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.
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.
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.
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.
VoiceOver will on occasions wrongly indicate that some blocks of text are editable text fields, resulting in VoiceOver speaking feedback such as âtext field, editingâ, âdouble tap to editâ or âcharacter modeâ 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.
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.
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.
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 âan issue in Safari where webpages may not be inverted when both Dark Mode and Smart Invert are active.â However, this has not been our experience.
When connected over USB only, inputting text in contracted braille is challenging due to the fact that many contractions are not being interpreted correctly. These often have to do with symbols before words. For example, when typing the word "some" in contracted braille, one must use dot 5 followed by the letter s. Instead of interpreting dot 5 followed by s correctly, it is interpreted as "so". This is the contraction for the letter s by itself. Other examples include father, mother, part, there, their, young and so forth.
The Alert Messages function behaves as indicated in the subject. This is prominantly displayed by going from any app to your Home Screen. When you do so, "home" will continue to be displayed in braille even though VoiceOver has focus set to a specific app.
To reproduce this behaviour there will need to be an iOS update available for your device.
You should find that VoiceOver focus âskipsâ the element which states the size of the download.
When attempting to add an existing photo to a message in the Messages app, the grid of available photos cannot be located or navigated by swiping, only by touch.
When typing on a Perkins-Style keyboard, if input is set to contracted braille while output is set to uncontracted typing contractions will not function as expected. Found to be happening in Messages and Mail. The braille tables tested were UEB System, UEB Liblouis and US System
When browsing the list of speakers and TVs available as playback destinations, VoiceOver does not recognise or speak the graphic which indicates the type of device.
Consequently, if you have both a speaker and an Apple TV in the same room, there is no feedback from VoiceOver as to which is which - both will have the same label, e.g. âBedroomâ.
From iOS 18, you can change the Torch and Camera shortcuts on the lock screen to perform other functions.
One available function is to open an app of your choosing.
When you attempt to do this however, you get locked in the dialog box where you choose the app.
When composing an email reply or a lengthy message, the cursor will jump around from time to time which will insert words in some random places.
The title describes it well. This issue has been significantly addressed in iOS 17.3, so it has been downgraded to minor.
The title says it all. Unlike previous iterations, this version of the bug does not appear to have any workarounds.
When customising a Lock Screen, it is possible to add a widget by dragging it from the palette of available widgets and also to arrange widgets on the screen by dragging. In neither case does VoiceOver provide any feedback to indicate that dragging of a widget has started or where it will be placed when released, such as âbefore Weather conditions widgetâ.
Wen customising the Lock Screen, there is a specific situation when VoiceOver will wrongly behave as if the âShow Notificationsâ button is visually present on screen and actionable.
It appears that this only occurs if prior to entering customisation mode the âShow Notificationsâ button is present on the Lock Screen so as to give access to old notifications.