When the Safari toolbar is collapsed to the bottom of the screen, VoiceOver finds UI elements which are not visually present and consequently do not behave as expected.
In iOS 10.2, there is a significant delay between when something is typed using a braille display, and when VoiceOver puts that text on the screen. The grade of braille input does not change this delay, and it has been duplicated using both the UEB and US English translation tables. This also appears to impact all braille display models. A Focus, Braille Edge, Refreshabraille and Smart Beetle were all tested.
When typing quickly on a Perkins-style keyboard, typed letters are sometimes missed in certain text fields such as in Mail. This happens with UEB Contracted System and US Braille Contracted System tables. Duplicated on an Orbit Reader 20+, Orbit Writer, Humanware NLS eReader with firmware version 3.0, and the Chameleon 20 running firmware version 2.5
The above behavior has been present since iOS 11, and has been duplicated by several users with different configurations of iOS. It has manifested itself from text not being translated when the flash message comes up through iOS 12.1, to its current state as described.
When using a braille display, after modifying the layout of the Home screen (such as adding or deleting an app), pressing space with dots 4-5-6 no longer functions.
Since this behavior does not happen each time a VoiceOver Announcement/flash message appears, it's a tough bug to solve. I've had notifications from the same app freeze the braille display and phone in one instance and not the other. It also seems to happen to some people far more than others.
As well as pressing and holding Command, or Pressing Globe + M to bring up the keyboard commands window, pressing Globe + Control + option does so too. Pressing these keys combined with the left and right arrow keys should take VoiceOver to the first or last item, and so the two commands are in conflict.
On occasion, when navigating the device while wearing AirPods, the volume of VoiceOver speech will fluctuate, taking a sudden dip for several seconds, then coming back to where it was.
When using drag and drop to rearrange the position of a shortcut in the Shortcuts app, VoiceOver does not provide meaningful feedback whilst dragging regarding where the shortcut will be placed when dropped.
Specifically, when in a folder of shortcuts and dragging a shortcut to a different position, as the shortcut is dragged VoiceOver announces feedback of its current position in the form of “Before Null” and “After Null”, where “Null’ should be the name of a shortcut.
When Live Captions are active, and someone is speaking, the first part of the text will come through and be readable. However, when further text arrives, the braille user is returned to the start of the line and must pan through content to get back to where they were. Tis is only being marked as "moderate" as Live Captions is still in beta.
If you have an alarm set to go off on the Apple Watch, a few seconds before it starts, the iPhone will wake up and speak.
The iPhone should not wake up or make any sound, as the alarm is set to use the watch.
When using the emoji search facility to find and insert an emoji in to a text field, when you double-tap on the desired emoji it will be inserted but rather than announcing the title of the emoji, VoiceOver will speak the last character that you typed in to the search field.
On iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, you can use the Measure app to instantly measure a person’s height from the floor to the top of their head, hair, or hat. (You can even measure the seated height of a person in a chair.)
The resulting measurement is displayed visually on screen but not accessible with VoiceOver.
This behaviour appears to be consistent across any native or third-party apps which have a bottom menu (tab) bar. For example, the App Store, iTunes Store, and the Music app.
Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
Open any app which has a bottom menu bar. For now, make it the App Store.
Navigate to the Search tab.
Place VoiceOver focus in to the search field and double-tap with 1 finger.
If you attempt to use the VoiceOver rotor to drag a widget to the last available position on the Today View, you may find that focus will move to the Home screen and it is then not possible to navigate back to the Today View whilst still in Edit Mode.