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.
iOS/iPadOS
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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.
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To reproduce this behaviour there will need to be an iOS update available for your device.
- Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
- Navigate to Settings > General > Software Update
- 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 on this screen.
- Flick right with 1 finger repeatedly to move VoiceOver focus through all page elements.
You should find that VoiceOver focus ‘skips’ the element which states the size of the download.
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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.
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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
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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. “Bedroom”.
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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.
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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.
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The title describes it well. This issue has been significantly addressed in iOS 17.3, so it has been downgraded to minor.
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The title says it all. Unlike previous iterations, this version of the bug does not appear to have any workarounds.
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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 “before Weather conditions widget”.
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Wen customising the Lock Screen, there is a specific situation when VoiceOver will wrongly behave as if the “Show Notifications” button is visually present on screen and actionable.
It appears that this only occurs if prior to entering customisation mode the “Show Notifications” button is present on the Lock Screen so as to give access to old notifications.
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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.
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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 going back a screen (such as a webpage in Safari or a screen in an app), VoiceOver focus is usually placed at the top of the screen, instead of back on the element previously in focus. This occurs both in Safari and in various first- and third-party applications.