VoiceOver Speech Sometimes Stops in the Middle of Reading Text

Category
VoiceOver Speech/Voices
Severity
Serious

Description

Sometimes, when reading text (such as a post in a social media app or an article in a news app), VoiceOver stops speaking in the middle of the text and does not resume on its own.

This issue does not occur all of the time. When it does occur, speech will stop mid-sentence (and sometimes even mid-word).

When this issue occurs, touching the screen or performing a touch gesture (like a one-finger swipe left or right) restores speech. This issue does not result in a permanent loss of VoiceOver speech.

Steps to reproduce

There are no specific steps to reproduce this issue. Our experience suggests that this issue may be more likely to occur with longer blocks of text, such as a social media post or news article.

Bug First Encountered

iOS/iPadOS 27.0

Device(s) bug has been encountered on

iPhone

How often the bug occurs

Sometimes

Workaround

Navigate back to the block of text and have VoiceOver read it again. We have not observed this issue occurring twice in a row with the same text.

Apple feedback #

FB24365037

Status

Active

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