Punctuation Bug in iOS 26.2

By Ellie, 25 January, 2026

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi all,
It took me a long time to update to iOS 26.2 but I finally did it yesterday. I have encountered a bug that makes my phone very frustrating to use.

My VoiceOver is reading all punctuation, even when I have gone into Verbosity setting and double-checked that my normal level, 'some', is selected. Even when I change it to 'none', the issue has not resolved itself. I have tried changing through the rotar, through settings, restarting my phone and nothing has worked.

Has anyone encountered this or knows a fix? It is extremely frustrating to use my phone at this point as every single punctuation mark, including commas and full stops, are read out.

I use an iPhone 14.

Thank you!

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By Ash Rein on Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 17:47

Not going through it personally, but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. I would say reset your voiceover settings, and see what happens.

By Mark Carter on Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 17:52

Going to Accessibility VoiceOver and then selecting to reset VoiceOver settings solve the issue. I think it’s some corruption in the settings after the upgrade. It’s annoying because you need to reconfigure your VoiceOver, but it does solve the problem.

By Ellie on Sunday, January 25, 2026 - 17:56

Thanks all! It's worked; now I have to go back and reconfigure, but at least all the punctuation isn't reading out constantly.

Thanks again!

By Singer Girl on Monday, January 26, 2026 - 08:25

I think it’s great that they finally added that as a feature that you can reset just the VoiceOver settings. That’s not a lot of weird voice things for me with this update as well. I’m glad this worked for you.

By Brian on Monday, January 26, 2026 - 14:07

Absolutely agree that it is an awesome feature. And it's about time too, considering we've been able to do this in macOS for years now...

By Singer Girl on Monday, January 26, 2026 - 18:16

Oh wow, I had no idea you guys could do that on a Mac for years. I’ve never had a Mac. Well it’s about time they started putting more of the features from a Mac into the iOS. That’s the reason that we got all the voices that we got to so that we could have the same voices on iOS that we have a max. At least that was according to somebody who was beta testing back when we had iOS 16 the new voices that we got. Yeah, resetting voiceover settings because definitely been a great feature for sure.

By Kerry Fielding on Friday, January 30, 2026 - 08:17

I had exactly this book and I didn't need to reset VoiceOver settings though. I just played around with the rotor for awhile and then it seemed to disappear. I also changed my punctuation setting to none and had no difference. It took me just messing around with rotor for the bog to disappear. The other thing that happened to me after that was that my VoiceOver settings in terms of speed would do absolutely nothing. I have ended up resetting all my VoiceOver settings just now and things are back to normal, but I think I'm going to have to do a lot of fine-tuning which is a pain. Glad it wasn't just me.