VO doesn't pronounce characters when typing on Apple Magic Keyboard

Hi Gabriela,

I’m not sure as to why voiceover isn’t reading the characters and words when typing on your Magic Keyboard. Since using my keyboard since May 2023, I’ve had no problems with hearing the typing feedback, but I think I can help you. There are a couple ways of checking if a setting within voiceover has been changed. However, I have a question to ask myself. When you are not using your Magic Keyboard, can you hear typing feedback by tapping the letters on the screen?

Ok, cool. I would first try forgetting the device in your Bluetooth settings, since it is primarily related to the keyboard itself.

1. Go to settings > Bluetooth
2. Tap or swipe down when navigating to the Magic Keyboard connection
3. Double tap on forget device
4. Turn Magic Keyboard off, then back on to reconnect and pair to your device

See if that resets it. If not, here is another method.

1. Go to settings > accessibility > voiceover > typing
2. Then go down to typing feedback
3. Here, look for a heading that says hardware keyboards and play with the settings
4. Try selecting no feedback, then characters only, then words only, and lastly characters and words

When you change these settings, go to a place where you can type in text and see if it changes. It should be able to read both words and characters afterwards, but in the event that it doesn’t work, there may be a third method to fix this issue. However, let me know if these two methods don’t work or if you already tried them before.

Really hope this works!🙏

I’m so glad that the second method worked. Normally it shouldn’t have done that, especially when voiceover was already reading both characters and words when typing on the screen, but I’m glad I could be of some help. :-)