iOS 6: Bug List

Hi, I called into accessibility about this to let them know as well, but is anyone else aware of this? I can't really tell what causes it, but alerts like shaking the phone to undo typing or similar alerts of that nature are sometimes not read by vo. The only way I've managed to fix it is by rebooting the device, but it seems to continue to happen at random where it stops reading alerts automaticly. I can tap to find it however, but alerts like shaking the phone kind of have to be read so you're not shaking the device to death. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this bug so I could update Apple on this? Or am I the lonely one with this bug?

I haven't tried it with braille yet, but I turned off speech and did the rotor gesture. Just like always, speech came back on. Granted I can't see when you would use this gesture with speech off, but I suppose you might if you were moving around the screen with a finger anyway. Also, lifting a finger in touch typing mode now works for all buttons except the one to action the text, such as enter or search; that button must still be double tapped. I can't decide if I like it that way, though, so you are sure you are ready to go when you have to split tap instead of just lifting a finger.

This isn't new. But it still irritates me. The volume of VO is not saved when VO is turned off and then on again either by a gesture, or by rebooting the device. If you use the rotor to enable VO volume changing, it doesn't move in consistent steps. . If starting from the default, swiping down changes the volume in the following order of percentages. 75 70 65 55 50 45 35 25 20 15 10 5 1 Swiping up goes consistently in 5 percent increments.

Well, I also did the deed and ran into a strange problem when finishing off the update. The phone would not accept my Apple store password which I could enter in my sleep; I was actually awake (VBG) and tried three times. When I performed the same task using itunes after skipping the phone process, it was accepted as expected. The maps program on first poke seems truly awesome though I wouldn't mind having access to some documentation, and in fact all docs for IOS 6. If this is possible to get on the IPhone, I ain't smart enough to find out how or where. Help on this will get some a remembrance in my will. Ande I have to say it like so many others, this site and all the gang are way far beyond awesome!

I have reported that to Apple, but if we have a lot reports the engineers could fix it faster. On IPhone 3gs, and 4, when you turn on the tracing with direction, it crashes and can not be usable. Voiceover can't tell you the name of the street where you are or the street that you'¡re going to cross

If you have VoiceOver's language set to anything other than the default, and shut down then restart voiceOver, the language is reset back to the default. This also happens if VO crashes.

Hello, I wish I knew about this bug sooner, but there is a bug not many people are aware of on iOS 6. If you tap the screen with three fingers, then with one finger, VoiceOver's speech will be turned off. Apparently VoiceOver thins your tapping twice with three fingers. Just wanted to notify people about this.

Since we're all talking about bugs, don't forget to file radars. I wrote a short comment awhile back about radar best practices: http://www.applevis.com/blog/voiceover-features-ios-6-pronunciation-editor#comment-2500 If you have radars for anything you've posted about, putting them here would make it easier for people to file dupes and get them fixed sooner.

Hi all. I had to restart my phone once since the upgrade. I find this always happens after an upgrade at least once. So maybe it would be good practice to reboot your phone yourself after the install process. Anyway it took forever for things to come up. When the lock screen came up things didn't speak good at all. Once I got out of the locked screen though and the phone finished its rebooting things were fine. So not sure this is a bug so much as a slow phone due to the model. I have not experienced any of the wifi issues. Or any of the other things actually that have been mentioned here. But I don't email much and don't have alerts coming in all the time. So that could just be because I don't use the features. I do note however that music plays a bit slow on my king od dragon pass app. And it breaks up. Again however this could be because of a memory issue. The iphone 3gs has really been outdated now for a while and I am surprised they even made this update for the 3gs as well as the newer models. Except for the things mentioned here. Really all in all things work faster in this software update. And I am extremely pleased. But for if there are still 3gs users out there. Just be aware that this update will take a bit to install. And some apps may behave slightly differently in loading and such. But again I think this is more a hardware issue than a software. the iphone 3gs is old. And I have a 8 gig model so I don't have much room on it anyway. enough for me up to now. But things are changing. I can't wait till december when I can upgrade. Have fun all.

Hi! I use my iPhone's built-in weather app most days, and, when I opened it this morning, after upgrading to IOS 6 last night my time, I discovered that, even though I only have three cities in that app, there were four pages of weather, and page 1 repeated itself on page 2: the old pages 2 and 3 became pages 3 and 4 respectively. However, when I went into Edit Cities, there were only three places listed there, as normal. I assume this repetition of a weather page must be a bug, as I can't see any reason why one page in the weather app should show up twice otherwise. My iPhone is a 32-gig 4S, but I don't suppose that makes any difference.

Hi guys, I received photos via MMS yesterday, so I did the normal click on it and wanted to click on the action button to save them, well, after clicking on the photo as I did before iOS 6, nothing was spoken and the phone didn't talk, so I couldn't get to the button to save the photos and to get out of messages, had to hit home the double tap it and close it from the app switcher, so if I receive photos, click on them messages freezes, anyone else have this problem? thanks oh I am using an iPhone 4S and now iOS 6, this problem was not existant yesterday before the update to iOS 6. I'll keep playing around and figure out if there are more bugs.

Hi, I think what might be going on here is that IOS detects your current location. So for example if you had London in as a City for your weather updates, but are currently located in london you'll see it twice. One for the current local weather and one for the city you added manually. So all you need to do is remove your home location and let IOS detect it locally. Hope this helps,

For me, the two most noticeable bugs are the focus bug especially while navigating by headings in Safari and the crashing in maps. I already emailed these to accessibility@apple.com.

Hi. Just a note here. For the most part, I am loving the new software. I find it very responsive on the 4S. Obviously I haven't had time to play around with all of the features yet, but what I have done is very neat. One problem I have is that when pasting text between apps, if you interrupt the speech while it is reading text back after pasting and then try to use the rotor, you get no speech and have difficulty figuring out what setting the rotor is then adjusting. Most notably, I found this problem using Fleksy when copying text to then post into a text message. That wouldn't be the end of the world, however the edit rotor setting is not where it used to be, aka right after words when turning clockwise. Anyone else had this problem? Cheers....Scott

I've got this both on my iPad 3 and iPod Touch 4G. When using VO and Zoom together touch typing doesn't work. The key is selected but letting go doesn't type it in. I can manually select the standard typing mode and it works, but have to turn off zoom (double tap 3 fingers) and then turn VO completely off and on again (triple click home) to get touch typing working again. Starting Zoom up again shuts down touch typing again. I've worked with Zoom on most of the time so far so I don't know if this can happen with zoom off as well. Anyone else getting this issue? I'd be glad if someone could test this and verify that I don't have an issue with my devices.

I'm unable to label elements on my iPad 3. I can do it on the iPod Touch 4G. I can double tap 2 fingers and hold, the interface comes up. I enter a label, but it is not saved. The element retains it's former name. Old labels that I've made prier to updating to IOS 6 have disappeared as well.

I'm not sure if this is a game issue or a VoiceOver issue, but when I open a game such as King of Dragon Pass or Stemstumper, the game audio (background music) skips as VoiceOver begins to read an element of the screen. Has anyone else noticed this?

A bug I have found in the OS 6 update is typing with the Iphone keyboard. When filling information or trying to type a message, the keys will not speak, so I do not know exactly what key I am pressing. There is no voice only on the "more numbers" key and the "return" key.

First, one of the more crucial ones: I was eating out in a fancy place when someone called. Beforehand, I invoked the mute switch on phone, forgot DND was in the update, and had Voiceover speak rather loudly not only who was calling, but that she left a voicemail. This was stated more than once, along with other notifications. Problem was: I could do nothing to silence it. Screen wasn't functioning either. Not exactly a new issue aside from the frozen screen, but you'd think Apple would do something to address the inconsistency, right? Another possible bug anyone? How about the ringtone audio not ducking as it likely should as you use Voiceover to read the screen. I'm well aware you can use a volume button to mute the ringer, but everyone else might not. Besides that, there's the battery issues I was worried about. Anyone notice Airplay seems to take more energy to use? I must say it starts faster though, but that won't matter after I hit the 1% mark out in the field when I bring the tunes, and I'm forgetting I'm now stuck with a seemingly more power-hungry version . Another bug unrelated to Voiceover: Weather had me in the wrong location from the notification center. It fixed itself after 20 minutes though. On an iPhone 4.

There's a program I like to use called monolith loops. It's probably my favorite app on the iPhone, but I just haven't submitted it to review. Anyway, some of the button labels have disappeared, anticancer relabel them. Also, the focus jumps from place to place. For example, while I was just composing this message, I swiped from the right from name to subject, but before it could complete the word subject, it jumped over to Twitter. Then, when I clicked on that comment edit text fields, it wouldn't begin editing. I had to swipe the screens over so that it was sunscreen one of five. I also find that it's a bit sluggish, but I think That's just a memory issue. I also think the audio games music and audio skipping is also a memory issue. Try rebooting. If this problem persists, you might use voice overs compact voices until it's resolved. I'm also having voiceover crashes and restarts with maps. It occurs, like other poster said, when you're trying to track streets. It's not too much of an inconvenience, but I can tell they just packed too many good features in the iOS six! I can't wait to get an iPhone five. By the way, raining For S.g

Since upgrading to iOS 5.0, I cannot get my iPod Touch 4g to do a WiFi sync. It does not show up in the Devices section unless wired to my computer. When connected to the computer, I checked to make sure WiFi sync was enabled. It is. I disabled it, synced, and then enabled it and synced. Same thing. I checked the General settings for WiFi sync, and it says the PC is not available. Anyone else? Is there anything else I can try?

As a rule, I clear out the task switcher and reboot my iPod Touch 4g before going to sleep at night. This way, I start the day fresh, and so does my iPod. I did it last night, and heard the iPod restart and Voice Over announced the screen was locked. This morning, when the iPod alarm went off, it wasn't talking. All of my Voice Over settings were gone. Triple Click Home didn't turn it back on. I had to get my wife to turn Voice Over on for me. When I went in, all Voice Over settings were gone. Not only had it been turned off, and the home button function disabled, I lost my settings for speech, including the rotor settings. I've never had this happen before.

Hi, I don't know if anyone has experienced this bug with voice over when you are in a text message/imessages and when you click on the load earlier messages button, Voiceover seems a bit sluggish, has anyone experienced this? Its like when you click on the load messages button,its kinda like voice over becomes a bit unresponsive for 2-3 seconds.