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Listen to web articles on your iPhone instead of reading them

Use Safari's Listen to Page for one article, or save articles to a reader app to hear your whole reading list offline, without ads and citation numbers.

Aloudeo Listening DeskUpdated November 3, 20262 min read
Short answer

For one article, tap the page menu in Safari's address bar and choose Listen to Page. To hear a whole reading list offline, share each article to a reader app like Aloudeo: you hear the story without ads, links and citation brackets, and the next article plays when one ends.

Listen to one article in Safari

  1. Open the article in Safari.
  2. Tap the page menu button at the left of the address bar.
  3. Choose Listen to Page.

Safari reads with your iPhone's voice and shows controls on the Lock Screen. It works page by page while the article stays open.

Hear your whole reading list

Share articles to a reader app as you find them, then listen in one go:

  1. In Safari, tap Share and pick Aloudeo.
  2. The article lands in Articles, without menus, ads or cookie banners.
  3. Open the folder and tap Play all: each article plays after the last.

Get a cleaner voice

Wikipedia pages and news sites carry citation numbers, pronunciation guides and links. In Aloudeo they stay off the voice:

The common octopus (/ˈɒktəpʊs/ OK-tə-pəs) has three hearts[12] and blue blood,[13] as Fig. 3 shows.

becomes

The common octopus has three hearts and blue blood, as Figure 3 shows.

Questions you ask about this

Does Safari's Listen to Page work offline?
It needs the page open in Safari. A reader app saves the article, so it plays offline later.
Can I queue several articles?
In Aloudeo, yes: put them in a folder and press Play all.
What happens to images and captions?
The voice reads the story. Galleries, captions with no sentence and video players stay out.

Listen to your own PDFs and books.

Open a PDF, an ebook or a web page on your iPhone, press play, and listen offline. Join the list for launch day.

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