by going back to Settings > Siri & Search > Siri Voice.)
After selecting text on websites, iMessages or in Photos, select ‘Speak’ to hear it read out loud.
Speak the entire screen
To speak the entire contents of the screen, swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. This gesture can take some practice to get right — swipe down from the centre, a little bit below the notch.
When you activate it, your phone will dictate a full article in Safari, an entire iMessage conversation, all of the text in a picture and more — and you don’t have to select anything first. A control will appear on-screen where you can change the dictation speed, pause, and skip forward or backward. Your phone will continue reading to you even if you switch to a different app.
If you have a hard time doing the swipe-down gesture and you want to read the entire screen on a regular basis, you can keep the Speech Controller on-screen all the time. Go back to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content > Speech Controller and turn on Show Controller. It won’t get in the way — you can make it transparent by setting the Idle Opacity and you can move it out of the way by dragging it around.
