Accessibility Nutrition Labels

Five years ago, Apple introduced Privacy Nutrition Labels to the App Store in iOS 14, helping users determine precisely how much of their personal information they’d need to surrender by downloading and installing a given app.

The concept was to provide a glanceable and easily understood summary, in the same way a nutrition label on a food product shows you the key stats without requiring you to wade through a bunch of text and lists of ingredients.

That turned out to be such a success that other app marketplaces have since adopted a similar technique. Now, Apple plans to expand it to allow users to know whether an app will meet their accessibility needs.

This is a feature that’s even more beneficial than the privacy labels, as it can save a lot of folks the trouble of discovering an app is unusable for them only after they’ve downloaded it.

Accessibility Nutrition Labels will indicate which of Apple’s core accessibility features each app supports, including VoiceOver, Voice Control, Larger Text, Sufficient Contrast, Reduced Motion, captions, and more. They’ll be available on the App Store worldwide when iOS 19 launches later this year, although it will still be up to developers to provide the necessary details so their product pages can display them.