How to share your Accessibility Settings with another device on iPad

You can share your Accessibility settings with another iPhone or iPad temporarily. Say you’re borrowing a friend’s iPhone or using a public iPad: You can share your settings with that device, then remove them once you’re done. Here are some of the settings you can share with another device:

• Zoom
• Hover Text and Hover Typing
• Display & Text
• VoiceOver
• Touch Accommodations
• Read & Speak
• Full Keyboard Access
• Live Speech
• Music Haptics
• Audio & Visual
• Top Button and Home Button

Note: Your Accessibility settings are the only thing shared with the other device during the sharing session.

Share your Accessibility settings with another device

1. Start the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Accessibility, then tap Share Accessibility Settings. (You may need to scroll down.)
3. Tap Share Accessibility Settings, then tap Continue.
4. Make sure both devices have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on and then do one of the following:
   • Select a device: Tap a device in your contacts or a device signed in to your iCloud account.
   • Bring your iPad to another device: Tap Search People Nearby and tap and hold the screen on the other device with three fingers to create a six-digit code. Enter the code on your device and select the name of the device.

     Note: To hear the six-digit code spoken aloud, continue to tap and hold the screen on the other device with three fingers.

5. Do either of the following on the other device to accept your request to share your accessibility settings:
   • Tap Accept.
   • Tap and hold the screen on the other device with three fingers.
6. Start using the other device with your Accessibility settings.
7. When you’re finished using the device, do any of the following:
   • Tap the Share Accessibility Settings button in the Status Bar, then tap Stop Sharing.
   • Lock your device and let it go to sleep.
   • Triple-click the top button or Home button.

     Note: If you move more than 30 feet away from the device you’re sharing your Accessibility settings with, the session automatically ends.

Adding Share Accessibility settings to your Control Center lets you start sharing directly from Control Center; see our guide, Customize controls.

Sync your Share Accessibility Settings to iCloud

Syncing your preferences to iCloud helps if you use different Accessibility settings on different devices, since they’re then available when you share Accessibility settings between devices. For example, after you sync your iPad settings, you could later use your iPhone to share with another iPad, and your iPad accessibility preferences can be used.

1. Start the Settings app on your iPad.
2. Tap Accessibility, then tap Share Accessibility Settings. (You may need to scroll down.)
3. Turn Sync to iCloud on or off.

See also

• Get started with accessibility features on iPad
• Quickly turn accessibility features on or off on iPad