My mom really needs this technology to work…she can not use anything but her eyes right now and can’t communicate now for over a month…this could be a game changer if it works and doesn’t just frustrate her. Fingers crossed!
This feature is also available on Mac. I’m curious why you mentioned only iPhone and iPad. I’ve had this feature on Mac for a long time. In the Settings app, Accessibility, Pointer control, you can find cool options like setting facial expressions to drag, pucker lips for secondary or regular clicks, and blink the eyes for double clicks.
Once set up, I went back to my home page and it started the calibration processes again and so I swiped up and for some reason it locked my phone from being able to swipe up. I opened an app via a notification and I could not exit the app. Not even locking my phone worked. Couldn’t even swipe up to start the unlock. Had to ask Siri to open settings app and turn off the eye tracker. (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 18.0.1).
I was seeing a patient that could only move his eyes and close them, it was the only way he could communicate and that was why he was trained by the OT to use a Tobii eye tracker. It was a bit cumbersome but it worked, although the OT decided to only enable the speech module. When the iPad eye tracking feature was announced, I was hoping for it to work better than the Tobii, it would be fantastic for the price, but I was not as confident when I personally tried it out on a M1 iPad Air, so I scrapped the idea to not give false hopes to the patient and his family. It would be cool to test if the infrared cameras on the newer iPhones and the Pro iPads have a better understanding of the eye movement, because it seems the camera-only recognition is not that good.
The background music is too loud, especially since it is annoying generic elevator music. I find it distracting. Turn it down 3-6db. I wish the voice were a 1/2 octave lower in tone as well. I know it may be clearer but it sounds perky and patronizing. To Apple I may be a child or product but you could try to make it less obvious. All that said, it is a good instruction video. I really appreciate the efforts to improve accessibility for the disabled.
I’ve tried it as my Dad diagnosed with MND and is not able to speak or type. However, I found it is unusable as well. I wonder how you did it differently to make it to work?
My mom really needs this technology to work…she can not use anything but her eyes right now and can’t communicate now for over a month…this could be a game changer if it works and doesn’t just frustrate her. Fingers crossed!
good luck! create is with your mom
Same here. ALS is devastating. Everything should have eye tracking. I'll be fully exploring the limits of this technology from Apple.
Any updates on how well it works?
This feature is also available on Mac. I’m curious why you mentioned only iPhone and iPad. I’ve had this feature on Mac for a long time. In the Settings app, Accessibility, Pointer control, you can find cool options like setting facial expressions to drag, pucker lips for secondary or regular clicks, and blink the eyes for double clicks.
Once set up, I went back to my home page and it started the calibration processes again and so I swiped up and for some reason it locked my phone from being able to swipe up. I opened an app via a notification and I could not exit the app. Not even locking my phone worked. Couldn’t even swipe up to start the unlock. Had to ask Siri to open settings app and turn off the eye tracker. (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 18.0.1).
I was seeing a patient that could only move his eyes and close them, it was the only way he could communicate and that was why he was trained by the OT to use a Tobii eye tracker. It was a bit cumbersome but it worked, although the OT decided to only enable the speech module. When the iPad eye tracking feature was announced, I was hoping for it to work better than the Tobii, it would be fantastic for the price, but I was not as confident when I personally tried it out on a M1 iPad Air, so I scrapped the idea to not give false hopes to the patient and his family. It would be cool to test if the infrared cameras on the newer iPhones and the Pro iPads have a better understanding of the eye movement, because it seems the camera-only recognition is not that good.
What a neat feature! Hopefully it works well…
The background music is too loud, especially since it is annoying generic elevator music. I find it distracting. Turn it down 3-6db. I wish the voice were a 1/2 octave lower in tone as well. I know it may be clearer but it sounds perky and patronizing. To Apple I may be a child or product but you could try to make it less obvious.
All that said, it is a good instruction video. I really appreciate the efforts to improve accessibility for the disabled.
❤❤❤Love this
make the click with face gesture recognition
iphone SE 3rd generation???
Thanks
Thanks but what about iPad M1 is this available in it
Yes, the 5th generation iPad Pro is the M1
And the 5th gen iPad Air
It hurts my eyes.
My eyes hurt because I tripped over them and looked where they were going.
But like eye tracking
Just tired it... It works remarkably well. I imagine this is revolutionary to anybody who needs it. Amazing job!
I’ve tried it as my Dad diagnosed with MND and is not able to speak or type. However, I found it is unusable as well. I wonder how you did it differently to make it to work?
I have the ios 18.2 update and I don’t have eye tracking
what device do you have?
make sure that your device is compatible, heres the list of compatible devices 0:17
I have the 3rd Gen iPad Pro, but the feature is not even available in the setting after updating to iPadOS 18.1.
It says in the beginning which iPads it supports and yours isn’t one of them
And the best part is, it does not work properly.
I’m such a huge fan of Apple. But even I have to say. It’s almost unusable. But I’m sure it’s useful for people who actually need this accessibility
I agree. This seems like a really good feature, but this wouldn’t work for me, as I’m vision impaired and my eyes move around way too much lol.
Glad both of you at least understand that its made to solve problems to a specific group of people 😂
Apple made its product...UNIVERSAL...
I found the same. Could not get it to work. My Dad is diagnosed with MND and really needs it now.
Probably doesn’t work because I have a lazy eye 😢
Thanks for adding this feature to IOS.