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Extreme warning regarding latest iOS 16.2 beta

By Lee, 29 November, 2022

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Hi All, re 16.2 public beta today Had a security update advised for all users. Suggest people on the public beta do not install it. Once installed VoiceOver has completely died. You can hear clicks as if the speech is turned off but they are very quiet. However, there is no speech. Turning off and on Vo fails. Turning on the speech again fails and restarting the phone with a hard reset fails. There is no way of getting vo back. Have had to restore phone to a backup and unfortunately, that doesn't work either. Going to restore phone again and try an even earlier backup. If that fails I'm screwed and will have to start installing everything from scratch. So be careful if you think it worth installing the security update from my point it is a disaster and I hope I'm the only one. Iphone 13 pro.

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Just to add

By Lee

2 months 1 week ago

Oh should have said I can't report this to Apple as there is no speech so can't use the feedback app and I needed sighted help to restore the phone. Shambles!

damn!

By Igna Triay

2 months 1 week ago

I really hope this gets fixed by the time this gets into the public updates... if not we'll be screwed.

No issue here

By Cobbler

2 months 1 week ago

No problem here after installing the Rapid Security Response.

According to this article it is possible to uninstall a Rapid Security Response: How To Remove Rapid Security Response Updates in iOS 16

  1. Go to Settings -> General -> About.
  2. Tap iOS Version.
  3. Tap Remove Security Response.

Cobbler

By Holger Fiallo

2 months 1 week ago

Nice but if you do not have VO? what! Glad that I stop using beta.

No problem here

By Dave Nason

2 months 1 week ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

I updated with no problem at all, and I know at least three others who did likewise.
That’s not to say it’s not an issue for some, but it doesn’t appear to be a widespread issue.
Lee may just have gotten very unlucky, but it’s hard to know.
Dave

No issue here either. And …

By Malthe

2 months 1 week ago

No issue here either. And @Holger that's what betas do. Things break.

Sorted I think

By Lee

2 months 1 week ago

Hi guys, Glad to hear most are not having this issue. Reverting to a 3 week old backup seems to have got everything back up. Hopefully this was one of those odd vo issues which crop up once and then you can't repeat them.

absolutely no issue

By Dennis Long

2 months 1 week ago

No issue here. I wonder if it didn't install properly or something strange happened.

My mini is working good

By Joe

2 months 1 week ago

Never saw this issue on my iPad mini 6 either so like others hoping this was just something strange.

iOS 16.2 beta and Audible

By Doll

2 months 1 week ago

Hello Lee and all.

Oh my goodness Lee, so pleased you managed to restore an old back up and get things working after all. I’m one of those who hasn’t as yet taken the plunge with iOS 16, so is 16.2 out yet or is it still in beta.

Whilst writing, can I highlight another issue entirely please and ask for thoughts and comments:
Does anyone else find that the Audible library is no longer browsable with VoiceOver? By which I mean that every time I try swiping through my list of books, it appears to jump back up to the top after I have read about six titles, does anyone else have this issue, can’t remember when it started, but I just am not able to browse through my titles these days, which is very annoying. Thoughts please if anyone else has had issues.

Happy first of December everyone, I know it’s not quite Christmas yet, but those with children and young families will be feeling the excitement by now i’m sure.

Cheers for now

Erica

Regarding audible

By Malthe

2 months 1 week ago

Hi
This is an audible issue, not a VoiceOver one it seems. I think it staarted on iOS 15 for me. You can use the scroll with 3 fingers gesture as a workaround, then browse by sliding your finger.

Best
Malthe

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