Voiceover periodically crashes and restarts in iOS 16. Anybody know how to reproduce this?

By Unregistered User (not verified), 19 July, 2022

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I've noticed that Voiceover will sometimes crash and restart on my 13 pro max running the iOS 16 public beta. It'll stop responding for a second and then announce "screen curtain on" once it starts back up. I've had it happen mostly in the Twitter and Twitch apps so far, but I can't find a pattern. Has anybody experienced this and been able to figure out how to trigger the crash? I want to submit a bug report but have it be a little more specific than "Voiceover crashes sometimes". Good thing is that it's always restarted, so it's not experience-breaking at least.

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By Holger Fiallo on Friday, July 22, 2022 - 00:36

It happen in my iPad 9 gen when I use siri to restart. Needed a sighted person to turn VO. Siri did not turn it on niether the tripple click in the home button. Nuts.

By Siobhan on Friday, July 22, 2022 - 00:36

I am running the stable version of IOS and it can happen there also. It does also on mac so go figure.

By Vsevolod Popov on Friday, July 22, 2022 - 00:36

Hi all. I am using my iPhone 13 on iOS 16 Beta 3. I also experience small crashes as you mention, but also I experience huge crashes when you swipe and then VoiceOver is often silent for a really long period of time. Siri and triple click of side button don't restart it, so the only thing I can do is to use the hard reset to make VoiceOver running again. Maybe that happens also because I am using my phone on more than one language, who knows, but I didn't figure out the pattern of bugs appearance.

By wiljames on Friday, July 22, 2022 - 00:36

There is no way to tell of a pattern that makes VoiceOver crash. I would say the best way to handle this is to turn on Enhanced Beta Feedback. You get there by going to settings > Privacy and Security > Enhanced Beta Feedback. By default, it is turned off. Double tap that to turn it on.