GoKawiilDid you know that your iPhone can replicate your voice, letting you enter text prompts that are spoken aloud in a voice that sounds eerily like you? The feature is called Personal Voice, and in iOS 26 it got a lot better.
Personal Voice lets you save a digital version of your voice for ongoing use
Earlier this week, YouTuber MKBHD reposted an old video he made after iOS 17 launched. It highlighted a ‘Personal Voice’ feature that was new to iPhone at the time.
His video reminded me that Personal Voice got some big upgrades in iOS 26.
Per Apple’s official list of all new iOS 26 features:
Personal Voice creation
For users at risk of losing their ability to speak, Personal Voice uses on-device intelligence to create a smoother, more natural-sounding voice in less than a minute, using only 10 recorded phrases.
Personal Voice is an Accessibility feature you can find inside Settings ⇾ Accessibility ⇾ Personal Voice. It’s intended for users who are at risk of losing their voice, but its sheer uniqueness makes it fun to play around with no matter who you are.
In iOS 17, Personal Voice was a much bigger hassle to set up. As you can see in MKBHD’s video below, it used to be about a 15-minute process requiring you to read 150 text prompts aloud.
This was 2 years ago, still maybe one of the wildest new features added to the iPhone? pic.twitter.com/nqzmJGrl6w — Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) March 17, 2026
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