Voice Control is Apple’s version of Voice Access (or Voice Access is Windows’ version of Voice Control)… either way, Voice Control is a feature specific to Apple products that allows you to interact with, and control your device, using your voice.

Turning Voice Control On

If you’ve never used Voice Control on your Mac before, you will need to turn this feature on. Voice Control can be found through your system settings, and is located in the Accessibility section. If you have Siri set up on your device, you can also say “turn on voice control”.
Turn Voice Control on or off on Mac – Apple Support (CA)

What Can Voice Control do?

• Open applications
• Scroll through documents or web pages
• Select buttons (such as to close a window)

What if you don’t know the name of an item?

For example, you want to select an item on screen, but you don’t know the name of that item? Don’t worry! There are two built-in ways to help:

• Label onscreen items, either with names or numbers – use the voice control command “show names” to get onscreen items labelled by name, or “show numbers” to have them labelled with different numbers
• Show a numbered grid – use the voice control command “show grid” and a numbered grid will be displayed on your screen. You can then interact with a location on the grid by saying “click on #”, or say just a grid number to have a smaller grid added just in that location.

For more information, please visit Apple’s Support Article on Using Voice Control on Mac.

Voice Control on iPad and iPhone

As long as your iPad or iPhone has iOS 13 or later, you can use Voice Control on your device!

For more information, please visit Apple’s Support Article on Using Voice Control on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.