Following the release of iOS 26 I was left with one strong impression (leaving liquid glass aside): Apple Intelligence seems pretty powerful. I’d love to be able to feed it an image along with some context about the use of the image, and get Apple Intelligence to generate an appropriate description. As a developer, there are times when alt text is not available because the person who chose the image didn’t add it, and this leaves VoiceOver users missing a ton of content.
With the first Beta release of iOS 27 and Xcode 27, we can do just that.
Rob Whitaker is a Senior iOS Engineer at Rightmove and a mobile accessibility specialist with a background that includes time on the accessibility team at Apple. He is an invited expert on the WCAG Mobile Accessibility Task Force, a conference speaker, and the author of Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps (Apress), a book for developers who believe that building for everyone is not a nice to have. Rob has spent his career at the intersection of clean Swift and inclusive design. He is available for select accessibility consulting projects.
