Description
The new predictive text feature in iOS 17 provides recommended words inline as you type using the onscreen keyboard. There are verbosity settings that allow VoiceOver users to control what happens when predictive text appears and when predictive text feedback is entered.
However, some users report that these verbosity settings are not being applied consistently across different apps. When the "predictive text" verbosity setting is set to speak recommendations, some VoiceOver users report that recommendations are silent in certain apps, even though they expect them to be spoken.
Conversely, other users have found that with the "predictive text" setting configured to not speak recommendations, VoiceOver will still read out the recommendations in some apps like Mail.
Steps to reproduce
- Enable VoiceOver.
- Enable predictive text in the keyboard settings.
- In VoiceOver settings, check the "current verbosity settings for predictive text.
- Open different apps like Mail, Messages, Notes and observe whether predictive text recommendations are spoken by VoiceOver or not.
- In VoiceOver settings, change the "verbosity settings for predictive text.
- Open different apps like Mail, Messages, Notes and observe whether predictive text recommendations are spoken by VoiceOver or not.
- The behaviour will be inconsistent, with some apps speaking predictive text recommendations when that setting is disabled and vice versa.
Expected results:
The "predictive text" verbosity setting should consistently apply across all apps - predictive text should only be spoken aloud when that setting is enabled.
Actual results:
The verbosity settings do not reliably control predictive text feedback across different apps for VoiceOver users.