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.
iOS/iPadOS
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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.
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When Replying to a Message in the Mail App and Typing on a Perkins-Style Keyboard, Letters Immediately Following the Spacebar are Sometimes Dropped. If you are a fast typer using braille displays, this bug sometimes also happens in other apps; but it always happens when replying to an email.
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When running a Shortcut that prompts the user to select from a menu, VoiceOver users are unable to dismiss the menu with a gesture.
When not using VoiceOver, you can simply tap on the screen somewhere away from the menu to dismiss it.
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When selecting shortcuts in a folder in the Shortcuts app, VoiceOver does not speak the selection status of shortcuts.
Specifically, when you have activated Edit mode and chosen “Select Shortcuts” from the context menu, VoiceOver will not announce when a shortcut has already been selected when you place focus on to it.
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After selecting the split screen option in the multi-tasking menu, you are returned to your Home Screen to select the app you want to share the screen with. Some apps are not supported, and if selected will simply open in full screen, but VoiceOver gives no indication of which apps are and are not supported.
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When VoiceOver focus is placed on a notification on either the Lock screen or Notification Center, VoiceOver will typically speak most of the notification twice.
For instance, this is how a notification might appear visually:
SKY NEWS, 5 minutes ago
Sky News, Man bites dog, 2:42 pm
However, in the above example, what VoiceOver actually speaks is:
SKY NEWS, 5 minutes ago
Sky News, Man bites dog, 2:42 pm
Sky News, Man bites dog
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When starting a new conversation in the Messages app with VoiceOVer enabled and using Braille Screen Input, VoiceOver does not speak words deleted if you are using the two-finger flick left to delete by word. This behavior only occurs when starting a new conversation (it *does not* occur when typing a message in an existing thread) and it only occurs when using the two-finger swipe left to delete by word. Using the one-finger swipe left to delete by character speaks as expected.
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The description is provided in the title. This is happening on at least the Focus Fifth generation displays, Orbit Reader 40 and Braille BIX series.
This AppleVis forum topic contains information on people's experiences of this bug: Major panning problem on my Braille display after iOS 16.5