iOS 19

By allabtech, 5 November, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi Community,

I know it's not time yet. But as the subject says iOS 19 do you'll have an idea of what next years iOS will look like? I'm just currious!

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By WellF on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I honestly think it'll have more AI bs, plus some minor useful stuff.

By Holger Fiallo on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

More about focussing on making the iOS stable, focus on bugs and finish AI. Nothing major to talk about.

By allabtech on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I have a wish list of what I want Apple to add in terms in VoiceOver features:

1. Changes to how VoiceOver describes images when navigating. I want a feature where you can ask questions about the image that was described to you by VoiceOver. This would be similar to the Picture Smart AI that was introduced with JAWS this year.
2. Run VoiceOver without speech, I want a setting that you can toggle and it would stop VoiceOver from talking when I turn my phone on. This would be useful for Braille users who don't want to hear VoiceOver talk. It would also work when you turn VoiceOver off and then back on. Think of it like macOS where when you turn off VoiceOver and then you turn it on you get no speech feedback.

VoiceOver being it's own application, I want VoiceOver to be it's own stand-alone app which is useful so that way we do not have to go to the Settings app then Accessibility then VoiceOver. On your Home Screen it would be easier to find then going deep into Settings.

Thanks for reading,
Ayub

By TheBlindGuy07 on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

Disagree with voiceover being its own standalone app on ios. Mac VO is not very appreciated and part of the reason is this semantic, as it's nothing less than an utility in the hierarchy of app as for its settings.
Point 1, yeah this will be similar to what talkback does.
A very niche feature I will probably never try myself even for ttesting, it will be a great marketing from apple if they can get the braille screen input to the vision pro as spacial braille input, they literally have everything for it and this would be sick to see.
I have much more to say on a macos 16 voiceover wish list though.

By Brian on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I honestly have no thoughts on iOS 19, but if it is better than day 1 of the public release of iOS 17, it will be a win. However, there are already rumors on iPhone 17 being Apple's first "Flip" smartphone. If you do not know what that is, just imagine something like an iPhone 16 Pro Max, that unfolds into an iPad mini.

Not exact, but close enough I suppose. 🤷

By WellF on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I don't think apple will risk it with the flip phones for now.

By Jonathan Candler on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

Flip phones are starting to come back so wouldn't be surprised if apple did go for that. Look at the ZFlip 6 or whatever it's called.

By Elena Brescacin on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I'm scared, that's the truth. I'm scared that U.S. politicians put their hands on accessibility laws and policies to cut them off so we won't have anything guaranteed any longer. That's the truth so I have no expectations. Hope to be positively disappointed.

By allabtech on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I want to say something. Hopefuly Apple brings sideloading to the U.S. and other countries. If you'll don't know what sideloding is. Sideloading is a feature where you can download apps from outside the App Store. It's only available for those that live on Europe. So, hopefuly Apple brings this to other countries as well.

By Brad on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

I'd recommend staying away from the news sites and tv in the US, I'm from the UK but there does seam to be a lot of negativity around the news there.

I really doubt the government in the US is going to suddenly get rid of or change accessibility laws. I don't know that for a fact of course, you'd know more about that than me but at the moment it does seam like you might have read or heard a bit to much negative news and should back off for your brains health.

By Maldalain on Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 22:50

So that is it in the subject line