Apple Highlights Magnifier on Mac and iPhone Music Haptics in New Videos

Apple today shared new videos that highlight the upcoming Accessibility features that the company plans to introduce with iOS 19 and macOS 16. Apple this week debuted a number of new Accessibility options that will be coming later this year to honor Global Accessibility Awareness Day.


The first video, uploaded to Apple's main YouTube channel, shows off the Magnifier on Mac feature. We saw this video Tuesday in Apple's newsroom post, but it's now easier to watch over on YouTube. In the spot, a woman uses an iPhone connected to her Mac in a classroom setting to zoom in on the chalkboard so she can better see the professor's notes and diagrams.

Magnifier on Mac uses the ‌iPhone‌ camera's zoom feature, beaming the feed to a Mac through Continuity Camera. There are options for creating multiple live session windows for tracking a presentation while also zooming in on a textbook, and each view can be customized with different brightness levels and color and contrast filters to suit individual needs. Magnifier on Mac is an extension of the existing Magnifier option on the ‌iPhone‌, which allows the ‌iPhone‌ to be used to zoom in on text and detect objects.

Apple's second video was shared on the Apple Music YouTube channel, and it focuses on Music Haptics on ‌iPhone‌. Introduced as part of iOS 18, Music Haptics provides taps, textures, and vibrations to the audio of music that's playing, so that users who are deaf or hard of hearing can experience songs.


In iOS 19, Apple plans to expand Music Haptics, adding new customization options. Users will be able to experience haptics for a whole song or for vocals only, and there will be settings to adjust the intensity of taps, textures, and vibrations.

Popular Stories

iOS 26 Feature

iOS 26.1 to iOS 26.4 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

Saturday October 18, 2025 11:00 am PDT by
iOS 26 was released last month, but the software train never stops, and iOS 26.1 beta testing is already underway. So far, iOS 26.1 makes both Apple Intelligence and Live Translation on compatible AirPods available in additional languages, and it includes some other minor changes across the Apple Music, Calendar, Photos, Clock, and Safari apps. More features and changes will follow in future ...
ios 26 1 liquid glass opaque

iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency with New Toggle

Monday October 20, 2025 10:57 am PDT by
With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize the look of Liquid Glass. The toggle lets users select from a clear look for Liquid Glass, or a tinted look. Clear is the current Liquid Glass design, which is more transparent and shows the background underneath buttons, bars, and menus, while tinted ...
iPhone Siri Glow

Some Apple Employees Have 'Concerns' About iOS 26.4's Revamped Siri

Sunday October 19, 2025 7:39 am PDT by
iOS 26.4 is expected to introduce a revamped version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence, but not everyone is satisfied with how well it works. In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said some of Apple's software engineers have "concerns" about the overhauled Siri's performance. However, he did not provide any specific details about the shortcomings. iOS 26.4 will...
iOS 26

iOS 26.0.2 Update for iPhones Coming Soon

Friday October 17, 2025 7:35 am PDT by
Apple's software engineers continue to internally test iOS 26.0.2, according to MacRumors logs, which have been a reliable indicator of upcoming iOS versions. iOS 26.0.2 will be a minor update that addresses bugs and/or security vulnerabilities, but we do not know any specific details yet. The update will likely be released by the end of next week. Last month, Apple released iOS 26.0.1,...
Apple iPad Pro hero M5

New iPad Pro Has Six Key Upgrades Beyond M5 Chip

Saturday October 18, 2025 10:57 am PDT by
While the new iPad Pro's headline feature is the M5 chip, the device has some other changes, including N1 and C1X chips, faster storage speeds, and more. With the M5 chip, the new iPad Pro has up to a 20% faster CPU and up to a 40% faster GPU compared to the previous model with the M4 chip, according to Geekbench 6 results. Keep in mind that 256GB and 512GB configurations have a 9-core CPU,...
maxresdefault

Here's How the iOS 26.1 Transparency Toggle Changes Liquid Glass

Monday October 20, 2025 1:55 pm PDT by
With the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, Apple added a toggle that makes Liquid Glass more opaque and reduces transparency. We tested the beta to see where the toggle works and what it looks like. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. If you have the latest iOS 26.1 beta, you can go to Settings > Display and Brightness to get to the new option. Tap on Liquid Glass, then...
iOS 26

What's New in iOS 26.1 Beta 4

Monday October 20, 2025 1:02 pm PDT by
Even though we're at the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, Apple is continuing to add new features. In fact, the fourth beta has some of the biggest changes that we'll get when iOS 26.1 releases to the public later this month. We've rounded up what's new below. Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle Apple added a toggle for customizing the look of Liquid Glass. In Settings > Display and Brightness,...
HomePod mini and Apple TV

Apple's Next Rumored Products: New HomePod Mini, Apple TV, and More

Thursday October 16, 2025 9:13 am PDT by
Apple on Wednesday updated the 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro with its next-generation M5 chip, but previous rumors have indicated that the company still plans to announce at least a few additional products before the end of the year. The following Apple products have at one point been rumored to be updated in 2025, although it is unclear if the timeframe for any of them has...

Top Rated Comments

Siriosys Avatar
23 weeks ago
For those unaware, National AccessAbility Week runs from May 26 to June 1

Hence the “focus” on this by Apple at present.

As a “Rubella baby” as we were called, born partially blind and thankfully with no hearing deficits, I went through school at a time when there was limited to no support for blind students outside of specialist schools. It was ****, to say the very least.

When Apple introduced the screen reader VoiceOver on Macs in 2005, it was the start of something that opened up ease-of-use for me on computers, but when they began including accessibility features in 2009 with the iPhone 3GS, which offered VoiceOver, Zoom, Mono Audio, and White-on-Black, this was a total GAME CHANGER.

Two years later, only a week after SJ passed away, I read his Bio using Apple Books on my iPhone. It was a ground-breaking moment for me.

As I finished the Bio, I sat there thinking about the sadness of his passing, but the magnificence of what had just happened in that moment. For the first time in my adult life, I had been able to read and finish a whole book just like anybody else could, sitting in a cafe on a hand-held device and without the need for clunky screen readers or over-sized books in enormous fonts that weighed as much as the typewriter that would’ve produced them.

Apple’s willingness to invest huge amounts of money and time into making their ecosystem of hardware and software accessible to a minority of customers including me is why I have a strong sense of gratitude to their support and efforts in this area.

For me and those in similar situations, Apple’s efforts directly impact our day-to-day lives in a positive way by empowering us to be independent and a contributing member of society.
Score: 29 Votes (Like | Disagree)
the_saltminer Avatar
23 weeks ago

And based on the ad itself, the student's focus was on fidgeting with tech instead of listening to the professor. I don't think it is great tech if students need to click around and make image processing decision during class.
Now you know what people with disabilities have to deal with in a world that makes few accommodations for them.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MayaUser Avatar
23 weeks ago
Accessibility at its best with Apple
Thank you
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
woolypants Avatar
23 weeks ago
Guys, guys, I've just noticed something. I've seen a LOT of Apple ads over the years.

Does anybody over the age of 25 use Apple stuff?
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Lounge vibes 05 Avatar
23 weeks ago

Great tech. But as a professor myself, this makes me feel uncomfortable: students are not allowed to record a lecture without the lecturer's permission. Based on the ad itself, there is no way to tell if it's for accessibility or to film.

Simple advice for those who are looking into using it: be a decent person and just explain your intention to the lecturer, and politely asks if they're comfortable with it.
I’m a person who has needed tons of accommodations throughout my life, you ask on the first day and then the professor just gets used to it.
In this ad, it’s clearly not her first class, so presumably she would have *already* explained the accommodations she needed to the professor, on the first day.
But literally anything to complain, I guess
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Lounge vibes 05 Avatar
23 weeks ago

a little startled that Apple would put an adhesive doohickey in an ad

I’m not sure if I’ve even a Macbook with a sticker in an ad, or a third-party thingy of any kind
This is literally an apple commercial from 11 years ago…
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)