Apple has released iOS 16 to the public. This post contains details of the VoiceOver, low vision, and Braille bugs which we believe have been introduced in this release; as well as details of the pre-existing bugs which we believe to be resolved.
As is our routine practice, each new bug has been given a severity rating; these ratings are based upon what we believe to be the implications for accessing and using features and functionality and the level of impact on the overall user experience, as well as whether or not there is an effective workaround for the issue. However, as these ratings are subjective, it is very possible that they may not reflect your own opinion or use case.
As we always stress, we can make no claims on the completeness or accuracy of our testing. We have only a small team of testers, and it is simply impossible for us to test all devices, configurations, applications, and use cases.
Some of the bugs listed below will be specific to a certain device, configuration, or use case. Consequently, it is entirely likely that you will not encounter all of what we list; and it is also probable that you will encounter bugs or regressions that we did not identify during our testing.
We strongly recommend that you read through this post and any replies before updatingāas this will allow you to make an informed decision on whether to install iOS 16 or to wait for a future release.
To help us ensure that the information on this page is as complete and accurate as possible, we would appreciate feedback from those who have installed iOS 16 ā both to confirm whether they are encountering the same problems (or have found workarounds), as well as to let us know of any additional issues that are not on this list. Of course, itās even more important that you let Apple know of any additional bugs that you find (they already know about the ones currently listed below). This post explains why you should report bugs directly to Apple, as well as the best ways to do so.
With all of the preamble out of the way, here are the new bugs for blind and low vision users which we believe to be present in iOS 16:
Serious Bugs
We are currently aware of only one new issue that we would consider to be serious, and this involves the use of Invert Colors in combination with VoiceOver seemingly causing the App Switcher to not work.
If you have Invert Colors enabled system-wide, you are likely to find that the App Switcher cannot be activated.
If you use per-app settings to enable Invert Colors for specific apps, you will likely find that the App Switcher will stop working when you open one of these apps.
When this issue presents itself, your device will still provide the normal and expected feedback whilst performing the gesture on iPhones without a Home button to activate the App Switcher, but it will not be activated. Additionally, if you have assigned the Back Tap or a touch gesture to activate the App Switcher, these also won't work if you are effected by this issue. If triggered by an app set to use Invert Colors, the behavior will persist until you restart your iPhone. Turning VoiceOver off and then on again does not return the App Switcher to normal behavior.
The App Switcher is believed to work as expected if you use Invert Colors without VoiceOver also enabled.
We have not been able to test whether this issue is also present on iPhones which have a Home button. If you can confirm if this is or is not the case, please let us know in the comments below.
We do not know if they are related issues, but some people have reported problems on iOS 16 with VoiceOver focus whilst using the App Switcher and VoiceOver on occasions behaving as if there are two instances of the same app in the App Switcher.
Our thanks go to EglÄ, who enabled us to determine that Invert Colors is the cause of the App Switcher issue.
Moderate Bugs
- When using Live Captions, as new text arrives, a Braille display user is interrupted from where they are currently reading and placed at the start of the line.
- After pressing space with dots 1-7 on a Braille display to emulate the command key, it is no longer possible to follow this up with a letter such as command n.
- On the Now Playing screen in the native Music app, VoiceOver speaks UI elements which are not visually present on screen or actionable. Specifically, all of the Now Playing controls and UI elements are present and work as expected, but when flicking left or right with 1-finger to move VoiceOver focus, VoiceOver's navigation and feedback will wrongly behave as if the UI elements from the Music app screen that you were previously on are also still present on screen. They are not.
- After double-tapping the āSend laterā button in the Mail scheduling menu, double-tapping the time does not work to expand the UI element, making the date the only thing that can be edited when scheduling an email with VoiceOver.
- In the Shortcuts app, any list of App Shortcuts provided by a 3rd party app is spoken by VoiceOver as a series of unlabelled buttons
- In Find My, after selecting the āDevicesā tab and double-tapping a device, there is sometimes a delay between touching or swiping the screen and VoiceOver speaking the name of the focused element.
Minor Bugs
- The following editing commands do not work when using a Braille displays keyboard: Select All, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Cut. Based upon our testing, it appears that these commands are only issues on the iPhone SE 2 and iPhone SE 3. If you are encountering these bugs, you can work around them by using the Edit Rotor. Press space with 2-3 until arriving at the edit rotor and then press space with dot 3 or space with dot 6 to get to the option you wish to activate.
- When entering text using a Braille keyboard, pressing dot 8 invokes a menu and does not insert a line break as expected. This bug also appears to only be impacting SE 2 and SE 3 users, and can be worked around by adding space with dots 2-7 to emulate the Option key followed by dot 8, or space with dot 8 if using eight-dot input.
- When using Braille Screen Input in combination with Eloquence, the pauses between characters in contracted symbols ā and when using echo in general ā are too great to be useful as you need to wait too long for confirmation.
- The āMoreā menu item is no longer available from the VoiceOver rotor for notifications on the Lock screen or in the Notification Center. Note that the same functionality as previously available from the āMoreā menu item can still be accessed by performing a long press or 1 finger triple-tap on the notification. The āMoreā menu item is still available from the rotor on notifications when they display as a temporary banner on the Home screen.
- If you have notification grouping enabled for the Lock Screen, you may on occasions find that a group is not expanded when you double-tap on it. Our experience is that this most commonly happens when there are one or more other groups of notifications below the one that you have double-tapped on. Typically the group will expand if you double-tap it a second time.
- After clearing a single notification from the Lock screen, VoiceOver may behave as if it were still present on screen. Specifically, after using the āClearā option from the VoiceOver rotor, the notification is visually cleared from the Lock Screen. However, when moving VoiceOver focus by flicking, you may find that VoiceOver navigation and feedback will behave as if the notification is still on screen.
- The āAdjust Valueā VoiceOver rotor menu item does not work on the Lock screen audio scrubber. Specifically, when the Now Playing widget is on the Lock Screen, VoiceOver will indicate that you can swipe up or down with 1-finger on the position scrubber to adjust the position. However, this does nothing. You can perform a 1-finger tap and hold, followed by a ādragā to the left or right to move position, but this does not allow for accurate or small changes to the position.
- VoiceOver does not clearly or accurately report the current status of the Focus mode toggle in the Control Center, in particular when it is enabled.
- In Focus mode settings, any existing automation for a Focus mode is announced by VoiceOver as an unlabelled button. Specifically, if you have created triggers for a Focus mode to be automatically enabled ā such as at specific time or location ā where these are listed in the settings for the Focus Mode, each will be an unlabelled button.
- In the Messages app, the Pin option in the VoiceOver Actions menu does not work. Note that the Unpin option doe does work as expected. As a workaround, you can perform a long press or 1 finger triple-tap on a thread to activate a contextual menu that contains an option to pin the thread.
- When VoiceOver is enabled, keyboard feedback sounds may intermittently disappear whilst typing.
- After entering customization mode on the Lock Screen, there are some UI elements which VoiceOver users can only locate by touch, not flicking. Specifically, there is a page picker and buttons for āCustomizeā and āAddā which are visually present below each preview of existing Lock screens. If you flick to move VoiceOver focus through the screen, these are not located. However, they can be located by touch. Note that āCustomizeā, is available from the VoiceOver rotor when focus is on the preview image, whilst the last UI element found by VoiceOver when flicking right is a blank preview that can be double tapped to āAdd New Lock screenā and which serves the same purpose as the āAddā button.
- When customising a Lock Screen and dragging a widget to either add it to the Lock Screen or change its position, VoiceOver provides no feedback.
- When customizing a Lock Screen, VoiceOver does not announce the name of the widget that is currently placed in the top slot. However, VoiceOver does speak the names of widgets placed in the other available slots.
- When customising the Lock Screen, VoiceOver will on occasions wrongly behave as if the āShow Notificationsā button is on screen and actionable. This appears to only happen if the button was present on the Lock Screen before activating customisation mode.
- When the Activity widget is placed in the top slot on the Lock Screen, VoiceOver will speak its information in the form of āFitness MoveACCESSIBILITY_MOVE_PROGRESS_LABEL_KILOCALORIESExercise93 minutesStand5 hours out of 12 hoursā. Note that the information is spoken correctly if the widget is placed in one of the other available slots.
- When focusing on a note in Notes, there is a rotor action labeled āShareā and another labeled āshare button.ā The āShare buttonā action serves the same purpose as the āshareā action, making it redundant.
- When viewing a data chart in the native Weather app ā for instance the wind or temperature charts for the day ā the āChart Detailsā VoiceOver rotor menu item does not work. Note the āDescribe chartā and āPlay audio graphā menu items work as expected.
- In Settings, VoiceOver does not speak the information displayed about devices linked to your Apple ID, such as the serial number and model.
Other Reported Bugs
We recommend that you read the following threads in our forum, as they mention some bugs which have not been encountered or yet reproduced by any of our team so are not included above:
- iOS 16, Should You Update as a VoiceOver User?
- iOS 16 release candidate now available
- Warning about Direct Touch before you update to iOS 16
- VoiceOver Bug in iOS 16.0 That causes Routine Voiceover crashes
- Bugs in IOs 16 that I haven't seen mentioned
- Tom's voice quality in iOS 16
- Messages in iOS 16 - The good and the bad
If you encounter any additional VoiceOver, Braille or low vision bugs in iOS 16, please let others know by posting a reply below. When doing so, please provide as much information as possible so that others know exactly what to expect; when and where the problem occurs; and any possible workarounds you have found.
Accessibility Improvements in iOS 16
Our testing suggests that the following pre-existing accessibility bugs have been resolved or significantly addressed in iOS 16:
- When listening to audio through wireless headphones, you should no longer find that on occasions the volume level drops significantly when the device goes to sleep
- After connecting a USB HID compatible Braille display, there are now acknowledgements that the device is connected
- If a HID compatible Braille display is connected over USB and has had custom commands added through Bluetooth, the custom commands now work with USB
- When a HID compatible Braille display is connected through USB, it is now possible to use contractions which contain a symbol before a letter
- On the Weather app's small widget, the graphic that visually indicates the current weather conditions is now recognized and announced by VoiceOver
- On the Weather app's small widget, the high and low temperature information is no longer spoken twice by VoiceOver
If you encounter any additional fixes or improvements during your own use of iOS 16, please let us know by posting a reply below.
In Closing
We have been compiling these lists of new bugs for every major iOS release since iOS 7. In our opinion, although iOS 16 introduces a number of new bugs for VoiceOver and Braille users, it should be a stable and usable update for most use cases. However, there are certain to be more issues discovered and shared; so, if you haven't already upgraded, we would strongly recommend that you take a few moments to read through any replies to this post before doing so. You may also want to consider that in recent years, Apple has typically fixed a significant number of VoiceOver and Braille bugs in the first couple of updates to follow major iOS releases.
When posting in the comments, we ask that you please keep discussion on-topic and related specifically to accessibility bugs introduced or resolved in iOS 16. Our announcement posts about yearly major iOS updates usually receive a significant number of helpful replies; making it all the more important that readers be able to quickly navigate through the comments to find the information they need. Additionally, when posting, please remember that the decision about whether or not to install a software update is personal; and that everyone's situation is different and there is no right or wrong answer. Posts criticizing others on their upgrade decisions are not constructive and do nothing to add to the discussion. You should also accept that not personally experiencing a bug mentioned above or in the comments does not mean that the bug does not exist. As stated above, bugs can be specific to a device, configuration or use case. Telling somebody that the bug they are experiencing does not exist on the basis that you haven't encountered it is not helpful.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Apple's Accessibility Team for their timely response to a majority of the bug reports filed by our team during the beta cycle. It continues to be clear from our experience that the Accessibility Team has strived to ensure that iOS offers the best possible experience to blind and low vision users.
Comments
App switcher
I figured out, that appswitcher doesn't work if you use invert colors, or you use only specific apps, which you invert colors. Otherwise it works correctly.
Best release I can remember.
I wonāt make a long comment as Iām not reporting bugs which is the purpose of this page but I just wanted to say I was extremely hesitant to update after previous nightmare years but this release has actually been a slight improvement for me with no notable new bugs. Plenty of old ones hanging around but nothing new. For anyone wondering if they should update early this year, unless you are unfortunate enough to get the app switcher bug, this is a good update. Itās even significantly quicker than iOS15 on my 11 Pro Max. Thanks to Apple accessibility team and beta testers reporting bugs and working with Apple, it looks like your hard work paid off.
Unable to open notifications
I am unable to open notifications on the lock screen and the notification center. When I double tap the notification it does nothing. I've tried it multiple times. I have reported the bug to apple. Is anyone else having this issue? Have you found a work around?
Thank you,
Andy previous bags hanging around?
Andy is the focus jumping around bug in Safari still around? Other major box hanging around? Thank you
Notifications
Yes. I've had this issue, but it seemed as if I were alone in it.
A few bugs I have foundšš¦šššššŖ³šŖ²š·ļøš·ļø
Here are a few bugs I have found in iOS 16.
When trying to drag an action up and down in a short cut, voiceover does not give audible feedback as to where the action is.
For example, if you had a short cut with the actions speak text, sho notification, and show alert, dragging up on the show alert action and trying to move it will act as if it isnāt moving, but will still give haptic feedback as the action is moved up and down.
Another bug I found is that when using headphones , the navigational sounds are a bit laggy and arenāt conveyed properly. For example, VoiceOver makes a sound to let you know when you move down or up a row. for example, when swiping right and you go down a row, you hear a tone pan from left to right that gets higher in pitch. When you swipe left and go up a row, the tone goes from right to left and goes lower in pitch. With this bug, you just hear the lower side, but pand in the center. With headphones, you just hear one of those clicks, and it might be hard for some people to tell whether itās been moved up or down. Also, sounds are especially laggy and sometimes donāt play right away if you flick really fast. This is probably the most annoying bug in iOS 16 yet.
There is a workaround to fix the issue of not being able to tell which way the navigational sounds are going, and that is to go to settings, accessibility, voiceover, audio, and toggle off and on one of the sound channels for the device youāre using in the very bottom of the screen. That does not fix the lagging of the sounds, but it fixes The ability to hear all sounds as they normally should sound in headphones.
Another bug I have found regarding the app switcher is if I open the app switcher and donāt touch an app with explore by touch, it wonāt say that the app is active, and sometimes it will move you to the top of the app switcher And then behave as normal. There is no workaround, but when this happens, you can just use a four finger tap at the bottom of the screen to return to the most recent app.
If I find any more bugs, which I probably will or will not, I will be sure to post them here.
Issue I would consider serious,with how notifications are spoken
I'm using an iPhone 13 pro max & have found a bug:
Please test the following:
1. enable voiceover if it isn't already & lock your screen
2. Wait until you have multiple notifications. Once you do,post here, exactly what voiceover says.
Note: You'll need to enable "speak notifications" for this test, if you haven't already done so.
On my device, voiceover always reads the top notification, which is from a few days ago, despite the number of how ever many other notifications, there are, that have come in after it. What it should be doing, is reading those.
books is now inaccessible
IOS 16 seems to have broken the books app. The page switcher in an individual book. is no longer visible. Is anyone else having this problem? I've encountered it since the first public beta
To blackadder
Apologies, I canāt be definitive about focus bugs as Iāve only had the update a couple of days. I have to say though it seems more stable. Iād wait for others with more experience to give more valuable opinions though. Thats a cunning plan.
Thanks Egle
Thank you to @Egle for the comment at the top regarding the app switcher.
For me the bug was only kicking in after I opened the Files app, while others are experiencing it much more frequently. I never made the connection until I read your comment, but under the Per App accessibility settings, I had the Files app set to smart invert. I have now removed that setting and indeed the bug no longer occurs.
Can others experiencing the bug verify?
Itās still a bad situation of course for those who really rely on inverted colours, but, particularly if it proves to be the sole cause, means we have a much better chance of getting a quick resolution from Apple.
I can also confirm that it is only the invert colours accessibility settings that are triggering this for me; the standard dark mode setting is fine.
Dave
The Books App
I can still use the Books app in iOS 16. It isn't as intuitive as it used to be. If you are reading a book and you wan to use the page selector you need to double-tap the menu button at the bottom of the screen. Once in the menu you will see the page selector It's clunkier than it used to be, but it still works.
bug with folders still
they still have not resolved the editing of apps. You can accidently create a folder if you click "drag after" or "drag before" re apps. It is as though focus jumps after you click those option in the actions rotor. the sound also does not play if dragging by hand. I have reported both; so far no fix.
To Andy
Thank you very much
Magic Tap No Longer Works After Switching Apps
Hi,
I installed the iOS 16 Public Beta last evening. A bug I seem to have found is when invoking the 2-finger double-tap to pause media, and switch apps, I am then unable to resume playing content. for instance, if I stop music playing with the magic tap, check email, then attempt to resume said music, nothing happens. I need to head back to the app I was using, (such as Spotify or Voicedream Reader), to resume manually. I have tried tapping on the screen, and through the control on the Apple earbuds. If simply playing/pausing content, and not switching to another app, the function works as intended.
Braille Bugs
Sorry but I find braille bugs serious not minor! I mean no offense, but wondering why you classified them as minor! I can not perform edit commands using my braille display? That's major bug for me.
Does anyone know if theā¦
Does anyone know if the cursor focus issue has been fixed in this update? If I click on any link on a webpage I'm yanked back to the top, if I leave the page to look at anything else for a second it's back to the top, if I try to search for anything in Voice Dream the cursor jumps around like a fly with a sugar high, and on and on. It's getting so bad and this is an issue in every app and has been for most of iOS 15. Please tell me they fixed it again. It seems like this is one of the most basic functions that is constantly being broken.
Well however odd but
Ok Guys The above has fixed app switcher. Once invert colours was turned off I had to reboot the phone but then it worked fine. Lord knows why that option should cause such an issue. Anyway it seems fixed.
Should have added
In app switcher I do have what appears to be more than one version of apps. However, some don't seem to be real. The actual app you want to close/activate says actions available after reading it out where as the rogue apps don't.
reply to Maldalain
Hi Maldalain.
First, these editing command bugs appear to be only impacting SE 2 and SE 3 users, so if you're not on one of those phones, you may not experience them. ON an SE 2 or SE 3, Yes, you still can perform editing commands, it just must be done through the edit rotor. For example,if you wish to select all while in a document, you can press space with 2-3 or 5-6 to move to the edit rotor. Now, press dot 3 or 6 to get to select all. You can use the same process to activate the copy, cut, paste and other functions. Is it convenient? No it is not, I can assure you of that since I've been having to do this myself.
This paragraph is purely a perspective on this, and maybe I don't have the right one. I'm open to dialog about it for sure. Anyway, I usually have the ratings in my head broken down based on whether the bug in question cuts off access to a portion of the operating system's functionality beyond the bug itself. Since there are workarounds for these editing bugs, I marked them as minor. Should they be moderate? It could be argued that if a braille display user doesn't understand how to utilize the edit rotor that it cuts off access because they don't know of the way to work around it. Or you could argue that since it involves pressing several more keyboard commands to achieve what you could have done in one command, that this makes it moderate. I'm not sure what I think of that to be honest. As for the Command key emulation, I put that as moderate because it does cut off access for things in applications which do not have a work around. Some do, of course, like you can press space with 4-5-6 in notes to get to the "New Note" button, but others do not.
I know you were referring to the editing commands, but I will also expand on one of the other bugs. Pressing enter seems to launch a menu instead of inserting a new line. Coincidentally, that menu also contains options like copy, paste and so forth. You can still also insert a new line in a text field by pressing space with 2-7 to emulate the Option key followed by dot 8. Again, I flagged it as minor since there is a workaround. I hope this helps explain why I categorized these bugs, and should you experience them, that the above info helps.
A terrible iMessage Change
This isn't a bug, but it's a very bad feature change for me and probably anyone else that sends audio iMessages like myself, so I wanted to mention it since I haven't seen it brought up anywhere yet. Now, instead of being able to touch the bottom right, double-tap and hole, then slide up to lock your recording, it's been shoved under the Apps button and called simply "Audio." Most frustratingly for me, however, is that you can no longer lock your recording! You can now only slide one direction to send your message, another direction to cancel it. This of course means they've taken away the ability to play or delete your audio message after recording. It just gets attached as any other App does and you send the message. I probably won't be updating my SE3 because of this for a while.
Now this is weard! App Switcher again
I decided to leave the Beta program, because in IOS 16 Beta RC is a matter of what you see is what you going to experience after installing the stable version on Monday. Well! Well! The App Switcher is now working on my iPhone 13Pro
Locking The Record Button In iMessage
The record button can be oocked in iOS 16. Just double-tap the record button and it will be locked.
Thanks, EglÄ
I'm not brave enough to install pre-release operating systems but am really excited for the release of this. I was a bit worried about the app switcher bug, so I hope EglÄ has found the culprit. I'd forgotten I had smart invert enabled for a number of apps, which is a bit redundant now I use screen curtain.
I've not seen the rogue appsā¦
I've not seen the rogue apps and I'm running ios 16 rc on an older iPhone 10r. Interesting. The folders bug is still there however, and I did report that, again, this year.
You can still lock the audio messages to record your voice.
@ James Dean the action still works, you simply tap on the audio after making the apps visable and then you double tap on the center bottom, that will lock the audio message and allow you to record your message hands free, then you double tap on it again and then you tap on the send button located in the righ corner, just where the send button for Imessages usually is.
Found 3 more bugs
1. In watch app, in language rotor, can't add certain languages, like catalan or valencian. it just doesn't add them when I tap on them and brings me back to settings page.
2. Same screen: Serbo-Croatian is listed as mainland china. sx and sz languages also exist, no idea what they are
3. When in App Store on watch itself, can't find search button to type.
All these bugs have been reported to apple through feedback app.
Health
In health if you add medications there is issue with focus. Check the podcast from Mosen at large. He did a demo and talk about the issues with iOS 16.
nathan default voice
I found a bug. When nathan default encounters a sentence beginning with a B, it makes a click, glitch, beep combination that sounds like an over compressed mp3.Read the following with Nathan default, and it will be apparent. I submitted this, and the bugs with music to apple, and they're still there. Because of the nathan bug, I can't use his default voice. Before, I was hesitant to try the beta. Betas aren't really something I do on my only iphone anymore. Books also has a bug with audiobooks, where it doesn't say which chapter is selected in table of contents. Before, in IOS 15, whichever chapter was currently playing said "selected" as you'd expect. But now, you have to wait until the title of a chapter is finished being read by voiceover, and it will say something like currently playing. That's rather annoying if your book has long chapter titles. I wasn't sure if I should report that one. It might be seen as just a simple change rather than something that needs to be fixed. I'm not seeing the issue with the track position slider not moving through a track either when books or music are playing and I'm using the lock screen. Speaking of music, there's one I found, where after you finally locate the more button that would take you to things like add to library or add to playlist, it bounces. What I mean, is that if you've flicked forward to some element beyond the first, it will randomly keep jumping back to the first element. If I want to add something to a playlist, rather than staying on the add to playlist element, it will go back to the add to library element. That's REALLY annoying. There is one thing I love that they did with lock screen track display though, they took out the name of whatever it's playing through. Before, it would say something like, iphone name of track, )tist, album. Now the name "iphone" out. I'm not really happy with them removing the volume slider though, as I like to keep an eye, or rather, ear I guess, on where the percentage is.
to get your model number,ā¦
to get your model number, tap the model number, it should switch to a shorter model abbreviation, or is this a different issue?
iMessage Change and another bug fixed!
Thanks for letting me know that the recording can still be locked just by double-tapping the record button. I still don't like that it's in the Apps now, but I'll just have to get used to it. I updated to the latest Beta yesterday and noticed that the bug where using "Clear" in the actions roter on the lock screen wouldn't actually get rid of the notification until you went back and swiped through the actions until you got to "dismiss" has finally been fixed! So I guess I can safely update on Monday!
Braille bugs for editing text with Mantis Q40
Are the edit bugs, such as dot 8 with space, copy and paste, etc. are present with the Mantis Q40?
I also found a bug in Safari, even though I'm not sure if this is a bug. When navigating a web page, you can't have always access to the the toolbar that contains the buttons back, bookmarks, tabs, etc. The fixe for that is to perform a four fingers touch at the top of the screen to go back to the first page.
braille screen improvments
Sometimes in iOS 15, some characters were not spoken when using braille screen input. This seems to be fixed.
I don't know why this isn'tā¦
I don't know why this isn't classified as a bug but it should be and also it should be under serious but this is just my oppinion I guess. I know I've seen this on other threads as well. When setting up a phone, when you restart the phone there's no voiceover. This is also true in ios16. I dug out my old IPhone8 so that I could try the beta on it to decide if I want to update on my primary phone tomorrow. Everything went smoothly. Voiceover came back after the phone itself restarted after the install. However when I manually restarted the phone disaster struck. I couldn't even get siri to engage. I also tried the suggested options that other people have posted about when running into this problem. Unfortunately like a few others who have ran into this problem I'm having to restore my phone as a last rezort. Luckily it's not my primary device. Someone needs to get this on the bug report thread.
@Troy
I think this is a bug when using a siri voice as your VoiceOver voice. If you change your voiceOver to a non-siri voice (such as Samantha or Alex) this shouldn't be a problem. This is what I think this is just what I read on these other forums that it is a siri issue and i can restart my device using a Non-Siri voice and it works just fine.
@Olivier
If I'm not mistaken the Mantis has a QWERTY keyboard? If you use that it shouldn't be a problem since it's not necesarrily a braille command.
I've actually had thisā¦
I've actually had this happen twice with Samantha as well.
I've not had this happen atā¦
I've not had this happen at all. I've ehard of i this happening if the voice has to download which is why I use a default voice that ships woth voiceover at set up.
playlists and sorting
Has anyone else seen this, it is driving me mad. In the native music app, in IOS 15, my playlist always went in order of oldest added at the top, newest recently added on the bottom, in other words it went in oldest to newest order. In IOS 16, that is gone, the thing is a mess, and their new sorting control is very unreliable. It looks like the files you add today will show up in chronological order, but the next day it's all messy again. The "sort by" option under "more" at the very top has 5 options under it, title, artist, album, release date, and playlist order. The only ones that work properly are title, artist, and album. The other two only partially work. With release date, some songs will show up in order and some won't. It's like there are clusters of songs that work and ones that are just scattered here and there. This often ends up breaking albums apart, causing songs from an album not to be together in the list. If you use playlist order, it will show up as I said before, but if you haven't added anything in the last day, it will show up in alphabetical order. I don't understand why it's so disorganized. It's not just the playlists that you create that do this either, they all do except for the ones like "new music mix" and such under "made for you". I don't think this is an accessibility bug, but I'm not really sure. Either way it's frustrating me to death.
mantis q40 precisions
Hello,
Yes, that is write. The mantis has a qwerty keyboard instead of a braille one.
speaking while dictating..
in IOS 16, i will be dictating into an edit field and a female voice will from time to time start reading some gibberish. Dictation seems to continue but I can't figure out what this is. Has anyone else experienced this?
iPhone SE 2020 and IOS 15.6.1
I know this might be an irrelevant comment on this post but I am witnessing some very strange bugs with my iPhone SE 2020 that is on IOS 15.6.1 and not sure if I am going to dare to update to 16 on this phone.
I don't use the app. switcher instead use the spotlight search feature to find and open apps. Three fingers swipe down on home screen will get you an edit box where you can type in the app. name, this gesture can also help you search contacts quickly. Try it out really handy and time saving.
Here are the bugs: (anyone experiencing the same; oblige and reply - much appreciated)
1. accessibility/ voiceover/ rotar - cannot drag and drop the items in the list; have to use the rearrange button to move up/ down and it's really time consuming if you want to rearrange the order of the items.
2. Shortcuts app.: automation; When trigger is leave, action is to turn WiFi off; there is no toggle to turn off ask before running. Not sure if this is a bug or the automation is limited; same issue with turning data off when joining a WiFi network
3. YouTube app.: Recently happening so not sure if voiceover bug or app. bug cannot scroll homepage of the app. using the 3 finger swipe up to the next page of videos.
Siri: Ask it to play todays news; which is to play the latest podcast of the news show but it starts to play a radio station. Asked it to play the song Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and it plays another track that isn't even close!
Thanks to aging, these are the ones I can remember but honestly there are a lot more; reset the phone i.e. erase all settings and data and then restored using iCloud but this did not help fix anything!
Direct Touch and Apps
Hi, can anyone confirm whether we will be able to use the Blindfold Games apps on iOS16? These apps and some others use direct touch and one user has reported that direct touch is buggy and doesn't work. If this is the case, I will hold off from updating later. Thanks.
Blindfold games
Hello,
On my iPhone SE 3, Hear Clues and Blindfold Doggy seem to work. I don't know if it is true for the other games though.
VoiceOver crashings
Did anyone have this? VoiceOver completely crashes. The only way to fixe this is to hard reboot the phone. I had this bug two or three times this summer nd I had it on my SE 3 yesterday. I'll keep my 13 on 15 for now. This is happening rendomly. I don't have steps to reproduce. When you try to unlock the phone, you have no speech at all.
Eloquence sounds awful!
as I say in the subject line eloquence sounds absolutely dreadful! It really is a bit of a disappointment. I know some of you were testing the beta and might be used to it now, but goodness me as far as I'm concerned, it's not really usable, not the end of the worldāas someone else has said on here, Jamie is a top knotch Uk English voice. I'm trying to decide whether I prefer him or Siri female, which happily appears to be fixed after she developed a curious eccentricity on my phone with the last IOS version. Back to Eloquence though, it sounds like it's talking into a cup. Anyone else take the same view? Was it always like this?
PS: I've done a bit of this comment using the dictation feature and that does seem to have got quite a lot better.
Problem using 2 tts
Hello, thank you for adding Dariush
But there is a problem with using Dariush and eloquence
I can't use two tts
For example, I cannot choose to read English by Eloquence and Persian by Dariush
I have to switch between tts
Please read Farsi with tts Dariush
No speech after reboot
When I restart my phone, Voiceover doesn't work. No amount of pressing the side button 3 times, or trying to activate Siri, has brought it back. I actually had to go next door to ask my neighbor to enter my password. As soon as she did this, speech was back.
Re: Problem using 2 TTS
@0mohammad, this was reported to Apple in June with the feedback number FB10079436. However, it hasn't been fixed and, as you rightly mentioned, VoiceOver either doesn't detect Persian or uses the low-quality built-in Arabic voice to read Persian which is obviously incomprehensible. The manual voice selection via the Rotor is a headache.
I suggest that you also report this to Apple using the feedback number FB10079436.
I had this exact sameā¦
I had this exact same problem yesterday with the rc beta on an old IPhone8.
Re: Eloquence sounds awful!
@Bingo Little, Unfortunately, IMO at least, that's indeed the case. And, of course, switching back and forth among VO voices does more harm to Eloquence which sounds muffled or boxy. That has been mostly the case over the beta-testing period though Apple once tried upsampling Eloquence which made it more problematic! So back to the status quo it went.