Magnifier works like a digital magnifying glass, using the camera on your iPhone or iPad to increase the size of anything you point it at — from a prescription bottle to a candlelit menu. For those who are blind or have low vision and want more information about their physical surroundings, Detection?Mode in Magnifier combines input from the camera, LiDAR?Scanner and on-device machine learning to offer intelligent tools like People?Detection, Door?Detection, Image?Descriptions, Text Detection and Point and?Speak.⁴

If you’re standing in line, you can use People?Detection to determine a person’s proximity to you. Door?Detection can help you navigate by identifying doors, text and the presence of symbols — such as a restroom symbol, a no smoking symbol or an accessible-entrance symbol — within a few feet of you. Image?Descriptions and Text Detection let you hear more about people, objects, landscapes and text in your camera’s field of view. And Point and Speak makes it easier to interact with physical objects that have text, like household appliances, keypads or labels on files. As you point and move your finger over or under different buttons or elements, your iPhone or iPad reads the text out loud, so you can perform everyday activities and tasks with more ease and?independence.⁵