Voiceover sensivity in watchOS 9.2

By Karina Velazquez, 19 December, 2022

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watchOS and Apple Watch Apps

Hi there:

Is it just me or after updating my apple watch series 7 to watchOS 9.2 the sensitiveness of voiceover is a real mess.

I used to have the one-hand gestures active for those times I can’t press my apple watch with my second hand, but since I updated, the watch keeps speaking out loud and moving the voiceover focus every time I rase my hand, and much worse, while I was training every time I touched the screen the focus moved all around, and therefore I had to pause my exercise like 5 times; so I decided to turn off those gestures, but more continues happening.

Also now when I use the two fingers gesture on screen to lower or increase the volume of voiceover, while I’m moving down or up, at the middle of the movement, the focus moves and voiceover takes it as a double tap, so I cant adjust the volume to the exact point that I wanted to, and nothing of this happened before watchos 9.2.

Please tell me if I’m not the only one in order to put this to apple’s accessibility team.

Regards.

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By Dizno on Thursday, December 22, 2022 - 00:51

I noticed it when I’m doing the work out if I want to go check my stats.
It doesn’t say anything when I touch the screen and when I swipe it goes to page 3, so I have to go back up to page 2 and it takes many tries before I finally get it to read part of my stat and then I can swipe left to right?
That is a real pain and then there’s a lot of other quirks with the OS that I’m not happy with either.

By KE7ZUM on Thursday, December 22, 2022 - 00:51

I've been using watch os 9 and have had no focus issues, I'm on a watch 7 I think. so far so good, focus stays where it should be, etcetera.