Hi all, Since upgrading to IOS8 I have noticed a few bugs with Voice over.
iOS and iPadOS
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I noticed this morning when playing an audiobook that I synced to my iPod Touch 5th generation that a couple of unlabled buttons had appeared near the previous track and next track buttons. Also, no matter what speed I toggle the playback speed button to, VoiceOver says that the speed is set to normal even if it's not. The unlabeled buttons appear to go backward and forward a fiew seconds within the book, but I'm not sure what to label them. Also, has anyone else noticed the problem with the playback speed button?
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I recently bought an ipad Air 4 (ios 14.4). Previously I used an ipad Air 3. The Air 4 has considerably more power so I was not expecting to run into serious new Voice Over problems. Problems are mostly with but not limited to safari. When loading pages from a site with a mixture of text, pictures and videos, VO will start to read the text ok but after a few lines will stop and Safari will completely lock up. After waiting about 20 seconds it will unlock but VO will be chopped up and unusable. I then give up and accept this web site is not accessible.
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I am registered blind and my life was made much easier when I purchased my iPad. I could shop, email keep in touch with friends and family,listen to books on my kindel app.
Now my iPad is useless voiceover keeps switching on and off and is causing all sorts of problems for me. When will this problem be fixed???
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Helping my mom configure her iPhone and I wanted to see if anyone here has suggestions.
She has extremely low vision + hand tremors and issues with fine motor skills.
Using the phone exclusively through Siri works well for her. Using individual apps through the "swipe + tap" navigation of VoiceOver is too complex, but she needs a few of the "bonus" features of VoiceOver (announcing notifications, extra verbose Siri reponses, double tap to answer / hang up, auto route between speakerphone / ear).
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When I turn this feature on with my iPhone, I lose voiceover speech. It’s really that simple and it shouldn’t be that complicated. I was trying to stream a Twitch thing on my phone to my new television. It has the feature. You can airplay into it. I used the feature from the control center if that helps. I’ve never done this before. It’s probably an obvious mistake. Thank you for any help.
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Hi all, Is there a way to correct voiceover's pronunciation of words? My example is: I have the AppleInsider app. And when I get a notification from them, VO pronounces it applenesider. Not a big deal at all but just curious if VO can be changed like Jaws to correctly pronounce a word.
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Good morning to all:
I have an issue when trying to change the way words are pronounced in iOS. I have no problem getting the entries done, usually changing the way someone's name is spoken. However, when that person's name becomes a possessive, i.e. an apostrophe s is added, it reverts back to the incorrect way of pronouncing. There is no option I have found to correct words with apostrophes. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
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I have iPhone 4S on iOS 7.0.4 . If I open my contacts I can't scroll down the screen with VoiceOver on? Is there a way to do this?
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Hi All,
I had to get a replacement iPhone 4S yesterday because the volume button broke on the previous one.
With this new one, I've noticed That when on a call, and I get an email of some sort, voice over does not say notification from email as before. Voiceover speech is turned on, when this happens. Any thoughts as to why this now occurs?
Also, is your volume both on the phone and speaker phone supposed to turn down all the way while talking, or just down to a certain amount?
Thanks for any and all feedback.
Shane.
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After updating to IOS 16.3, I note the following behaviour; VoiceOver is quite slow to respond after a finger swipe (several seconds, up to 3). Anyone else experiencing this annoying behaviour? Needless to say that prior to the update, swiping would produce an immediate response from VoiceOver. Any help to remedy the situation will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello all,
Has anyone else encountered Voiceover freezing up while using Safari, twitter and others on iOS8 iPad Air? I mean it no longer speaks and nothing else will either. I have hoped it was a lag issue, but no.
The only fix I have found is a hard reboot and I am now doing this around six times a day. I have ensured the new Speak Screen setting is off also. Any other ideas and fixes appreciated.
Cheers
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How can I stop VoiceOver from randomly speaking while on a phone call.
It will for example announce incoming messages. Or say the person’s name whom I’m talking to.
I’m on IOS 14.5 with an Iphone 12.
Thanks in advance.
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I have an iPhone SE 2020.
Since upgrading to 17.2.1, I've noticed that VoiceOver speaks random words while the phone is locked. This is not a notification; there are no new notifications.
The first few times, it happened while my phone was in my hoodie pocket, so I had to wonder whether I was hearing it or hallucinating. But it has happened twice in the past couple of days, once while the phone was on my desk, and again while I was listening to an audiobook with wired earbuds.
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Voiceover now reading ALL punctuation no matter which of the 3 settings is selected in settings>voiceover>verbosity>punctuation>active punctuation group>none. This started yesterday during use and I have spent the past 2 days trying to figure out why this is so. I think I was using the shortcuts app at the time, but nothig to do with settings. I have an iphone 8 running the latest software. Does anyone have any ideas? Many thanks
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I am running the latest iPhone operating system. When I go to certain websites to place orders for tickets, for events, voiceover is reading, mysterious countdown timer on the websites, making the webs websites, hardly usable and accessible, and I cannot navigate the website. How do I turn off the constant reading of these times? how do I turn off the constant reading of these timers?
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Hi everyone, I am a relatively new user to IPhone and IOS, so please forgive me if this question has been answered before. Whenever I get a notification like a new mail message, text message, missed phone call etc, and my screen is locked, teh sound for that particular item plays and then voiceover says "one notification" and then the time of day and then a few seconds later, it says "screen locked." Even when my phone is set to mute, it does this.
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Hi. i'm new to the site and love it. Been using iOS's accessibility since the beginning, and I got used to iOS 4. But now I've found something weird, and I hope the community can explain what's going on.
I bought an eBook (in PDF format) about a month ago and used iBooks to read it as I could utilize the full feature set of Voice Over unlike in Good Reader. I was able to drag one finger anywhere on the document and choose what to read, then drag two fingers down to read from there. In the new release of iOS 5, the only thing I can do is start from the beginning of every page.
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hi, I noticed voiceover does very good reading subtitles in its tv and movies apps. But what other apps does this voiceover subtitle reading feature what other apps does it work with? I am interested in watching anime with subtitles if possible, having voiceover read the subtitles for me on both IOS, and apple tv 4th gen. Also does apple tv 4k have voiceover features that my normal standard apple tv 4th gen does not?
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Hello everyone, I recently upgraded to iOS 8.3 and, generally, I love it. However, I am having one problem that is a little more than a minor annoyance. Lately, voiceOver has been reading text in third party apps out of the order that it has followed within said apps in the past. At first, I thought this was an app specific issue, but I have now experienced this in three different apps, and I believe it correlates with the upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3. I have not seen any mention of this bug elsewhere, but I thought I would ask just in case to see if anyone else is experiencing this.