Introducing Autour, an iOS app designed to give blind users a better sense of their surroundings

Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at you about it, I'm just very confused on what to do in this app once I accept the terms of service agreement and what jesters I should use. I think it needs to have some speech feedback telling you users how do use the app.

Other than making noises this app doesn't apere to do anything.

I haven't figured out what to do with this app either. it just makes cute noises but does nothing else. so how do we use the app with no feedback other then noises?

I have been to the website for the app given in the appstore entry and watched the video about it, however I suspect something has gone badly wrong with this apps testing, maybe its because I am using it on a 7 plus, anyway when I start the app after accepting terms and conditions I don't get any tutorial as the news item said I should, the app just sits there and makes short noises that rise in pitch with no other feedback. also I am in the UK so its possible this app won't work in my country.

Same here. I'm rather confused.

I'm using an iPhone SE in Canada. I can't get this app to work either. It didn't even bring up the terms of service for me. I also get no voice feedback at all.

Hi,
I have an iphone 6 plus running ios 10.1. The app used to work for me. Now I am having a problem. I accepted the location allowance question. I only get the feedback when I switch from Radar and Beam modes. I can also get to the settings and other options by swiping up. This is all I can do with this app.
Thanks,
Joann

I can't evn get to the settings with a single finger swipe up. Neither can I do anything with any swiping, tapping, pinching or any other gesture that I know of. Currently running this app on an iPhone SE, 64 gb, running iOS 10.1.

On behalf of the Autour team, I sincerely apologize for the problems you've encountered starting the app. It appears to be getting stuck at the beginning of the interactive tutorial, which is triggered at startup for first-time users, although possibly elsewhere as well . This problem only came to light following Mathieu's post, above. As far as we can tell so far, it only appears to manifest under iOS 10.*. Still, this is most embarrassing.

As a bit of further background, Autour has been in use for approximately three months, predominantly in Canada. We made a conscientious decision to make the app completely free in order to minimize the barriers for adoption by as many blind and visually impaired users as possible. Our hope is to give the community a greater sense of "what's around them" as they walk down the street, and to facilitate their exploration, both of familiar and unfamiliar locales. We believe that Autour offers advantages over BlindSquare and hope you'll agree once you're able to try it properly!

We expect to have the start-up problem resolved shortly, at which time, we will post an update. I very much hope you'll all give Autour a try then.

Autour is a great app if your iPhone running iOS 9. Let's wait for the fix on iOS 10

Thought maybe the bugs identified above were fixed. Just downloaded this app. I said OK to allow the app to access my location, accepted the terms and conditions, then nothing happened. Closed the app and opened it again with the same results. So deleted it.

I'm thinking why all of you guys are complaining (don't get me wrong I'm not trying to be rude), is because approximately 70 percent of you guys are using iOS 10, and 30 percent of us are still on iOS 9.3.5.
So, what I'm guessing, is that people with iOS 10 are having the issue where the app doesn't do anything, but people on iOS 9.3.5 are not having any trouble.
This may also have to do with compatibility of your device. Check the information section in the app store entry and find where it says "Compatibility". Flick right and you will hear the required iOS version, and what devices are compatible to run the app.

On behalf of the Autour team, I'd like to thank everyone for your patience and am delighted to report that the bug that prevented the tutorial from starting under iOS 10 has now been fixed (in version 1.6.7, now available from the App Store). I apologize that we hadn't caught this earlier!

We hope you will give Autour another try and let us know what you think. Also, we are excited to let you know that public transit data has now been added for hundreds of cities around the world.

- Jeremy

Hi this app is really neat! Any chance you can add more voice support in the future? The only thing really stopping me from using this is Samantha as her voice goes right through my head. Other than that I really like this app and I think that the clock feature is great!

My tutorial get stuck on the beam Mode. it says I have to rotate the phone and stay in the same direction as me so it will read out the different places that are around. However, when I rotate, nothing happens and then it just says to retry

No I ment the voice for this app. I am currently using Daniel for Voiceover but the Autour app is using Samantha.

Hello,

In order to change the default system voice, go to the speech settings under Accessibility. I am not talking about the settings in VoiceOver, but the ones that control Speak Screen. Change the voice from that screen and the app will use that as the default. Apple made it function like the SAPI speech control panel in WIndows or the speech section for System preferences on the Mac. This changes the system voice that applications use. Having said that, it would be nice to add an independent setting in the app to adjust the voice.

I set the voice to Daniel there as well but the app still uses Samantha.

What version of iOS are you using? I think this only works on iOS 10.

I am using IOS 10.1.1 on a 6S. This works with other apps such as Audio Darts but not this 1.

When I start the app I am being forced to listen to a tutorial. I can’t move beyond this tutorial and use the app until I play its silly games. Why must this app treat me like a child and force me into a simulated travel route to learn the app? I want to learn the app on my terms not the developer’s idea of how I should learn the app. Blind Square has a user guide but the user is not forced to read it. I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 10.