I love my iPhone. It has a lot of great feature for VIPs and the voice over is easy to learn.

Im blind. I and all my visually impaired friends use the iphone. Voiceover is a breeze to use once you get past the initial learning curve
You can check out www.applevis.com to find tutorials on how to use Apple devices for visually impaired people

I'll throw in something about Android. The screen reader, TalkBack, is definitely usable, but lacks some of the quality of life features that VoiceOver has. The split tap feature, where you can explore with one finger and single-tap with another while the first is still touching the screen to activate the item under the first finger, isn't present on Android. TalkBack is slower, and lacks an easy way to turn on and off on some phones. There are many more apps designed for the blind on the iPhone as well. Android does have a bookshare app, KNFB reader, and a seldom updated version of nearby explorer, but most accessibility conscious devs are probably developing for iOS.

Android uses a separate app to handle braille support, and I think it hasn't been updated in a while.

It does allow you to download 3rd party TTS engines, including Eloquence. I also like their magnifier better.

I'd highly recommend the IPhone. If he has bigger hands, you may want to go with the plus models or what ever the bigger models are called, but if he has small or average sized hands then a normal IPhone will do.

I am completely blind and use Voiceover every day to write and reply to texts, go on the internet, use apps like Youtube, (I'm quite sure you know what youtube is but if you don't, it's an app/website with thousands of videos on anything you could want) Ootunes (a radio app) and Seeing AI (an app that allows you to scan text on boxes bottles et cetra and have the text read out to you.)

I'm not a huge podcast fan but I do listen to a Harry Potter podcast called Dear MR Potter.

There's even games like Crafting Kingdom.


As someone else said on here; go to www.applevis.com to find out more.

On applevis, there are getting started guides for VoiceOver.

I’m legally blind and I’ve been using iPhone since 2011, I had the iPhone 4, the 5c in 2014 and I now have the SE I got in 2016 and I love iPhone even if it pisses me off at times I’m comfortable using it and Voiceover and the large text make it very user friendly.

I will also throw a vote in for iPhone. As other people have said it is not really about the increased text size though I am sure it can do that as well. Voiceover requires no sight to use or navigate all features on the phone. With an iPhone using voiceover he can send and receive texts, read web pages, listen to podcasts or music, or even read a book. Hopefully, you live in a larger city with an Apple store. If you do then he can sign up for an free intro voiceover course for iOS.

Another vote for iPhone that supports iOS 11. You want to get the latest updates.

Im working with blind patients and always advice to buy an iPhone. Thats because of the voice-over feature, voice dictation and Siri. Its also easier to learn than other phones. If you dont use your eyes it doesnt really mather witch iPhone you get.

I'm not an expert here. I don't know all the options. But when I was looking for something for my mom, I settled on a Samsung Phone, because it has a tactile button at the bottom.

One press, it activates the home screen. A second press, it activates Google Assistant. Then everything else can be done through voice commands.

Tasker + Autovoice can be allegedly be used to create custom voice commands, though I haven't delved into that yet.

My partner is legally blind and has an asus phone with an OLED screen. Could be a Zen phone I don’t remember the model but the OLED screen makes a huge difference

I have an android because that's what I had even back when I saw well. But I've been planning to swap to iPhone as soon as possible with my plan because the critique of Android vs voice over is really true. I've listened to and played with it on my friends iPhone and it is much easier to learn and use quickly (and works with more apps)

I have an iPhone. I’ve tried Android but iPhone is just far better in my opinion. The Zoom is much easier to use (using the controller), VoiceOver is much better (I don’t need it but I’ve played around with both VoiceOver and TalkBack) and the Magnifier is better than the one on my Samsung S8 that I had (traded it in for my iPhone).