Hello friends, how are you all?
I noticed something weird. On my iPhone 16 Pro, I can use TiK ToK normally, whether or not VoiceOver is enabled. However, on the iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 6s, I realised that TikTok only works well, that is, it only plays videos properly if VoiceOver has been disabled. It seems that the application crashes completely while VoiceOver is running, something I did not notice on the latest iPhone.
Then I wonder: why does this happen? Is this normal? I hope to hear your opinion soon.
Hugs,
Ricardo Brandão
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pause button
I'm not sure if it has something to do with a new update, but when you scroll to the next video with VoiceOver on, it seems to default to pausing the video. If you swipe right a couple times there will be a pause button you can press to get the audio back. Maybe this is a setting that can be adjusted? I'm not sure, honestly I usually watch videos with VoiceOver off anyways, since I like being able to tap once in the center to pause and double tap the center to like videos
RE: pause button
Impressive! It worked exactly as you described! I'm sure this didn't happen before. I checked the settings and there's nothing we can do for now, but wait for the next update, and use the application without VoiceOver for now for better enjoyment
Don't know if this still works, but...
It used to be that you could also swipe up or down with one finger to change the video currently playing. Without VoiceOver, of course. 😇
still works
Yup, swiping up or down with one finger to switch videos still works too! Sorry, I just neglected to include that part in my last comment.
usable for the most part
TikTok, for the most part, is usable with VoiceOver.
At the time of writing, I have 20 unread messages in my inbox, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to deal with them. The whole inbox section of TikTok is a huge mess.
That said, most of the other areas work reasonably well. You can read comments now, which was broken in earlier versions, so they seem to have fixed that.
If all you want to do is scroll through videos, I usually just keep VoiceOver off and swipe up with one finger to move to the next video. I still have not figured out how to rewind videos, though. That seems to be broken with VoiceOver.
One useful trick: if you hold somewhere along the left-hand side while a video is playing, the video speeds up. That is very handy for those videos where people speak really slowly or take forever to get to the point. You know the ones: they take five minutes to say something, and even then they do not get to the point because the actual point is apparently in the next video. Those are the videos I would vote down on principle for wasting people’s time.
So yes, TikTok is usable overall, apart from the issues I mentioned above.
It's still strange.
I just ran the test again, and on my iPhone 16 Pro, I can keep VoiceOver active and still scroll through videos normally using the three-finger swipe up or down gesture, whereas it doesn't work well on the other iPhones. The funny thing is that they all run the same iOS version—except for the iPhone 6s, which doesn't support iOS 26—and the TikTok version is the latest on all of them. I don't recall changing any settings that would have caused this. Anyway, it’s inexplicable…
Re: It's still strange.
It might be that TikTok doesn't work well on old iPhones, especially something as old as an iPhone 6S.
I think it works well; it just doesn't play nice with VoiceOver.
TikTok only behaves strangely when VoiceOver is active. And this also happens on the iPhone 13 mini, which runs the latest stable version of iOS and has a much more capable processor, even though it isn't that new.
TikTok
VoiceOver doesn’t announce the buttons during live streams. I can’t access options like typing a message or sending a gift because the buttons aren’t labeled. This is a serious accessibility issue for blind users.