The Delete option in the VoiceOver Rotor Actions menu does not work with tracks listed in the ‘Up Next’ section of the Mini Player in the native Music app. This should work, as sighted users can simply swipe on a track to delete it from this list.
iOS/iPadOS
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Using the "drag" action in the VoiceOver rotor to rearrange app icons on the Home Screen often does not work as expected.
Specifically, when attempting to drag an app icon to a new position and place it before or after another app, the dragged app frequently ends up in a folder with the target app rather than moving to the desired location. It's also been reported that on occasions some drag action options, such as “place before” or “place after”, may not always be available.
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When attempting to use the VoiceOver Actions menu on Lock Screen notifications, you may find that it takes several attempts before you are able to access the menu.
Specifically, when flicking up or down on a Lock Screen notification, you may find that VoiceOver will speak the notification again instead of one of the VoiceOver Action menu items (such as Clear or More).
When this occurs, you may need to flick up or down 2 or 3 times before successfully accessing the Actions menu.
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On occasions, VoiceOver may not speak the number of notifications on the Lock Screen when waking the screen; in our experience, the easiest workaround is to restart VoiceOver when this behavior occurs.
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In some circumstances, VoiceOver will speak the "swipe up or down to select a custom action, then double tap to activate" announcement when actions are in fact not available.
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In some circumstances, VoiceOver sound effects (such as sounds which indicate movement of the VoiceOver cursor or activation of an element) stop working.
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On the Recents tab of the Phone app,VoiceOver speaks extraneous text.
For example, VoiceOver will say “David user_label_primary” instead of saying “David Mobile”.
It appears that this extraneous text is not visually displayed on the screen, so this behavior is presumably related to VoiceOver labelling of page elements.
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When reading notifications on the lock screen or notification centre, VoiceOver will often speak the term "Collapsed stack" on the notifications.
This implies that there are more notifications hidden behind the currently focused one being read, and this is sometimes the case. If so, selecting will will reveal more notifications.
On some occasions however, it is an individual notification.
Selecting it in this case will open the app.
So the user does not know what to expect, or what action will be taken if they select the notification.
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VoiceOver speech may stop or fade out while reading text inserted into a text field using Dictation. This issue appears to be limited to that particular use case, and swiping or touching the screen will bring back speech as normal.
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VoiceOver speech output spontaneously stops and requires a wait of about 30 seconds to resume. The issue is not specific to certain apps or actions and occurs without any clear pattern. Restarting VoiceOver can help, but it may take a couple of cycling of VoiceOver for this to work. The issue only affects the VoiceOver voice and not other VoiceOver audible feedback. The issue appears to affect many VoiceOver voices, including Alex, Eloquence, Ava, and Siri.
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An intermittent bug can cause VoiceOver speech to stop after ending a phone call, while sound effects remain. There is no clear pattern as to when this issue occurs. Similar behaviour has also been reported when using WhatsApp.
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- Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
- Open Safari.
- Double-tap with 1 finger on the address field.
- Perform a 4 finger single tap on the top half of the screen so as to place VoiceOver focus on to the first UI element (which should be the address field).
- Swipe right repeatedly with 1 finger to move through all elements on the screen.
You should find that websites are grouped under three headings:
Favorites
Frequently Visited
Siri Suggestions
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When configuring the Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models, VoiceOver users may experience inconsistent focus behaviour in locating the button used to select the desired option for an available function.
The Action Button settings screen contains multiple pages, one for each function like Focus mode. Certain function pages have a configuration button to select options for that function. For example, the Focus mode page has a button to pick which Focus mode to use.
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If using the new 'When Speaking' setting for Audio Ducking, VoiceOver speech volume will drastically change in circumstances where you would not expect it to.
Open a particular app or carry out a particular task, and VoiceOver will unexpectedly get louder.
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When using the swipe gesture to move through a active elements, you may occasionally find that VoiceOver suddenly starts to take 3-5 seconds to speak after you move focus to an item.
Once this behaviour presents itself, it typically becomes quite prevalent. Although it may not occur every time that you swipe after the problem first appears, it does become very frequent. For example, it swiping through a list, you may typically find that this problem occurs on every other item.
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When using the App Switcher to switch between apps, you may on occasions find that VoiceOver will not speak the names of apps.
Typically VoiceOver will behave as expected when you move focus through the first 2-3 apps in the App Switcher, but then stop speaking app names.
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VoiceOver will on occasions wrongly indicate that some blocks of text are editable text fields, resulting in VoiceOver speaking feedback such as “text field, editing“, “double tap to edit” or “character mode” before speaking the text.
Typically, this behavior only occurs on the first paragraph when navigating by swiping, but may occur more frequently if navigating by touch.
This is most prevalent in Safari, but has also been encountered in several other apps.
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When searching the App Store, the Clear button will remove any previous search from the text field, but VoiceOver will continue to read what was previously entered in the search field … even after you enter a completely new search. The same happens if you delete characters individually.
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The VoiceOver image description feature, which generates a text description of images focused on with VoiceOver, will periodically stop functioning. When this occurs, VoiceOver will only announce "image" rather than generating a description. Restarting VoiceOver or the device may temporarily resolve the problem, but the issue recurs periodically.
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According to [Apple's release notes for iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4,](https://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-release-ios-134-and-ipados-134-march-24-several-new-features-mixed-news-blind-and-low) these releases Address “an issue in Safari where webpages may not be inverted when both Dark Mode and Smart Invert are active.” However, this has not been our experience.