A list of features introduced in iOS 13

If I recall and I do, Sarah stated that voice control is different from voiceover. They had not tested both together and she could not state anything about both working together.

I hope that new voice for siri comes out well so I can replace what I use.

so with voice control can it be used to activate buttons and controls that don't respond to VoiceOver double taps? I can think of a few apps where buttons don't respond with VoiceOver, if it can't then not sure how much use voice control will be to me, of course I will have to try it with the particular app I am thinking of I suppose, but thought I would ask in case anyone has experience of this.
I do like the fact that VoiceOver sounds can now be customised, I can see myself getting rid of the navigation click sound that you get when you move from item to item but leaving most of the others enabled.

Like everyone else said, we are still only on the first public beta, so things may or may not change radically before the official release, but here goes: Unfortunately, from what Sarah Herlinger said in the Applevis extra potcast, the answer to Alex's question seems to be no. They both use the same accessibility infrastructure. In other words, if VoiceOver can't see something or can't reliably activate it, then Voice Control won't be able to either, as that particular UI element is an example of the developer badly implementing the accessibility API support that's already there. But VC may be a bigger incentive for developers to care more about accessibility than VoiceOver, as it seems to be more widely discussed even in mainstream media now than VoiceOver ever was, and there might be more motorically impaired people out there than visually impaired ones. Who knows, though. Certainly not me, I'm not very educated about motor disabilities.
I can't test VC myself as it only supports English for now, and I have my phone set to Czech. For the brief period I had it on, though, I seemed to have this issue where VoiceOver speech seemed to be interpreted by Voice Control. It was inserting weird English words and phrases into my text every time I was trying to type with Braille screen input or even the standard on-screen keyboard. Turning VC off fixed the problem for me.
The good thing about VC seems to be that you can customize its commands quite extensively. It seems not to be possible to completely remove or reword the commands that are already built in, but you can add your own ones, and there are really tons of them already included, with most of them having multiple activation phrases and/or wordings available. You can drill down to each individual command and have its usage explained in great detail.
Lukas

I've wanted a feature to customize the VO sounds for a while. Hearing them all constantly gets annoying but I find some of them useful so I'm definitely looking forward to that!

I'm always looking for faster ways to type.

FlickType is great and all, but the prodiction didn't always get it write for me so I found myself being slowed down.

Braille screen input is so far the best method for me, but the problem with BSI is, what happens if you happen to forget a certain symbol, an underscore or a percent sign, granted it's rare to use those symbols in everyday text.

You can't ask Siri how to write a percent sign in braille, nor can you ask any of the other ai assistants.

And then we come to what they're now calling, type path.

How does type path work with voice over?

I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but it looks like BSI is still the clear winner when it comes to typing, at least for most of us.

do we get the other realspeak that are bundled with JAWS at work for me, but not on the phone? like the malcom UK english, ricci india etc?

I don't usually post in beta threads, and I'm not enrolled in Apple's beta program. But all these things sound really cool. I keep telling my neighbor across the hall that Voice Control just might be a Godsend for him but I don't think he believes me, lol. He has an Android and an iPad, and he has a bit of difficulty typing. I won't say why but he's had difficulty ever since we first met, which was in 2006. I heard the new voice when they put her onstage at this year's WWDC keynote, and she sounded very good. A bit like another voice assistant which I have but won't mention here. I must say though, all this coverage in the media about the fall updates is really making me hungry! Lol but I guess I'll just have to wait like everyone else who isn't enrolled in the beta program. No big deal. I'm sure that it'll all be awesome, given Apple's track record when it comes to accessibility and other things.

All I have to say is that I am really impressed with this beta. Voiceover definitely became a very advanced screen reader. You can customise it just the way you want. Just to give an example when it comes to customising gestures: Since I do a lot of web browsing on my phone, I was able to set 3 finger swipe right and left for next and previous heading, up and down for previous and next link so I no longer have to go through the rotor which can take some time. Additionally, you can set 2 finger swipes for scrolling which made me really happy since it's so much easier. Of course, if you do set for example 2 finger swipes for scrolling you have to set the shortcuts for read from top or read from next item to something else if you want to use them. I personally don't use it all that often. For those who used a physical keyboard, you can pretty much set a gesture for anything you do on a keyboard. Open notification center, control center and so on. This alone really makes it worth updating for me. Sorry if this breaks the rules in any way, however this is not a walkthrough of how to use the new features, just going a bit deeper into it since hearing just that you can remap gestures does not make it sound that great while in reality it's an aawesome thing. Even I know when I myself heard the interview with Apple accessibility I thought we would just be able to remap things already possible, not add totally new commands.

I'm loving this beta of iOS 13. I have to figure out how to create an activity. I love the fact that you can change voiceOver gestures.Oh and someone told me that VC works better with headphones on, especially if you have VO on.

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I'm new to IOS, 10 days to be 2 months old.
I'm loving this site since it has helped me a a lot. due to which I decided to create an account. I hope I can post comments over here.
I wanted to ask that I read on apple's website that ciri voice for Indian english is coming and Iphone will support all 22 Indian languages of India. is it their?
thank you.

Is it possible to select the language siri uses to read messages allowed and respond with on the airpods? I mean separate from setting the siri language itself?

I thing that no. Because that for iPhone there isn’t text to speach in india and this was in hebrew language. in the past, Untill that was text to speach in Hebrew siri can’t speak in hebrew.

Also, if device supports it, most VoiceOver sounds are accompanied by taptics now. They also can be customised in the sound / taptics settings. For example, I disabled most nav clicks and left only the taptics, sound is only for high priority events, e.g popups and alerts.

I hope they continue to do things with the haptick engine. Personally I'd get rid of the vibrating motor, and just use the haptick. I find it is much easier to feel even in a thick case like the otter box defender that i have.

hi have they improved reading in ios 13 in braille? if i currently use kindle and books pages still do not turn and i have press a key is this correct?

really excited for voiceover :D

hi all, in brb, can we view grade 1, or 2, on a per language basis? trying out the betan giving thoughts as know not permitted, but liking the features ,

@Bhavik Vyas
thank you so much for telling me. It's great to know that Apple has not left India behind and have added a new voice for those who live in India. I do hope it comes for voice over as well since I'm currently using the U.S voice for that but would love to have my own country's voice.
also, I'm enjoying this site, it's amazing.
thank you to the author of this blog post.

the female voice not sound indian to me, the male fab!

I'm pretty sure, you can customize voice over. You can turn off things like that annoying sound you hear when you double tap. I've heard haptick feedback is used, which I personally like, so I don't know if I am right about that. I'll just wait and see when it's released.

hi,
so today i installed the beta and there is something with word completion and stuff while typing, but i can't figure it out. Can anyone tell me how it works? And i think the feedback app is broken. It only says dimmed so i can't submit feedback to apple either, i'm signed in.

i think this is showing you words as you type hasn't it always done this? happening braille screen input.

@will, no, not the predictions, it says if you hold your finger on the screen it gives you words but it doesn't speak. Also I think thy broke the moving apps with the rotor feature, i am not able to move apps with it anymore, the options don't show up.

I am testing ios 13 on an old iphone, really impressed so far. there are new gestures, some of them asigned by default to actions like copy and paste, however, I cannot perform them, perhaps because I am doing something wrong. they are gestures like: double tap with three fingers, hold and slide up, (or down, or whatever. I tried performing a double tap with three fingers, holding the fingers on the screen and then sliding all three fingers up, or only a finger, but they do not work. Any luck? Thanks!

Under VoiceOver, speech, language detection for the default speech can be turned off. Manny webpages in Swedish are marked as English. Thus you have to add a language setting for your own language as a rotor selection.

Hi Tunmi13, Thanks for this information. Lots to look forward to in iOS 13. I appreciate you taking time to tell us!

In rotor, you can now add a slide to type option which quickly toggles the slide to type feature with VO, which is by the way perfectly accessible since words are announced as they are suggested.

Beta 6 is out. It came out yesterday. Looks good from I hear in youtube. Is coming soon from all the beta that are coming out. We are now in 6 and next week may be 7. Apple looks like is releasing them once a week. May the apple be with you.

Also what I forgot to mention, in voiceover settings there is now a section for typing, which does include typing mode as well as a new setting for choosing the delay for the alternative characters to appear when holding your key on the keyboard, or for slide to type to activate. So if you had difficulty where it would activate to soon for you, you can now change that.

I really like slide to type in the newest beta, as you start the word voice-over repeatedly reads the predicted word so you know when it’s got the correct word and if it Predicts the word correctly before you finished going to each of the correct letters, you can just let go and it will input the full word. Even with slide to type turned on. I’d like to know if there is a way to change to other predictions once you’ve moved your finger over all of the characters similar to how they swipe down when using FlickType works. you can still use touch typing in the normal way without having to turn slide to type off first so there is no real reason not to have it on unless you find yourself Accidentally going into the slide to type mode.