I just tried this and it actually seems to be quite accurate, but the issue is still going to be that as a blind person you can't do this precisely. Voiceover will say to :Focus on point in centre of screen", then you tap the "add" button to lock in that point. After that you move your iPhone to point to a different spot and as you move it it shows the distance from the first point. I think a sighted person would be able to get pretty accurate measurements this way, but especially measuring a room would be challenging for a blind person although when I tried it in our bedroom I got a reasonable good result as follows:
First, here an explanation: I know our bedroom is about 10.5 feet wide and it goes across the width of the house which is 25 feet, but on one end about 4 feet are separated off as a walk-in clauset. So in real measurements it would be about 20 feet long and 10.5 feet wide. Our queen size bed is roughly in the middle on the long wall and that leaves about 4 or so feet between the end of the bed and the wall. What I did is stand against the footboard of the bed facing away from the bed with the wall about 3 or so feet away and I added my reference point. I then turned around 180 degrees to stand facing the bed and wall on the other side of the bed. At that point even though I held my iPhone quite still, the read out varied between 2.84 metres and 3.08 metres which means a variation of about 25 cm or 10 inches which is quite significant, but even by going with about the middle measurement which would be around 2.95 metres, this is not so bad as that is 9 feet 8 inches. If I went with the 3.08 metres it would be basically 10 feet so knowing the room is 10.5 feet that is somewhat close. If you of course needed that measurement to order baseboard trim or some other construction material then it would not be good enough, but it's not bad. A sighted person could probably focus exactly on the corner of a room where the walls meet and then do the same for the opposite corner and maybe this way get a much more accurate measurement, I'll ask my main employee to try this when I'm at my store later, he is also quite handy and we have done quite a few building and renovation projects over the years. We'll measure my office with a tape first and then he can use my phone to see how close it is. Best regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 6:02 PM To: Viphone <[email protected]> Subject: Re: iOS measuring room Hello, I’m not sure how accurate it is, but I can use my iPhone SE 2020 to measure things. Once the phone is focused on an item the “add point” near the bottom of the screen is activated. You then move until your phone is focused on another point and click add point again. At this point VoiceOver will say the difference between the two points. It might also tell you that you are moving too fast, or that there is not enough light. I attempted measuring a rug in my hallway that is about 6 of my feet long and the phone claimed it was 36 inches. Not sure if this was me not using the technology well, or just the issues of the phone measuring system. My wife had better luck when we were shopping for homes and forgot a measuring device. 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