Here's another discussion question! Because every time I make a change to any of my Apple devices, I always get overly excited about it and it feels brand new.
In VoiceOver sounds and haptics, how do you all have yours customized?
I have haptics on but turned sounds off. I turned them off on my Mac as well. It just gets annoying after a while, especially if you're on the devices scrolling and swiping a lot like I am. I feel like it's a bit more responsive, to, especially on the watch.
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I used to have sounds turned off.
If you set up a shortcut to mute Voiceover on Mac and have sounds set to off, if you mute Voiceover and then unmute it, sounds are turned on again. I got sick of fighting with it, so I just left them on. For the phone, I had sounds turned off for a while, but I put them back recently because I find they're helpful, e.g. when swiping up from the bottom of the screen to go home or to the app switcher, I find I can do it faster because I have more feedback that the gesture has taken.
I use folders a lot. SO say I go into music and use an app, then I'm done. I want to close music and go to the app switcher to close the app I was just using. I can do the three gestures in a row faster with sounds. Up to get from the app to music, this is like the home gesture, up to close music, again the home gesture, then up to hit the app switcher.
I used to think things were more responsive without sounds. It sort of makes sense if you think the sound is a pause, i.e. the sound plays, then Voiceover speaks. I'm not sure that's what's happening and I've never taken the time to try and figure out a way to time things or whatever to see if it's actually the case that either the phone or Mac are more responsive without sounds. So I kind of figure without some kind of accurate info like that, it doesn't really matter. It's clearly not less responsive in a way that I can definitely say, "OK sounds need to go because they are totally slowing me down". If it was, I'd turn them off, obviously. So I kind of go back and forth on it. Sometimes I'll turn them off for a while, sometimes I'll leave them on.
Sounds
Have it on, helps with text, specially when I have different sounds for each person. Also haptic in my 11 watch helps. Haptic helps in the phone when I put phone facing down or silent mode. Long live cats and Alicia. Do you work for the CIA?
CiA
Unfortunately no, but that would be interesting!
I have sounds off and haptics on
Hi, I have sounds off and haptics on. I also disabled sounds for Mac as well. VO is a lot faster this way.
I left both sounds and haptics on
I leave on the sounds and haptics on both my phones. I did try with the sounds off for a while. It seemed to actually be a little bit slower. I think it was because I was so used to the feedback of the little clicks. Also, I did try turning off haptics and just using sounds, but then I kind of got used to those being there as well like I have the phone on silent mode and stuff I need to dictate things or whatever was helpful to have a haptics on for that so I just decided now I am just leaving both of them on.
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I used to have the VO lock sound disabled, and the little, click click click click, sound you get when you're navigating empty space. Nowadays, I have all of the VO sounds enabled, however, the, click click click, sound I mentioned above, I have disabled haptics for that. 🤷