Apple Releases iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2; Bringing Many Bug Fixes for Blind and Low Vision Users

Hello all. Just updated this morning. So far so good on my end, but I noticed something interesting. This might not be a bug, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced. My iPhone spoke the word "hello" in Arabic, Spanish and Korean. I actually found this to be quite enjoyable as I took Spanish in school.

This has been happening ever since I first got my iPhone 4S with iOS 5 back in 2012. Before the phone is first activated as new, or re-set up after a big update, this always occurs at the initial screen. The greeting also changes languages visually, so it's only appropriate that the VoiceOver voice follows suit dynamically, as it happens. I actually find it a rather cool nice little touch.
Lukas

quote Are your banners set for temporary or persistent? unquote

temporary, but it happens only i'm using certain apps, so i think i'll let it slide unless it gets worse.

really don't like the new share sheet, it shows all recent contacts on top and can't be turned off, which genius's idea is that?

the feature i wanted most is the "watch" feature, sort of like the hotspot feature on mac, but the current implementation is very poor. when you watch an area, vo need to focus and stay at the spot for it to work, it's not like you can set up a spot to watch, go somewhere and be prompted when the spot changes. this limits its usefulness, in fact, it's not very useful in its current form.

Just sent an email to Apple Insider. Got a respond from Victor. He asked about where we discus issues related to bugs and anything related to Apple. I encourage him to check applevis. Maybe he would do so and learn about the issues we have and talk about it on his podcast.

Hi if someone turns off announce notifications on the lock screne, will VO stop announcing the time after a notification appears?

I know this is not the place but I had not seen anything yet about OS 6.1 Good news for those of us who use Series watch. Siri voice works well on OS 6.1 Go to setting, accessibility, and voiceover. Make sure she is on. If you turn her off, (she might get mad of you), You will hear Samantha. This is nice. She sound good.

If I receive a notification but don't open or clear it up, Voiceover will announce it agajn when I press the side button to lock the screen. At least it doesn't read the content and limits to say notification. This is a very annoying bug. Can someone else reproduce».

The time being announced after a notification is read on the lock screen is a result of focus returning to the time rather than staying focused on the notification itself. I suspect this is intentional on Apple's part, although I prefer the focus to remain on the notification so it's easier to clear. With focus returning to the time, one must flick back down to the notification in order to clear it. However, I doubt this is a bug. I suggest making it a feature request to return to the behavior prior to iOS 13.

I was another who lost the enhanced voices and got switched to the US default voice although UK English is my default. Took a lot of fiddling about but eventually got things working as they should again.
Sadly triple clicking shift for capslock remains broken for me too which is annoying.
Thanks for another great article :)

quote the answer with the share sheet thing is to learn to touch the screen below that messages section when the share sheet comes up, rather than swiping through them all. unquote

you talking about me? well, i rarely swipe, and the new sheet is a very bad design.

first, one could order things with the old sheet, that's the new favorite section. but now the favorite section becomes one item per line, so if you have a long list, you'll need to scroll to next page and maybe more, how is this more efficient? and you still have some of the commonly used items arranged horizontally, why?

if the favorite section is so advanced, then one should be able to move contacts to the bottom or just hide it. you arrange your most favorites on top, and if you don't want to use recent contacts, why should they be on top?

but just like apple, sometimes they just change the interface around for change's sake.

Hello all,
I found that when I received a notification message with a banner,sometimes I lose the focus of the app I was operated.Usually to solve this problem I need to close the voiceover and restart it.Have you encountered such a problem?

Hi,
I found the guide dog emoji. I was hoping it would be a person with a guide dog but alas I am still happy that it is there I hope someday they can make it so you can make the lab black or yellow I found the wheelchair emojis and I found the death emoji‘s I found some kind of emoji‘s of a person with a broken cane where are the emojis of the people with the white canes? I cannot seem to find them. I think it is cool that they have these though I’ve been waiting a while for them it is really cool to see new emojis and find out what they come up with it is really fun to see new emojis and see what kinds of things they come up with it’s always crazy to see new things they can come up with anything and make an emoji out of it sometimes it’s cool like this and sometimes it’s so funny that it’s ridiculous. But anyway I guess I am just trying to figure out where the cane white cane accessibility emojis on any help is appreciated. :-)

hi all, for the person who had the issue with voiceover talking when you get notifications and you lock your screen, i can confirm this does happen.

Hi All,

Ok this probably relates to other findings. But I've come across a very disturbing issue. If the phone is unlocked and I get a notification VO keeps reading it back every few seconds and focus is taken to it. This goes on for minutes and you have to clear it to stop it happening. Problem is it takes away from the app so is a nightmare. It may be app specific as I was using audible at the time. Once a new notification comes in then that one becomes the focus. So it seems to be the last one you get. I tried a hard reset and at first this seemed to work. Then, it came back. Very annoying. iOS13.2 iPhone 8.

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I updated from IOS12 to 13.2 yesterday. I love the new swipe to type keyboard. I found a bug with it though in that if both VO and zoom is enabled the keyboard doesn't enter any text, it speaks it out loud as if it is working, but nothing goes into the text field.
Such a pity, this is almost as fast for me as FlickType and once working correctly will be great.

Hi,

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but I haven't come across it yet. When you wake your device up, the time is now spoken consistently. In earlier versions of iOS 13, when you woke up the device, the time wasn't always spoken, you just heard the Voiceover clicks.

I was using Siri male as my default voiceover and was doing well. Today when I restart my iPhone XS, he is no longer there. I check under accessibility, voiceover, speech and selected siri male yet siri female is default. This is with unlucky 13,2

I wasn’t experiencing this before, but I now have VO speaking when invoking Siri. Super annoying!!
Hey Sarah,
With blind emoji I typed blind man and got a blind man with probing cane emoji in predictions.

I had this issue for a long time in unlucky iOS 13.1

Not sure if this is a bug or just a coincidence but after updating to 13.2 my notifications on my ring app stopped working, reinstalling the ring app fixed this.

Hey guys. I recently created another forum post about an issue that's bugging me. I would appreciate any help you can offer.
https://www.applevis.com/forum/voiceovers-english-us-voices-are-rebelling-please-help
Also, to Holger Fiallo, please stop calling it unlucky iOS 13. While I can understand why you are, I don't feel like that kind of negativity is very constructive in this thread. Thanks.

I've had this issue since 13.1 also. But it's been unpredictable. Sometimes it'll do it, & other times it won't. It might be a hard bug 4 them 2 fix if it's like this because it's not persistent. Not saying it can't/won't be fixed, just saying it might be a more tricky 1 to squash.

Overall, I've had good experiences so far with 13.2 in general. Had a bit of an issue with using Spotify with Siri. Buj I just went in, turned the setting off then on again & all was well.
Haven't tested 2 see if the dock issue is resolved, but I've had this annoying & odd issue since 13.1. I also had issues with Braigo crashing while trying 2 upload images to it. Haven't tested it again either 2 see if it's been fixed, because I''ve been using Seeing Ai. & I'm really loving it. I'd used it before but in a very limited capacity. But now, I'm uiing it, and falling more in love with it every day. But I do plan 2 test the dock issue @ some point. Hope no one else had this issue with 13.1 & it's predecesors. Because I installed it, and it didn't happen right away. Ij happened a week or 2 after.
Then I called Accessibility, did screen sharing, duplicated the bug 4 the tech guy, got videos taken of it & sent out. Even they agreed it's an odd 1.

Also, such a nickname doesn't really do anyone any favours, nor is it constructive.

Related to the mail bug: When I move through a list of messages and hear enough of the content that I have no needto even open said message, after deleting I get sent to the back button rather than as formerly to land on the next message. It really is a pest!

I have a 6s and, while playing audio content (apple music, podcasts, whatever), if I lock the screen it will unlock right away and VO will announce the time constantly. It is so annoying!

ios14 will be out next fall lol.

hi all, i've had an issue with 13.2 where when say for example your browsing bye headings with sites like this one applevis, you can go to the first heading, but if you flick passed it you can't proseed to the next heading. has anyone else had this issue? the only way i've found to be able to proseed when this happens is going back to the top of the page then flicking down.

I just found a bug, I was watching youtube and had just started playing a video, a call happened to come in at the same time the video started, when I answered the call the video did not pause causing the audio to continue to play in the ear peace while I was on the call. Not sure if this is a youtube thing or an apple thing so not sure who to notify about this one.

I think it is an Apple bug. I have noticed if you are playing a video in the Apple Photos app, then you switch to another video, the first video doesn't stop and it tries to play both at once. after hearing about your issue, I believe it is an Apple problem because it sounds very similar to the one that I have noticed.

I have noticed this one since the introduction of iOS 13. If I am sending a text, after typing my message, I do a touch and explore for the "send" button. However, instead of reading other messages in my thread, the iPhone reads previous messages that I have sent to other people. As an example, if I am sending a text to Bilbo Baggins, after typing my text, I then search and explore to find the "send" button. However, instead of identifying other messages that Bilbo and I have sent back and forth, Voiceover reads message threads from Smaug, Frodo, Sauron, and Gandalf. I hope this makes sense with my example.

I was going to upgrade but after reading all these posts I would rather not. Αχαιοί το iOS thirteen Γουίστ I state τον άγιο στο Α. Oh and this is another back of iOS thirteen Greek and Ίνγκλις and the same sentence χα χα χα

I've noticed a minor bug with bluetooth speakers. If you use a lot of bluetooth speakers, as I do, VO is not playing through the speaker, yet the music or other audio does play. The speaker is indeed connected, and you can hear the audio, but VO still plays through the iPhone or iPad. Yet this doesn't happen with my headsets. I have alerted Apple about this, and they're aware of the problem.

Incidentally, as a whole, I've updated and am having a good experience with iOS 13. Thanks.

IOS 13.2 is great on IPhone SE but I am having an issue in getting the status bar hope apple would fix it in the upcoming updates.

Woke up. I turn my iPhone on and was expecting my Siri male to talk but who show up? She did. Siri female. Unlucky 13 strike again. I will wait to see if he comes back. He is no longer in rotor but she is. I do believe in women right but this is bad. I had not even had my coffee. I do not want to hear from anyone about me calling unlucky 13 please. Where is iOS 14? I wish I had a time Machine to go to September 2020for iOS 14.

Check it out Victor talk about voiceover and applevis.com thants to Bella the cat asking me to email him about the issues we blind are facing with bugs. He also mention about Braille and considering using voiceover for a week to have some understanding about our problems. Thanks to AppleInsider and Bella the cat.

I noticed another one I had this morning, it's not accessibility related, when my phone got to 80 percent my charger's power totally disconnected, meaning that I had to physically disconnect and reconnect my charger again. What is the contact info for reporting non accessibility related bugs?

The number is 1-800-myApple, or 1-800-692-7753