iOS 18 added the ability to place app icons in any grid position on the home screen, rather than a fixed order starting from the top left.
While you can drag icons into any position with VoiceOver using the method of dragging your finger around the screen, the method using the Drag and Drop actions in the rotor does not allow you to choose any grid position.
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When editing the list of your favorites in the native Phone app, it is not possible to rearrange their order. Previously you could do this by using the ‘hold, drag and drop’ method after being alerted by VoiceOver that this was available. This is no longer the case, although it remains possible to rearrange favorites if you are not using VoiceOver.
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When using 3D Touch in the native Music App to open a ‘peek’ menu, it is possible in some situations that swiping left will move VoiceOver focus to the Status Bar rather than ending with the first item in the ‘peek’ menu.
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On the Emergency SOS settings screen (Settings > Emergency SOS), there is an unlabeled element immediately after the "Emergency SOS" heading. This is a graphic showing the location of the Power button, but it is not spoken at all by VoiceOver.
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Photos got a major redesign in iOS 18.
The buttons, which are also headings, at the top of each section of hte app's main screen have odd labels, including the word "Forward".
If you move into these sections, you will often encounter buttons which are unlabelled.
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When in a Group Message, at the top right hand corner is the "Details" button. Flick once to the right and you will land on an Unlabeled button. This button seems to do the same thing as the "Details" button.
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When using the Alex voice, there are longer pauses following punctuation than there were in iOS 12 or earlier.
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When swiping through a list of articles from one of your favourites in the native News app, VoiceOver will in some instances provide feedback which suggests that you are actually on the Main screen of the Favourites tab. When VoiceOver does announce these elements, they will not behave as expected when double-tapped.
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If you enable both VoiceOver and Full Keyboard Access, you may find that VoiceOver focus will be inconsistent and unreliable in some situations. Typically this may result in you not being able to move VoiceOver focus by flicking or focus spontaneously jumping between UI elements.
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When using the VoiceOver Actions Menu to delete a conversation from the Messages app, it is not completely removed from the list of message threads. In it's place will be left a "broken" item in the list which VoiceOver announces as "null." Whilst in this state, the message list will not update to display or give access to any new message threads; to resolve this, you will need to close the Messages app via the App Switcher.
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- Ensure that you have several days of browsing history in Safari (ideally several weeks).
- Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
- Open Safari.
- Double tap with 1 finger on the “Bookmarks” button.
- Double tap with 1 finger on the “History” button.
You will now be on a page that lists your browsing history. The list is sorted by date, with each day having a Header at the beginning which contains the day of the week and the date.
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Using the ‘Drag’ option from the VoiceOver Rotor to rearrange widgets can be inconsistent and unreliable, as there are times when VoiceOver does not give accurate feedback on where the dragged widget will be place or offer the option to place the widget.
This behaviour appears to be most prevalent on the Today View and when there are too many active widgets to be present at the same time on this screen (so, when not editing, you would need to scroll the view to access all of the widgets).
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The app library screen is divided into sections such as Productivity, Utilities etc. You can no longer quickly move between these sections using the VoiceOver containers navigation.
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In Safari, using the Back button or Scrub gesture to return to the previous page will result in VoiceOver becoming near unusable. VoiceOver will read an item if you locate it by touch, but flicking will not move focus.
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- Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
- Navigate to the Home screen.
- Reveal the Today View.
- Have1 or more widgets set as favourites.
- Place VoiceOver focus on to the first widget.
- Swipe right repeatedly with 1 finger to move focus through all UI elements on the Today View.
You should find that some UI elements have the extraneous text “today” prepended to their VoiceOver label - for example, when VoiceOver focus lands on the Edit button it will say “Today Edit button”.
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This issue can occur on widgets both on the Today screen and on home screens.
VoiceOver's actions menu should be present to allow the user to enter edit mode, and when it is a stacked widget, to cycle to the next or previous widget in the stack.
On some occasions, after placing VoiceOver focus on a widget, this menu is failing to appear.
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In the list of languages of the iOS 14 Translate application, Voiceover announces new line before the language variant if a language offers multiple variant.
For example, Spanish Spain will be spoken as "Spanish. New line. Spain."
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When you adjusts the volume slider in Control Center using the flick gesture, VoiceOver announces the previous volume level rather than the new level after the adjustment. Specifically, when a user focuses on the volume slider in Control Center with VoiceOver enabled, then performs a 1 finger flick up or down to change the volume, VoiceOver speaks the volume percentage. However, instead of announcing the new volume level, VoiceOver reads out the volume level prior to the flick gesture adjustment.
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The short explanation of this problem is that the screen becomes unresponsive to VoiceOver when you attempt to add a new favourite in the Phone app and go to your list of contact groups as part of that process.
So, to check for this you will need to have 1 or more groups setup within your contacts.
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1. Open the Phone app and go to the Favourites tab.
2. Double-tap on the ‘Add’ button.
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If using the Voiceover practice feature available in Voiceover settings, the braille tab does not give the correct information about the gestures available in the braille screen input mode.