The best iPhone TV remote for limited mobility or low vision

Standard remotes are small, stiff and crowded with identical buttons — hard work with limited dexterity, tremor or low vision. A phone you already hold, with the accessibility settings you already use, can be a far better remote. Here's how LazyBinger helps.

Hands-free, with your voice

Set a phrase and say it to pause, change volume or turn the TV off — no precise button-pressing, and it works with the iPhone locked. Full guide: voice control.

Large, high-contrast buttons

On-screen controls are far bigger than the buttons on a physical remote, with clear spacing so they're easier to hit. Because the app uses standard iOS controls, system settings like larger text and Zoom carry over.

On your wrist

For the least reach of all, the remote is also on your Apple Watch — a tap on the wrist instead of finding and aiming a remote.

Nothing fiddly to set up

The TV is detected automatically on your Wi-Fi — no tiny pairing buttons, no codes to read across the room for most TVs.

See also: using your iPhone as a TV remote.