VoiceOver no longer announces the time when the device wakes if there are pending notifications. Instead, it only states the number of notifications present.
This differs from previous iOS versions where VoiceOver would always announce the time upon wake, even with notifications. Omitting the time announcement is inconsistent with user expectations and removes useful context.
Upon first restarting an iOS device with Touch ID enabled, the user is required to enter the deviceās passcode before Touch ID can be used. In iOS 7, if a user attempted to unlock the device using Touch ID immediately after a restart, VoiceOver would automatically announce that a passcode was necessary to unlock the device. In iOS 8, however, VoiceOver no longer automatically announces this informationāpotentially leaving the user confused as to why Touch ID does not work.
When on the Mini Player in the native Music app, VoiceOver will speak screen elements which are not actually present on the screen or actionable at the time.
Exactly what these āphantomā elements will be, will depend upon which tab of the Music app you were viewing before loading the Mini Player.
These elements will be located in two locations on the screen:
After performing a search in the App Store, VoiceOver will behave as if the list of Trending Searches is present at the end of the list of search results. This is not the case; this list is not visually present on screen, and apps reported by VoiceOver as being in this list cannot be accessed. Note that the list of Trending Searches is present and works as expected before you perform a search.
When you open the app switcher from the home screen and begin swiping left or right, VoiceOver focus will temporarily jump around erratically.
If you have multiple locations added to the native Weather app, VoiceOver focus may wrongly switch away from the currently selected one when swiping through the last elements on the weather details screen.
On some web pages in Safari; web views in apps; and some pages in apps, you may find that VoiceOver focus will spontaneously ājumpā to a different UI element.
This behaviour does not appear to be widespread, but can make navigation difficult and confusing when it does occur.
One example of this behaviour in Safari can be seen with Google search results when using the VoiceOver rotor to navigate by heading.
I would expect VoiceOver focus to move to the data which is presented here graphically.
In the Featured Tab of the App Store, VoiceOver focus will loop continually through a carousel of highlighted items displayed near the top of the page if you simply try to swipe through the page.
When using the Find My app with VoiceOver, the focus is erratic when trying to use to locate people or devices. Focus will erratically jump around making using the app very difficult if not unusable.
It is likely that this behavior is the result of the app updating the location data for listed people and devices. Accordingly, the more people and devices you have listed in the app, the more erratic will be the behaviour of VoiceOver focus.
Scenario: In the inbox of the Mail app with a large number of unread emails.
Swipe right to navigate through this list of emails one by one.
As you do so, use the VoiceOver rotor to delete, mark as read, or move these emails.
After completing that action, expected behaviour is for VoiceOver focus to land on the next email in the list.
However, when this issue occurs, VoiceOver focus instead jumps to a position further towards the top of the list.
On occasion, you may find that VoiceOver focus will jump to the first UI element on the screen soon after you go to that screen, but after you have placed VoiceOver focus on another UI element.
You will find on occasions that VoiceOver focus will spontaneously jump to another UI element.
When opening a message in the Mail app, VoiceOver focus is no longer automatically placed in the body of the message. To find the body of the message, the user must either swipe or explore by touch. It is our understanding that this change is not by design, and that we should expect to see this revert back to the previous behavior in a future iOS release.
In the details screen of group message conversations, the screen does not auto-scroll with VoiceOver focus as one swipes through the page. In particular, this issue presents itself when trying to enable the "Do Not Disturb" feature; as the "Do Not Disturb" button is not displayed onscreen even though VoiceOver indicates its availability, it becomes necessary to perform a three-finger flick upward to bring the button into focus on the screen before activating it.
When first opening the App Switcher you can move through all of the listed contacts by flicking left/right. However, after double-tapping on a contact to reveal the available contact options, flicking will no longer move VoiceOver focus through all of the contacts.
In the Mail app, when you have a draft minimized, VoiceOver's focus is affected. Elements are out of order as you flick left or right, you suddenly get stuck and cannot move past an element, or you get into loops where VoiceOver keeps moving between a few elements as you flick left or right, and never moves beyond those few.
When using an app, you may on occasions find that VoiceOver focus will spontaneously ājumpā to the first element on the screen.
This behavior has been reported as most common in Safari and the native News app, but has been encountered in many other apps.
As far as we can determine, there appears to be no pattern to this behavior or a reliable means of reproducing it.
It also appears that users encounter this behavior at varying levels. For some, it is very occasional, for others it makes using some apps an extremely frustrating experience.
When swiping through elements in the main area of the screen, you will find that VoiceOver focus will occasionally jump to the Status Bar.
When using VoiceOver and navigating to the Browse tab in the native Files app, a location listed may incorrectly be announced as a "switch button." For example, focusing on the "iCloud Drive" location results in VoiceOver reading "iCloud Drive, switch button, double tap to toggle setting." This occurs for most locations listed on the Browse tab.
When performing a double tap on a location, it will behave as a normal ābuttonā, in that it opens that location for browsing.