Apple launches new programme to teach blind children how to CODE

There's something powerful hiding in your iPhone. Buried in the settings – right between the option to make your phone talk to your car and the page that will tell you how much space youre using – are a range of features that could be the difference between being able to use an iPhone and not.

They are Apples accessibility features, and theyre ones about which the company is particularly proud. Clicking that option means being introduced to a whole range of different features: tools to allow your iOS device to describe what youre doing if youre not able to see it, and others that let it be entirely controlled by special switches if the fine touch targets of an iPhone prove troublesome.

For some people, those settings and features might go entirely unused: like CarPlay and the language options that they sit alongside, they might just be another option thats interesting but unpressed. But for other people, they might be the difference between being able to use the phone and not, and options that could provide a life-changing way of getting into new technology. Read more.....