iOS 27 and iPadOS 27: A Summary of VoiceOver and Braille Issues and Improvements

Mine always says this, even though I have my punctuation set to none. And it doesn’t regardless of what Voice I use. I am still on iOS 26.6.2. But this is kind of always happened since I’ve had iPhones so it’s like the punctuation settings aren’t really being honored. I’m not sure if we’re talking about the same thing but I hope we are.

Hello, just wondering if anyone has encountered this issue after upgrading, when I use my wired apple air buds with the USBC connection the volume of everything is much lower then it was in IOS 26. When trying with my air pods the volume is like it should be. Has anyone ran into this issue or knows of anyway to fix it, thinking of downgrading back to IOS 26 since its not the biggest deal breaker but it is off from how it should sound.

Which is nice. Hold on a few weeks and it should be fine. At least we know that fixes are coming down the road. I guess we have to have our own new launch day for OS, only when 27.1 comes out can we really be confident it's going to be the polished OS we pay for.

I guess accessibility problems take less priority than issues for the greater user base.

What device are you using with your wired USB-C EarPods? And is it happening with VoiceOver speech or is it everything in any audio volume? Thanks. Wanna check before I update my iPhone 15. :-)

I see this in my iPad 9. Started with iOS 27. Also using my airpod pro 2 with the new firmware VO does not read notification. Get the sound when you get one but VO does not do anything.

I tried a beta of this, and the audio profile problem was quite disturbing, let alone the lag with Air Pods Pro 2. Plus, no Siri AI in the European union. So...am quite scheptical

Most of these issues are sorted with IOS 27.2. I'd actually suggest either waiting, or upgrading to the developer beta.

Does it matter what devices anybody is on while they’re experiencing VoiceOver audio quality issues on their internal speakers? I guess I’m wondering if it matters if it’s an older visor if it’s newer devices or if it’s just across the world of iOS 27? Thanks. My speech volume is at 100 100% for both of my devices. That’s why I’m asking.

I think it’s across most devices. I’m getting it with my iPhone 15 Pro but honestly, it seems to be improving, either that or I’m just getting used to it. It really doesn’t bother me to be honest.

OK, thanks. That’s good to know. It’s kind of like one of the things I was hesitant to update for. Yeah I haven’t updated either of my devices yet. I mean I’ll probably update my secondary device first when I do update so yeah most likely wait for a point one release though. I think the only update I’m gonna do right now is the 26.7 release.

I thought it was only affecting applevis

iOS 27.2 is coming out. Apple went from iOS 27 to 27.2.

OK, that’s cool. I guess that’s the one I’ll be waiting for them. :-) Hopefully the issue with wired EarPods will be fixed too. Because I do use those enough that would be really annoying if there was audio issues with both.

Hey, I’m on an iPhone SE 2022 secondary and an iPhone 15 primary. So maybe this is just an overall issue with all of iOS 27? Cool. That means you’ve got the lightning headphones last year using the EarPods. I mean AirPods. I don’t have AirPods. Thanks.

16 pro max and iOS 27. Using current version of the firmware for airpods. When using it, Siri does not read notification, I get the sound that I got a notification and whatever I am listening stop and nothing happens. Anyone is having issues? Thanks.

I am dumbfounded that there is no mention on the list of serious bugs about that all audio routing just stops randomly when using Air Pods. This often happens after using dictation or after hanging up an audio call, but also while just switching apps or flicking around the screen. It is completely maddening to me. It will sometimes fix itself in 5 to 30 seconds or you can pull out your air pods and reconnect. I know it's not just me since they already had an open ticket with my symptoms when I called Apple Accessibility Support. I urge everyone to call and offer up your story to them too and add your voice if you are experiencing the same issue.

There is nothing more serious to me than the sudden loss of all audio feedback from my phone. I absolutely regret updating.

Hi everyone. I have upgraded and encountered a strange issue. I usually use the standard Daniel voice at a rate of 85 percent, but after the upgrade my phone switched to the enhanced Daniel voice at about 50 percent. Regardless of what I did to try and resolve this - toggling VO, rebooting the phone, it remained stuck. If I tried to switch Voice over to a different voice, Voice Over would say the name of the different voice, but wouldn't actually switch to that voice. In the end, I couldn't carry on with the wrong voice and slow speech rate, so I used the option in Voice Over settings to reset all Voice Over settings. That did resolve the issue, but obviously I had to reconfigure Voice Over from scratch with all the settings I use. I don't think I have done that for a long time, if at all. It has taken quite a while to get things up and running with Voice Over and some people may struggle to do this if they have the same issue. I would suggest to anyone thinking of upgrading that they at least put aside some time to do the upgrade in case this happens to them.

I have also noticed the different voice profile and like most people on here I prefer how it was before IoS27, but it is manageable for me for now and it is good to see it has been changed in the developer beta.

Overall I am glad I upgraded for the new features, but just wanted to mention the Voice Over settings issue I experienced.

Thanks to the Applevis team and everyone on here for all of the useful updates and comments.

You’re not the only one having the issue with your voice is getting stuck on a certain one. I think it came up earlier in this post as well that somebody else was having the same issue where they were trying to switch your voices and it would play the one that they wanted in the sample but then it wouldn’t select it or something so yeah unfortunately that is so kind of weird issue. Hopefully that’s going to get fixed with the file release for the 27.2. I’m glad you were able to get it fixed by resetting the voiceover settings. That feature has saved me from a lot of weird voice things. I’m glad that they finally put that in iOS.

My iPhone 16 updated to 27 when I didn't intend it to, and I'm very glad that so far I don't seem to be getting any of the bugs! It's interesting how some users get them and some users don't, and I'm not sure why that is or how to control it. I'm really sorry to everyone who does have the bugs though, and I'm honestly not trying to show off that I don't have them.

Good luck and don't count your chickens yet. Bugs tend to come out when you do not want.

Everything looks good on here so far with my iPhone SE 2022 running iOS 26.7. Just wanted to come on here and say that just in case anybody hasn’t done that update yet. It’s just a security update but sometimes weird stuff happens with those updates too so you just never know so I just figured I would come on here and let people know that this one’s pretty good. Lucky to anybody who hasn’t had any iOS 27 bugs. That’s pretty awesome. I think the reason that some people get a bunch of bugs and some people don’t is literally a lot to do with either how they’re using their phones or the configurations that are set up. Software on behaves differently in different configurations it seems like. That’s what I’m getting from the things that I’ve ever done here. I’m not 100% sure on that but that’s what I’m guessing based on things that I’ve right here.

I updated to IOS 27 a few days ago. When I use the rotor on the braille display, it doesn't work. I have to turn the speech on to do so. How do I get it to work on both?

Also, when I play Dice World, whenever I roll the dice, if I have the speech on, it will say the numbers I roll. But, not on the braille display. How do I fix this? it just started doing these two things this morning, September 19. I use an iPhone 16 Pro Max with VoiceOver, and a BI20X braille display.

Everything‘s good on my iPhone 15. Also was iOS 26.7. Just wanted to say that in case anybody needed to update a 15 and hadn’t had a chance yet or didn’t want to or whatever. :-)

1. while using indian english siri voice1 it reads some jibberish instead of numbers.
2. for indian language telugu no matter which voice you choose, content will be read in default voice for teleugu called geetha.
3. in certain apps, content does not scroll automatically after reaching to the end of current screen.

but a very annoying bug where we cannot type using onscreen keyboard with indian english siri voices is fixed.

I think I may have seen something similar a couple of days ago on my iPhone SE 2022. I was using Veena as my voice voice and I was using the enhanced variant. I want to type something with a regular on screen keyboard and she was only speaking part of the letter so instead of saying the full letter A was almost like she was saying part of the letter and then cutting out speech, but the letter was definitely entered. This happened for every letter that I typed with that voice. That was on 26.6.2 so that was Friday night I think when I noticed that. I’m not sure if that’s quite the same issue, but there’s definitely something going on with the indeed English voice for sure. I guess I would have to keep reporting it to Apple Accessibility. There’s definitely bugged that I like Voice specific for sure.

Sorry. I wasn’t sure where else to put this. :-) That’s the only reason it was on here. And I really don’t know how to make a new topics or anything otherwise I would’ve done that. :-)

Things seem to be a lot more stable on my new 18 pro vs. my old 15 pro. I was so excited to try ios27 that I put it on the old 15 pro knowing I was switching friday and that was quite unstable but I'm getting fewer of the weirdnesses with my 18 pro.

Oh wow, that’s interesting. Good to know. I guess maybe the iOS 27 maybe does run a bit differently on older devices. Thanks for the info.

Compared to some out here, I've been relatively lucky with iOS 27. However, I have 1 app which is completely unuseable, and at least one more that definitely isn't working as expected. In the case of Word Voyance, I actually deleted and redownloaded the app, just in case that might fix something. Sadly, it didn't. I'm not necessarily opposed to resetting my voiceover settings, but resetting my phone as new is a step further than I'm comfortable with, especially since I've got an e-sim. I remember setting up this iphone 16 in January of 2025. Suffice it to say that it was a major pain, and there are a few apps I can't risk losing access to, even if only temporarily. So, I hope that this upcoming 27.2, or whatever it's going to be called, sorts out some of these issues. I'm planning to call Apple Accessibility about the word voyance issue. A lot of VO users are having the same issues I am, but unfortunately, the developer has been unable to reproduce the issue on his end up to this point. I get the whole planned obsolesence thing, but the iphone 16 was supposedly designed for Apple Intelligence, so there's no way it should be having issues to the point that I can only regain full functionality by getting a new phone.

Suggest waiting for iOS 27.2. It looks like it fix many bugs. iOS 27 is working well for me, bug with notification not clearing.

Apologies if this has already been asked, I don’t want to go through 144 comments.
Throughout all of iOS 26, there has been a bug with Safari where the content of the webpage loads, but there is still the website loading sound and the haptic feedback. I was wondering if this was fixed on iOS 27?

Another regression I’ve noticed is that VoiceOver now seems to be classifying various things as different languages far too aggressively.

I was reading an email this morning and VoiceOver read the entire thing using a French male voice, despite the email being in English. When I turned Detect Languages off, it read the email normally in English. However, when I selected text from that same email, VoiceOver announced the selected text using a female French voice.

This is also noticeable when typing characters such as α and β. Previously, in iOS 26, VoiceOver would simply announce their English names — “alpha”, “beta”, etc. — even with Detect Languages enabled. In iOS 27, VoiceOver instead switches to a female Greek voice and reads them extremely slowly.

As a result, I’ve now turned Detect Languages off entirely. Unfortunately, this causes another problem: when I type characters such as α and β, VoiceOver simply announces “unspeakable Greek text”.

Now, although “unspeakable Greek text” sounds very cool and would be fantastic in a fantasy novel, it’s rather less useful when it’s my screen reader.

I’ve filed feedback with Apple. Feedback number: FB24871286

I think this is a slightly different situation but in iOS 26.7 and even all the way before whatever detect language is ever came available, I feel like Voice doesn’t really honor our setting. I can have that setting off and still hear Text other languages. I use my phone only in English, but I feel like the setting is never really honored. Voiceover behave the same way regardless of whether the setting is honor often in my cases. So it’s still tries to speak. Text another language, even if the feature is off so the sudden just seems to never really be honored. And Then this is kind of happened since I’ve had an iPhone I guess because I don’t think that ever really worked properly. So right now like I just leave it on because turning it off really doesn’t change the setting at all.

Hey, I’ve seen the same issue with using Karen enhanced and Karen premium. I’ve actually seen it on this website before too. So instead of reading that something has 124 comments as like a whole number of 124 She’ll separate the digits and say that it’s 124 comments. If you use regular care, this doesn’t occur at all. I have no idea why there’s differences in different variance even within one Voice but they’re definitely is. It’s almost like enhanced voices and premium voices are trying to be smarter and then they don’t read things in proper context. I’m not sure why that would matter cause it’s literally just a file size difference but there’s definitely a difference in how they are reading things. The same thing happens with abbreviations being expanded and things like that. It definitely occurs more with premium and enhanced choices. I think it’s just a synthesize is trying to be too smart or Something.

16 pro max, Airpod pro 2. Firmware is current for Airpod and current iOS 27. When using Airpods, notification is not read by Siri, Get the sound that tells you you got a notification but nothing happens. Anyone is having this issue? Thanks.