The situation, folks, is this: every time I read a message in reply to another message in a Whatsapp chat, Voiceover now reads the original message before reading the reply. I can see in theory why this might sound like a splendid idea but for myself, I find it extremely annoying. I've read replies to very long messages recently, and having to listen to the whole original message again before I hear the reply is extremely irksome. What are people's thoughts? Is this a feature, or a bug? Do you like the new behaviour? Is there any way of reverting to the old behaviour for those of us who find this annoying or am I just going to have to get used to it? Using IOS26.2 on an iPhone 16 Pro Max.
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You can't revert, but you can work around it
Hi there,
There's no way to revert to the old behavior. But you can work around it. Swipe down on the message a few times, and you can copy it. Then you can paste it into the text field to read it and undo once you're done. I realize this is convoluted, but it's either that, suffer through a message of varied length, or switching platforms. Which I know not everyone is inclined to do, even when you're dealing with companies like the Facebook company.
Hope it's a bug
Hello. I experience the same problem with VO and what's app message replies. I hope it's a bug and gets resolved soon. :)