The Eye Tracking accessibility feature follows the movement of your eyes as you gaze at the screen, select items, and activate controls.
Most people navigate their iPhone or iPad with their fingers, but Apple recently added eye tracking to its suite of accessibility features, which also supporthead-andvoice-based gestures.
Known as Eye Tracking, this new accessibility option is available iniOS 18andiPadOS 18on iPhone 12 and up and follows the movement of your eyes as you look at the screen, select items, and activate controls. An onscreen pointer shows where your eyes are looking, and a dwell control lets you perform a specific action by holding your gaze on an item for a few seconds.
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Eye Tracking is designed for people with physical disabilities, but anyone can use it. It doesn’t require any extra hardware or accessories to activate physical buttons, swipes, and other gestures across all your apps.
Tapping into artificial intelligence, Eye Tracking uses the front-facing camera to track your eye movements. You can set up and calibrate the feature relatively quickly. Any data used to set up and control Eye Tracking is processed through machine learning and secured on the device and isn’t shared with Apple. Now, here’s how this works.
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Turn on Eye Tracking
First, you’ll need to update your iPhone to iOS 18 and your iPad to iPadOS 18, if you haven’t already. Head toSettings > General > Software Updateand install the new OS. To enable Eye Tracking, go toSettings > Accessibility > Eye Trackingand enableEye Tracking.
You’ll be prompted to calibrate the tracking by following a dot around the screen. For best results, make sure your face is well lit and the phone’s camera has a clear view. The phone should also be on a stable surface about a foot and a half away from your face.
Follow the dot with the gaze of your eyes. When you’re done, a checkmark appears on the screen, indicating that you’ve successfully completed the setup. Whenever you turn off Eye Tracking and then turn it back on, you’ll need to go through the calibration again.
You’re then returned to the Eye Tracking settings screen, where you can get a feel for eye tracking. Move your gaze slowly up and then back down. You’ll see an outline around each icon, setting, or other item as you adjust your gaze.
To rest on a certain control, keep your gaze on that area as outlined by the cursor. A circular icon will then appear. Rest your gaze on the control you wish to activate or change. When that icon is fully circled, then the control will activate or deactivate.
Change Eye Tracking Settings
At the Eye Tracking settings screen, you can tweak its behavior. The Smoothing option controls the movement of the pointer. Move the slider to the right to make the movement smoother. Note that moving it too far to the right could decrease its responsiveness.
Snap to Item automatically snaps the pointer to the nearest item as you gaze around the screen. The Zoom on Keyboard Keys option zooms in when the pointer is resting on one of the keys on the keyboard. Turn the switch off or on for each of the options to test them.
Snap to Item automatically snaps the pointer to the nearest item as you gaze around the screen. The Zoom on Keyboard Keys option zooms in when the pointer is resting on one of the keys on the keyboard. Turn the switch off or on for each of the options to test them.
Turn on Auto-Hide to automatically hide the cursor when you look away. Tap the plus (+) and minus (–) keys to set the amount of time you need to gaze at the screen to display the cursor again. Move the slider to decrease the visibility of the pointer when you’re in Auto-Hide mode.
You can also customize the onscreen pointer to increase or decrease the size and change the color. Head to Settings > Accessibility > Pointer Control and move the slider on the Pointer Size to alter the size of the pointer. Tap Color to change the color to white, blue, red, green, yellow, or orange.
Enable and Tweak Dwell Control
EnablingDwell Controlin the Eye Tracking settings menu allows you to hold your gaze on a switch or other object to perform the designated action. For example, holding your gaze on a switch will turn it on or off. To further customize Dwell Control, tapAssistiveTouchto bring up the AssistiveTouch menu.
Choose the Dwell Control icon to turn the feature off or on, switch the default action between Tap and Pause Dwell, adjust the distance you can gaze while dwelling on an item, and set up specific actions when you dwell in any of the four corners of the screen.
How to Use Eye Tracking
Once everything is set up, you’ll want to take Eye Tracking for a spin on your iPhone. Go to the Home screen and point your gaze in different areas of the screen to see how the cursor moves. Rest your gaze on a specific icon to open the associated app.
You’ll need to use AssistiveTouch to perform more types of actions with Eye Tracking. To activate this, hold your gaze on the AssistiveTouch circle moving around the screen. After the menu appears, direct your eyes toward the icon for the action you want to perform. For example, to return to the Home screen, hold your gaze on the Home icon.
Recalibrate Eye Tracking
If the pointer isn’t responding accurately to your eye movements or gaze, try recalibrating the feature. Return toSettings > Accessibility > Eye Trackingand turn the switch off and back on.
As you go through the setup again, keep your iPhone as steady as possible and 1.5 feet away from your face. Also, don’t try to anticipate where the calibration circle is going to appear. Keep your gaze steady on the current spot and move your eyes as the circle moves to the next spot.
