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You can use Personal Voice only to create a voice on your device that sounds like you using your own voice for your personal, noncommercial use. Personal Voice can be created using iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Apple silicon and is available in English for all locales. Detection Mode requires devices with the LiDAR Scanner. The LiDAR Scanner is available only on iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4), iPad Pro 13‑inch (M4), iPad Pro 12.9‑inch (4th generation or later), and iPad Pro 11‑inch (2nd generation or later). Door Detection and Point and Speak can read signs and labels in Cantonese (Simplified, Traditional), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), English (U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Spanish (Spain), and Ukrainian (Ukraine). Detection Mode should not be relied on in circumstances where you may be harmed or injured or in high-risk or emergency situations. Detection Mode with Action button is supported by iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max. Supports Arabic (World), Bangla (India), Basque, Bhojpuri (India), Bulgarian, Cantonese (Hong Kong), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, India, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, UK, U.S.), Farsi, Finnish, French (Belgium, Canada, France), Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Mandarin (China mainland, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan), Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Shanghainese (China mainland), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain), Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Valencian, and Vietnamese. VoiceOver Image Recognition works with iPad Pro with iPadOS 14 or later and iPhone XR or later with iOS 14 or later. For Mac, Image Recognition requires macOS Big Sur or later. Music Haptics are available on iPhone 12 and later (excluding iPhone SE). Sound Recognition should not be relied on in circumstances where you may be harmed or injured, in high-risk or emergency situations, or for navigation. The Hearing Aid feature has received FDA authorization. The Hearing Test and Hearing Aid features are supported on AirPods Pro 2 with the latest firmware paired with a compatible iPhone or iPad with iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 and later and are intended for people 18 years or older. The Hearing Aid feature is also supported on a compatible Mac with macOS Sequoia and later. It is intended for people with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss. The Hearing Protection feature works with AirPods Pro 2 with the latest firmware when paired with a compatible iPhone, iPad, or Mac with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or macOS Sequoia and later. Feature is available only in the U.S. and Canada. See support.apple.com/120850 for total attenuation and more information. The Hearing Protection feature is not suitable for protection against extremely loud impulse sounds, such as gunfire, fireworks, or jackhammers, or against sustained sounds louder that 110 dBA. AssistiveTouch for Apple Watch requires Apple Watch Series 4 or later. Eye Tracking is available on iPhone 12 and later, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad (10th generation), iPad Air (M2), iPad Air (4th generation and later), and iPad mini (6th generation). Voice Control spelling mode is available when users have their system language set to English (U.S.). Voice Control is not available in all areas and on all Apple software. Voice Control uses the Siri speech recognition engine for Cantonese (Hong Kong), Chinese (China mainland), English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.). Hearing Health features are subject to change. Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages. View complete list
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