Apple Releases iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 With Exposure Notification API and Face Mask Detection for Face ID

Hi,

The end dictation sound for dictation and siri can once again be herd on internal speakers.

Nothing seems to have changed after the update. No new errors.
I noticed that in the last whatsapp update, voiceover won't speak the words / characters you type. I didn't notice that in any other app, thus I'm guessing it is something with Whatsapp. Has anyone experienced something similar?

Pretty much what the title says, this bug was also fixed.
The audio destination option also no longer appears with Air-pods connected, previously this was a bug and the option was incorrectly present but did nothing.

After updating, I tried searching to find if any app or something is installed to see what will it do regarding the covid-19, but can not find any. any ideas?

Does anyone know if you can disable them notifying you if you've been in contact with an infected person? I don't want them tracking me!

As I do not want to be tracked, I am going to safely stay at 13.4.

for anyone interested, here's how to disable covid19 exposure tracking on IOS 13.5 according to
macrumors:
Open the Settings app.
Scroll down and tap on Privacy.
Tap on Health.
Tap on COVID-19 Exposure Notifications.
Tap the toggle to turn the feature off.

For the COVID-19 exposure notification API to work, you will need to download an app from a public health authority in addition to having iOS 13.5 installed. It is my understanding that a number of countries and several US states are currently testing apps that will work with this feature, but none have been released as of yet.

You can view more information by going to Settings > Privacy > Health > COVID-19 logging, but I don't believe the functionality can be turned on until an app that takes advantage of it has been installed.

HTH

Smart invert colours still not invert many website if dark mode is enabled in this new update. Really disappointing.

Because both Google and Apple are concerned about privacy, the tracking option for the apps that will eventually work with iOS 13.5 is off by default.
so, you do not have to opt out, you have to opt in.
So, upgrading to 13.5 will not open you to tracking unless you want to be tracked. Also, that won't even be an option until apps are released to use this feature. As for knowing when such an app is released, I suspect you would have to be hiding under a rock not to hear about it when apps are released.

I downloaded a covid tracking app and the apple covid 19 and sign in and still does not work with tracking on privacy. Can not turn it on.They do not even suggest an app to use. There are many. The one I got is covid 19 tracking.

I have tried in mail, messages, and notes to type on an external keyboard. I usually keep my software keyboards set to speak letters, and my hardware keyboards to speak nothing. This works fine in Messages and Notes, but mail speaks letters, and sometimes will even throw in a phonetic to make the process even more distracting. I've tried two different keyboards with the same result.

Thank you so much for the article applevis, you are all so amazing

hi
I just updated my iPhone.. and went into settings>privacy>health> covid 19 exposure login.
when I tapped on it, it said "covid 19 exposure login/notification is not available in your region."
I'm from India.
and we already have an app named arogya setu which notifies us when we come in contact with someone who's positive.
does this mean that this feature is not in this region? if yes, then I'm disappointed.

Reading through these comments, I think there's some misunderstanding about these new features.

FaceID doesn't unlock your phone if you're wearing a mask. It's just quicker to bring up the keypad to enter your PIN when it recognizes that you're wearing a mask.

And all that Apple included in this release regarding Covid19 tracing is an API. Health organizations need to develop the apps to utilize this API. The apps that folks are finding in the app store now are not apps that were developed using this API. That's why they don't seem to work with it.

Here's an article that explains this in clearer terms.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21265019/apple-ios-13-5-out-now-unlock-iphone-face-mask-id-exposure-notification-covid-19

Thank you AppleVis for your informative article as always.
AppleVis has been my go-to destination for keeping track of iOS 13 developments, especially where accessibility is concerned.
Thanks to the presence of very few bugs and no bugs introduced in this version, I finally updated to iOS 13 last night and I'm very glad I did.
I wanted to upgrade in preparation for when the apps are developed which use the exposure notification API but it is a bonus that some of the accessibility bugs have been resolved too.
Unfortunately, I cannot comment on Smart Invert as I have no useful vision so purely rely on VoiceOver functionality but I hope that that is fixed in the very near future so that iOS 13 is fully accessible to everyone regardless of sight level.

I updated both my ipod touch 7th gen and iphone 8 to 13.5 last night. Update went really well. I'm so glad that voiceover no longer says text field when there really wasn't one.
For those worried about the contact tracing being on all the time, it's not. It's off by default and can't be turned on unless you have an app installed that makes use of it

I installed this update yesterday, and over all, I am not noticing any significant differences, good or bad. When I open an email message to read, it still says "actions available" after every single line of the message. That seems rather silly since, at least so far as I know, most email messages should be just a read only text field. I really hope that this behavior is eliminated when iOS 14 is released. Sure, it's a very minor annoyance in the grand scheme of life, but it's hard to comprehend how that kind of bug could have been introduced in the first place.

Just to reiterate, as the misunderstanding still appears to be continuing in some folk: the track and trace functionality will not work unles your country or state has chosen to use the apple/Google model for its track and trace system. India, the UK, France are three notable countries that, for the moment at least, are not planning to use the Apple/Google API, though in the UK our app is still in the pilot stage so it's possible that could change. So that means that if, say, you're French you're going to get nothing out of this new feature except when you travel abroad to a country that uses it. Mind you, Monsieur Macron has said the French will be able to go on their sacrosanct summer holidays in August, so it might still come in handy. In the UK the NHS has declined to use the Apple API because, as I understand it, the API doesn't share the right sort of information to allow our test, track and trace model to be effective the way it's been set up. Rightly or wrongly, the NHS believes Apple and Google have got the balance wrong in favour of privacy.

Heard on the UK RNIB Tech Talk podcast, that Steve, had some odd voice issues with VoiceOver, switching voices periodically on his new iPhone SE 2020 edition. Didn't think much about it until I from a student today who is having what she describes as being similar, although it seems the voices switch much more frequently. Steven seem to suggest, it cleared itself up after a few days, after perhaps downloading some new voice package updates or something. On older iPhones like the 6s and 7 I've see the voices get completely corrupted, such that neither Siri or VoiceOver works, until you redownload oneof the voices. This later problem I've seen several times, while the switching thing I haven't seen in person yet.

Hi, I have had problems when writing emails and submitting web forms. VoiceOver quite often was silent when I tried to read the editable text word by word or character by character.
Moreover, when I dictated text with my phone in silent mode off, the VoiceOver speech sometimes stopped when it was about to speak out the inserted text.
It seems like both of these bugs have been fixed. My phone is an iPhone 6S, and I use a Swedish voice.