iOS/iPadOS 27 Beta 5 Megathread

"Just updated to iOS 27 Beta 5. The crackling sound with Eloquence has been significantly fixed, which is great! However, the lack of bass when using VoiceOver is still persisting. I suspect this might be due to the separate volume controls for ringtones, alarms, and notifications in Settings. I still haven't found a way to bring the bass back yet. Anyone else experiencing this?"

Yes, that is sounding better here now also.

--Pete

downloading iOS 27 beta 5 now. excited to see it and find out the fixes for myself. it's great cracklling has been fixt!

Have they fixed the speech choppyness?

I'm not installing any of the betas, just curious what you mean with the lack of base.

wi_fi in the stastatus bar reads fine, the date is still not being read correctly, it just says august 10th, not Monday august 10th

Everything's good over here, but same as the first 4 betas, VoiceOver still sounds like it's missing a lot of its low end.
@Alicia Krage: Make a phone call, or go into an app where VoiceOver seems to lose a lot of its low end. Screen recording with the microphone on still does this if I'm not mistaken.
It'll sound like it's coming through a drive through box, if that makes any sense.
Now, take out the low quality of it. that's what VoiceOver sounds like, on average, right now.

You guys need to try Live Recognition, Scenes. Focus on a subject, human, dog, whatever. As the subject moves, VoiceOver tells you what is going on.

For example, I focused on Denise, my wife. She was sitting at the table petting the dog, using her phone, drinking a drink. Each time she did a different movement, VoiceOver told me what it was. It even told me when she propped her head on her hand. I focused the camera on our 14 year old Golden Retriever Penny. VoiceOver told me how she was positioned, which way she was facing, and what she was doing, standing or sitting. I think this outdid the smart glasses!

Tomorrow, I will try this while waiting for the bus. I am curious to see how it will do when waiting for a ride. If this can be used when waiting for an Uber or Lyft, this is a game changer for sure!

Try opening any book in the standard Books app at the beginning of any chapter - the first page is read correctly, but when you move to the next page, VoiceOver continues to read the text of the first page of this chapter, this happens with any page until the beginning of a new chapter. Visually, the text obviously changes, this can be checked if you use the VoiceOver screen recognition function, or any other service that provides similar functionality. This error occurred starting from the very first beta of iOS 27, at the same time I reported it, literally a few days later a message appeared in the report status that more than 10 users had discovered a similar problem, but now there are 4 new beta versions, and one of the standard apps continues to be completely unusable with VoiceOver.

Hi.
Picked up on a bug am unable to clear all the notifications in the notifications centre.
Has anyone else noticed this bug?

Does messing with the equalizer found in the voice settings help?

I've triet it, but got nothing.

I am now running the beta of iOS 27. This is my first time testing it. I can definitely notice the way the voiceover sounds. It does sound a little bit different. It sounds like when you were on a FaceTime call and you show your screen. However, when my friend did a screen recording of the new image features in developer beta one, the voiceover voice didn't sound different. It just sounded like it usually does. I wonder if it's some kind of audio processing thing that is going on internally that can be causing voiceover to sound strange.

I also would like to warn you that when I updated, the accessibility shortcut was turned off, so I had to turn on accessibility shortcut again. It did work on the hello screen, letting me know that the update was completed successfully. Also, when I joined the waitlist for Siri AI, I was approved within two seconds of hitting the join waitlist button, which is crazy.

why is it that we as blind people have more issues than sighted? accessibility team seems not much good nowadays. i staying on 26 have no intention to go to 27. just sounds shockingly bad. if sighted people had this problem with sound would have been fixed by now.