What You Need to Know About Traveling With Apple Vision Pro (2024)

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What You Need to Know About Traveling With Apple Vision Pro? ›

Stay seated while using Travel Mode, and take off your Apple Vision Pro before you stand up. Take off your Apple Vision Pro during taxiing, takeoff, and landing, and if the flight has turbulence. Avoid looking out the airplane's windows, since this can affect your device's ability to track your surroundings.

If you're a passenger on an airplane, turn on Travel Mode to stabilize your content, so you can continue using your Apple Vision Pro.

When you turn on Apple Vision Pro for the first time, you're guided through the simple setup process—all you need is a Wi-Fi connection. If you have an iPhone with iOS 17 or later, or an iPad with iPadOS 17 or later, you can also transfer your data to your new Apple Vision Pro using Quick Start.

Apple Vision Pro shouldn't be used near roadways or areas where moving objects present a collision risk. Never use the device while operating a moving vehicle, bicycle, heavy machinery, or in any other situations requiring attention to safety.

For example, don't run while wearing Apple Vision Pro, use it while operating a moving vehicle, or use it while intoxicated or otherwise impaired.

You can't necessarily use your Vision Pro on a moving plane the same way you would at home. Travel Mode for Apple Vision Pro is a setting that adapts and optimizes the headset specifically for use during flights.

Turn on Airplane Mode

Some airlines let you fly with your Apple Watch (and iPhone) turned on if you put them in Airplane Mode. By default, turning on Airplane Mode turns off Wi-Fi and cellular (on Apple Watch models with cellular) and keeps Bluetooth turned on.

Drivers using Apple Vision Pro headsets raise safety concerns Videos of Apple's new mixed-reality headset being used behind the wheel have led to concerns about distracted driving. Experts say they pose dangers since they don't perfectly reproduce human vision.

You can't wear Apple Vision Pro while wearing eyeglasses. If you need vision correction, you can purchase ZEISS Optical Inserts. Third-party lens solutions for Apple Vision Pro aren't supported, and might impact your experience.

The Vision Pro includes lots of pricey state-of-the-art parts. One estimate from research firm Omdia puts the “bill of materials” for the headset at $1,542, and that doesn't include the costs of research and development, packaging, marketing or Apple's profit margin.

What are the side effects of Apple Vision Pro? ›

Stop using it immediately if you feel unwell or experience discomfort, such as nausea, dizziness, headache, numbness, eyestrain, eye pain, or a change in vision such as blurred or double vision.

During a FaceTime call on Apple Vision Pro, you can move the FaceTime window and make it larger or smaller as you would with other app windows in visionOS. You can also work in other apps, adjust audio and video settings, share your view, and more.

With visionOS on Apple Vision Pro, you can use built-in apps like Apple TV , Safari , and Photos , transform your space with Environments, connect with others in FaceTime calls, and download great third-party apps from the App Store .

While the Vision Pro combines aspects of both augmented reality and virtual reality, its unique operating system, which allows users to interact with and control apps with their fingers and eyes, is what makes it a spatial computer as opposed to simply being a mixed reality headset, Rosenberg says.

Go to Settings Focus, then tap Driving. Automatically: Driving will be activated based on detected motion. When Connected to Car Bluetooth: Driving will be activated when your iPhone is connected to a car's Bluetooth systems.

To search and add stops along your route, use Google Maps on Apple CarPlay. You can find details about your stops, like gas prices and detour times.

Whether or not you can make use of international roaming with a cellular-supporting Apple Watch depends on your carrier, your model of Apple Watch, and the country or region you're traveling to. No version of the Apple Watch will support cellular in every area of the world.

After arrival: Open Settings. Tap Cellular or Cellular Data. Then: If your device has a single SIM card or eSIM, turn on Cellular Data, then tap Cellular Data Options, and turn on Data Roaming and other settings suggested by your carrier.

Open Control Center, then turn on airplane mode. to turn on Bluetooth. If you turn on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth while in airplane mode, it may be on the next time you return to airplane mode. You can turn it off again in Control Center.