Help, custom VoiceOver labels go missing

By Elijah76, 1 April, 2017

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi there,
I was just wondering,why is it that when we label certain unlabelled elements in an ios app,, they go missing the next time they're launched?
I recently labelled a button which was unlabelled in the updated dropbox app but it went missing after i launched the app the second time around,
Thanks,

Aarvind

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By JeffB on Friday, April 14, 2017 - 16:50

Was the app updated? I know that can remove them. If not sure I'm not sure what happened.

By Elijah76 on Friday, April 14, 2017 - 16:50

Hi toonhead,

Althoughthe developers should be labelling elements in their apps, sometimes they forget to do so; lol,

But we have the option of labelling them by doing a two finger double tap and hold,
For some reason however, the share on the share button on the latest version of dropbox does not stick,

By Brian Tew on Friday, April 14, 2017 - 16:50

Have you labelled elements in other apps that stayed put using the same version of ios?

By Elijah76 on Friday, April 14, 2017 - 16:50

Yes i have and they do not go missing, but some in some apps they do, i wonder why, it's like as if i am labelling a button on a web page, it too will not remain,
Is it because of it's dynamic content?

By Luke on Friday, April 14, 2017 - 16:50

I've noticed this too, or the custom label will end up on the wrong button entirely . I think you're right about dynamic content. The controls are probably being instantiated programmatically rather than hard-coded during app design and thus always get a new ID when the app is run.