--- title: "How to Use the Screen Reader That's Built into Your iPhone" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-the-screen-reader-that-s-built-into-your-iphone-oghjt6966 source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-the-screen-reader-that-s-built-into-your-iphone type: article source: "freeCodeCamp" published: 2026-06-30T23:55:44.100Z updated: 2026-06-30T23:56:58.713Z tags: ["testing", "ios", "accessibility"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 2 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Use the Screen Reader That's Built into Your iPhone **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary iPhone and iPad include a built-in screen reader called VoiceOver that reads aloud text, buttons, menus, and other UI elements. This guide covers three ways to enable VoiceOver (Settings, Siri, or Accessibility Shortcut), five core gestures developers need to know for navigation, and how to adjust speaking rate and voice settings. Aimed at developers who want to manually test their websites for accessibility issues on real iOS devices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mdshafinahmed** · 1 upvotes > So much educative. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How to Use VoiceOver for Accessibility Testing on macOS](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-voiceover-for-accessibility-testing-on-macos-7sghamhz4) · Netguru · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [My Favorite Mac VoiceOver commands](https://daily.dev/posts/my-favorite-mac-voiceover-commands-gcbf8swmk) · thoughbot · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Testing A11y using screen readers](https://daily.dev/posts/testing-a11y-using-screen-readers-fwcp2ayyj) · Viget · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-the-screen-reader-that-s-built-into-your-iphone-oghjt6966)