When customising a Lock screen, VoiceOver does not announce the name of the widget that is currently placed in the top slot. However, VoiceOver does speak the names of widgets placed in the other available slots.
iOS/iPadOS
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Select a video in the Photos app, then select the Edit button.
You should then be able to trim the start or end point of the video by placing VoiceOver focus on the Start or End element, then swiping up or down to change the value.
You should then be able to find the Done button and select it to complete the edit.
However, the Done button is dimmed, and therefore cannot be selected.
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The title says it all.
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There are numerous issues for VoiceOver users when using a hardware keyboard for text composition/editing.
Specifically, using a hardware keyboard to navigate long documents by paragraph or line is typically inconsistent and unreliable, as is attempting to select a paragraph of text.
For example, according to this Apple Support page, the Option-Up/Down Arrow shortcut should move VoiceOver focus (and the cursor) to the beginning or end of the paragraph.
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When typing in most text fields, pressing dot 8 on the keyboard launches a menu instead of creating a new line.
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In the Recents tab of the Phone app, there are rotor actions available on each entry in the list.
If you swipe up or down to Call, and double tap to select, nothing happens.
You can though make a call by simply double tapping on the default Activate option. New users in particular may find this causes confusion.
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When you have set VoiceOver to use a secondary voice using the language rotor, it reverts to the primary voice when focused on items in the status bar.
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When bringing up the Notification Center through touch gestures or using the Perkins-Style keyboard, the connection between the display and iOS device will drop. If you have VoiceOver sounds enabled, you will hear the associated sound when this happens. This bug appears to be impacting all braille devices, but no other devices connected to iOS. This behavior has been tested under the Focus 14/40 Blue, Orbit Reader 40, and Brailliant BIX series.
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Open an audio file in the Files app and press Play.
Place VoiceOver focus on the timeline scrubber control.
Swiping up or down should change your position in the audio track, in other words skip backwards or forwards.
This is not working.
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When listening to audio on a wireless device such as AirPods, you may find that on occasions the volume level of audio playback will drop when your device goes to sleep.
When this occurs, the volume level indicator on your device does not change, just the level of audio playback itself.
Note that this is specifically the volume of the audio that you are playing, not the volume level of VoiceOver.
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When navigating a list of emails in a folder in the Mail app and previews are enabled, VoiceOver will on occasions speak the wrong preview. For example, you may place VoiceOver focus on an email received from Bert. Instead of VoiceOver speaking the body of that email as the preview, it might instead speak the body of an email received from Ernie.
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The App Library contains a series of app collections, which are created automatically based on categories such as Entertainment and Productivity..
These are displayed in blocks of four icons, in mini two by two grids. Each block generally contains three app icons and a folder containing the rest of your apps in that category.
Like a web page, not all of the content is on screen at any one time, depending on how many apps you have installed of course. So you can scroll with three fingers to find more.
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To reproduce this behaviour you will need to have an existing conversation in the Messages app which has at least several dozen messages.
- Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
- Open the native Messages app.
- Place VoiceOver focus on to an existing conversation.
- Double-tap with 1 finger.
You should now be taken to the conversation.
Note where VoiceOver focus is placed in the thread.
It will typically be 8-12 positions above the most recent message in the thread.
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When viewing the list of available Widgets which can be displayed on the Widgets area of the Notification Center, if there are new Widgets listed since you were last on this screen, VoiceOver does not announce the name of the Widget when you flick through the list. Instead, VoiceOver simply announces “New”.
When Opening the App Switcher, Initial VoiceOver Focus May Not Always Be Placed on the Last-Used App
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After opening the App Switcher, the initial position of VoiceOver focus may not always be on the last-used app. To ensure that one closes the desired app, one could swipe left or right to navigate through the list of open apps until they reach the app they wish to close.
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In iOS 18, the ability was added to search for contact names using the T9 typing method in the Keypad of the Phone app.
Thos means typing a number 2 if the name has an A, B, or C in it, 3 for D, E or F, and so on.
Results then appear from your contacts list.
Voiceover however is not speaking these results, instead just saying "Button".
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When using VoiceOver Find with a braille display, searching does not function as expected after typing in text and pressing Enter. This prevents users from being able to effectively find text content using the Space-F shortcut on a braille keyboard.
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When placing a Real-Time Text call, once the braille user enters the area displaying what the other party is typing, the text will not update with the newly typed text. The braille user will only be able to read what has been typed before they enter that text area.
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1. Open something which has multiple text fields, such as the Mail compose new message screen.
2. After writing something and then moving around the screen with QuickNav on, press either a Cursor Routing button on a braille display or the up and down arrows to select the next desired text field.
3. When you do, regardless of Verbocity settings, VoiceOver only plays the sound to indicate that QuickNav has been turned off. There is never speech or braille feedback given in this set of circumstances.
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When using the VoiceOver rotor to arrange widgets on the Today View, you will find that on occasions the ‘Drop Before’ option will wrongly create a widget stack instead of placing the widget in the desired location.