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If you find sometimes you struggle to see text as your typing it, maybe in a form or search box then both Hover Type and Typing Feedback may be able to help.
Hover Type is a new feature in iOS 18 which provides a window containing large text as you type. This means you can focus on this textbox rather than hunting around the screen for the text you are typing.
Typing feedback has existed for some time, and will speak either the characters, or words as you type. Helping to prevent you from typing a long passage of text only to realise you made a typing error.
Watch our tutorial on Hover Type and Typing Feedback
Hover Type
Hover type enlarges the text as you type, and also allow you to customize its appearance. To activate hover type
- Tap Settings
- Choose Accessibility
- Choose Keyboards and Typing
- Choose Hover Typing
- Ensure that Hover Typing is turned on.
- Make any adjustments you want to font, font size and colour.
Now when you type, an enlarged version of the text will appear in a window.
Typing Feedback
Typing feedback will speak each character and/or word as you type. To turn on typing feedback
- Tap Settings
- Choose Accessibility
- Choose Keyboards and Typing
- Choose Typing Feedback
- Turn on the options you require.
Available Options
- Speak Characters – Announces each character as you type it – you can set a delay so it only announces the character if you hold the key down.
- Speak Words – Announces the word you have just typed when you press the space bar
- Speak Auto-Text – Announces when autotext has made changes
- Hold to speak predictions—Hold your finger on a predictive text option to have it spoken to you. This is useful for describing suggested emojis.