This section explains how to enable and use Screen Speak in iOS 15, with step-by-step instructions and pictures of the screen to help.
1. Tap the Settings icon to open the Settings app. Scroll down and tap Accessibility.
2. In the Vision section, tap Spoken Content.
3. Tap Speak Screen to set the toggle switch to on. Speak Screen is now active.
4. You can also access and control Speak Screen using the on-screen Speech Controller. To enable it in the Spoken Content settings, tap Speech Controller. On the next screen, tap Show Controller to set the toggle switch to on. The Speech Controller will appear in the bottom right of the screen. You can drag the controller to a different position around the edge of the screen if you prefer.
5. After a few seconds of inactivity the controller becomes semi-transparent, which can make it difficult to see. To change the opacity level, tap Idle Opacity then move the slider on the next screen to adjust the opacity.
6. You can also set Speak Screen to highlight text as it's read aloud, and set how this works and looks. To set this up, tap Highlight Content.
7. Tap Highlight Content to turn the toggle switch on, then select Words, Sentences or Words and Sentences to choose whether the highlight will appear on words as they’re spoken, on sentences, or both.
8. Choose a highlight style for your highlight, by selecting Underline or Background Colour. You can also tap Word Colour or Sentence Colour to select a colour for that type of highlight.
9. To activate Speak Screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen. The Speech Controller will appear on-screen and the contents of the screen will be read aloud. Alternatively, if you have enabled the Speech Controller, tap it and then tap the Play button.
This diagram shows the controls on the Speech Controller.