Apple Releases iOS 10.3; Bringing a Number of VoiceOver Fixes, but also Introducing at Least One New Bug of Note

The bug still exists on my iPod touch when trying to jump to lettered headings in my music app. When sorted by artists I can't go down past A. When going from the bottom up and it gets to T it then jumps all the way back up to A. I have like 200 some artists and it's a lot to get to a certain one. I was really hoping this was fixed. I will be contacting Apple about this.

When I go to news open article and read and come out voiceover still says unread. This bug still there in iOS 10.3. So much for fixing the problem.

Holger Fiallo, I know. I've told them twice now. It is a small issue of course, but by the same token, damned irritating, because it is unnecessary and worked fine before. Wouldn't like to estimate when a fix will be forthcoming, and frankly, I've told them twice, can't really b bothered to email for a third time, I've a life and a job. Such a small issue, such a simple fix, they've improved news in other aspects by adding a helpful hint when you save an article and fixing the headings issue, you'd think this would be a doozy.
I'd encourage all of you to continue emailing of course, and maybe they'll get around to it in a couple of years.

i've not seen it mentioned anywhere yet, but the mBraille system keyboard will actually fail to load after a couple seconds of showing a blank area when trying to switch to it in this fancy new update. This ihas been the case for the past 3 or 4 beta builds. i of course sent an email, and Hari's rejoinder to this was a hope that apple would get this straightened out.

So do I. I work full time as social worker but I making the time to report this problem with news. Maybe if someone can send T Cook email to look into the bugs in VO he will get them to focus more on them.

Hello,
Has anyone noticed any change in connectivity speed of the Brailliant family of braille displays? On Ios 10.2.1, my Brailliant is very slow to connect to my ipad and I was wondering if this has been improved in 10.3.

I just use BSI on my iPhone. Much easier than using Mbraille/other braille apps and it does what I need it to do.

Copied from the iOS software update screen:

Find My iPhone
View the current or last known location of your AirPods
Play a sound on one or both AirPods to help you find them
Siri
Support for paying and checking status of bills with payment apps
Support for scheduling with ride booking apps
Support for checking car fuel level, lock status, turning on lights and activating horn with automaker apps
Cricket sports scores and statistics for Indian Premier League and International Cricket Council
CarPlay
Shortcuts in the status bar for easy access to last used apps
Apple Music Now Playing screen gives access to Up Next and the currently playing song’s album
Daily curated playlists and new music categories in Apple Music
Other improvements and fixes
Rent once and watch your iTunes movies across your devices
New Settings unified view for your Apple ID account information, settings and devices
Hourly weather in Maps using 3D Touch on the displayed current temperature
Support for searching “parked car" in Maps
Calendar adds the ability to delete an unwanted invite and report it as junk
Home app support to trigger scenes using accessories with switches and buttons
Home app support for accessory battery level status
Podcasts support for 3D Touch and Today widget to access recently updated shows
Podcast shows or episodes are shareable to Messages with full playback support
Fixes an issue that could prevent Maps from displaying your current location after resetting Location & Privacy
VoiceOver stability improvements for Phone, Safari and Mail

Related to the unread bug, is an issue that was drawn to my attention a while back by someone commenting on 10.2.1. Basically experiencing crashing when reading stories, I've had this myself, but only in certain publications, it is actually very frustrating when it happens continually, I'm assuming it is because of advertising or other content that VO has trouble navigating over when reading. This I will definitely report again, and I do wonder if this has been fixed with the other improvements in news this release. Regarding reporting bugs to Apple, of course do this, it is just we should not have to report issues consecutively without action. 10.3 had many, many betas.

Hello all!

I fix the 3D Touch bug by going into accessibility 3D Touch settings and turning it off then I did a hard reset and after my phone re-booted back up I turn 3D Touch back on. That's all it took! I hope it works for you all!!!

Hi! Regarding for a free D touch that wase writen in this blog post, i wasen't incounter this with my iPhone 7.it Works fine to me.

Wow, reading the comments it's sounding like this update isn't so great for some folks but it's working beautifully for me. In fact, i'm finding that on my iPhone 7, VoiceOver is even more snappy than in 10.2.1. I can swipe through apps very quickly and there's no lag or delay, even with Bluetooth headphones connected. I also like the idea of having the settings for your Apple ID, right there in the settings screen. It actually makes a lot more sense to put them in there. I'm sorry some folks are experiencing the issues they are for sure, it's always rough when things don't work as you expect them to. For me, however, this 10.3 upgrade is working great! I'm also liking the close folder option when moving apps around. I tried it last night and it worked perfectly.

For whatever reason, when I'm sent the 6 digit code, I can't read it. I can only find a couple of the digits, or whatever. Anyone have an idea why? I turned it off for now, but if I could read the code, I'd use it.

I am struggling with the 3D Touch bug on my iPhone 7. After finally making it a habit, now i am having to break it. Ha. I will try the work around suggested, and after letting Apple know I am having the issue, wait impatiently for the fix.

I'm trying to update my iPhone and it askeds me to enter my pass code. I do that and after I do that my phone freezes and I'm not sure what is happening. When I swipe it makes that noise like I'm at the end of a page.

I am running iOS 10.3 on a 128GB iPhone 6S Plus. I am using AirPods and a Logitech Keys-To-Go BlueTooth keyboard.

Because I had heard that VoiceOver and 3D Touch might not work well together in iOS 10.3, before updating from 10.2.1, I turned off 3D touch from the Accessibility settings. I did the upgrade and then turned 3D Touch back on. At first, I thought 3D Touch was working, but my opinion quickly shifted.

Until I used 3D Touch, the phone acted normally. Once I used 3D Touch on the Music app, I started seeing odd behaviors. Here are two of the erratic and hard to predict hiccups.

* My BlueTooth keyboard shortcuts quit working dependably. For example, the keyboard Home button would not always function, and the Control-UpArrow and Control-DownArrow often yielded unpredictable results.

* The Music 3D Touch menu would occasionally just appear without having beeen summoned by a force touch and I was stuck in the menu from my BlueTooth keyboard.

I have now turned off 3D Touch, and performed a hard reset by holding down the Home and Power keys for ten seconds and then rebooting. Things are currently acting as I would hope and expect, but without the utility of 3D Touch. I look forward to a fix. I am a fan of 3D touch.

I was hoping that Apple would add a feature in iOS 10.3 that would allow all iPhones to vibrate the time. This would be similar to the taptic time in watchOS 3. Maybe it will be possible in the next update.

This could be a coincidence, but, my step counting was working fine until this morning. I installed the new update last night. I'll do some digging.

Looks like i'm the only one whose liking this update, but hey. I've been in the minority thousands of times before, and it's a place I know very well.

I find this update quite nice though some of the BSI characters for Polish language have not been corrected. After this update, VO speaks correctly names of Apple products and services and there is no need to put suggestions in the pronunciation section.

Your not in the minority, Toonhead. It is a good update on balance, especially some of the security fixes, which are very important, and the other additions. I merely wish that they would address the news issue I've taken the time to report on 2 separate occasions.

Hi. Just came on to say. My problem is fixed. And so far I'm liking the update. Haven't seen the problem with 3d touch that was mentioned yet. And I use it all the time.

After looking all over the net, I could find no one else with my step counting issues. I decided to try toggling motion tracking off, then on again, but I read that if I switch off motion tracking, I would lose all my historical data. I decided that losing yesterday's data was worth having data today. I toggled it off, then on. My phone started recording steps, and I did not lose any previous data.

The 3D touch issue is still happening, most of the time. Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it is a crap shoot what will happen.

Now with the step count working, I am much happier with 10.3, though I wasn't really upset given that I know my issues would be fixed in time.

I am liking the simple fix to the landing spot in the mail app.

I was really surprised, after updating to 10.3, that my issues with Safari have been fixed. With the initial release of iOS 10, Headings in Safari would be... stuck together, for lack of a better way to phrase it. You couldn't tell which link was which sometimes, unless you counted, or something like that. But in iOS 10.3, it's fixed. I'm not having any Safari issues at all now.
They also fixed the "find" problem, too. If you would do the find command in, say, the Kindle app, it hadn't worked correctly since... I don't remember the exact number, but sometime in iOS 9. It's fixed, now, and works as it should.
Overall, I'm very happy with this update.

Hello!

I haven't updated yet to 10.3, but I have a couple questions.

1. I heard the knew filing system APFS. doesn't handle compression. I use the Bard Mobile App & was wondering if I needed to be concerned about not being able to read those magazines & books since they are compressed?
I'm sure that I probably don't have anything to worry about, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

2. Does anyone know if the dictation bug where VO. would say the instructions for dictation while in dictation mode was fixed?
Only reason I know it's a bug is because I called accessibility support & explained it & the guy said `It's an issue we're aware of & are currently working on.` & that was when 10.2 was out.
Thanks in advance.

I have my message setup to one time only but when I get aiMessage, , VO repeats it several times.Is this an bug or I am not doing something well. I did go to my notificationcheck that I have notice for message one time.

Has anyone heard any update on re-springboard? This is the feature that reloads the home screen when you clicked the power button rapidly. I have seen discussion that this was removed because it conflicted with another feature. We still need the feature though, so I wonder if there are any thoughts on a different gesture?
In regard to the news app, I too would like to see this fixed. It is a relatively minor issue however, so I suspect it is pretty low on the priority list. Feedback is the only way for us to impact the priority, so if the feature is worth it to you, make the report. Being silently frustrated helps no one.

Sorry I forgot to mention earlier. Suppose I could have easily edited the thing, but… This is happening on both an iPad pro and a 7plus: When I try to use it as a system keyboard, the screen will go blank for a few seconds, then show a really dumb looking version of the default iOS keyboard. By that I mean that predictions will not be shown, autocorrect will not work, and a couple other things. Note this started happening immediately after I updated to the version of mBraille put out on the store a few weeks ago, which fixed some language issues.

Bard mobile works fine with 10.3. if that's the only thing holding you back, don't worry, it's great.

Thanks Toonhead! It just had me a bit worried since those books/magazines are .zip files & the new system doesn't support compression. Phew!

When they say that APFS does not support compression, they are talking about automatic compression of files behind the scenes, invisible to the user, as a means to save storage space. This is completely different from having files that contain compressed data, which most media files are. The previous file system, HFS+, also did not have built-in compression to my knowledge, so nothing is lost. It's just a feature other modern file systems like ZFS support, but APFS does not, and it's possible compression may be added to APFS in the future.

Intermittently, when you go to your message list and swipe, it jumps to the third message, skipping the first two. This was a problem in the previous version as well. Only happens occasionally.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it would effect things like BARD. If so, I really did not want to update. Couldn't tell if it was something I needed to be concerned about or not. Thanks again.

Hi. I have noticed that accessibility of music app is broken. When i want to watch songs in apple music playlist or album voiceover is stuck and i can't do anything! I am using an iPhone5S. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?

Hello,
Try restarting your iPhone. You can also try closing the music app and opening it again. Also, try restarting voiceover. Hope this helps. You can also send a report to Accessibility@apple.com.

I tried to change the voice I use, I was using Daniel enhanced but wanted to change it to the English male serie but I double tapped and male serie was selected to speech but Daniel is still there, can't get rid of him and the voice won't change, any one else had the problem and is there a fix? Or am I doing something wrong?

Hi,
You'll need to select the voice you want, for instance select the siri male enhanced voice, then either plug your phone in, or turn on your external battery case to initiate charging. Remember to keep your device charging. Also, you'll need to have the phone connected to wifi in order for the voice/voices to download.
HTH

The inability to change your selected voice might be a result of the language rotor. You might try to delete all the other languages which may be listed below the voice and pronunciation sections. Should this not be desired, another alternative is to turn the invisible rotor until you find the language option. You're Siri male voice maybe selectable with a flick up or down in that menu.