Apple Releases iOS 12.3 with Redesigned TV App and Some Accessibility Improvements for Blind and Low Vision Users

Just getting it. Hope things go well.

I'm not sure if anyone else may have encountered this, but I thought I would check.

I created a calendar called "TV Schedule" where I added events for each of my shows, on the day they aired on cable, so I could easily watch them on the channel's mobile app the following day.

Since updating to iOS 12.3 though, I've noticed that all of the events in this calendar have completely disappeared. Granted, most of my shows' seasons are coming to a close, but I was still surprised that an update had the side effect of deleting them.

Now the events on my personal calendar have all remained, but this is the first time something like this has happened.

Has anyone ever encounter this kind of issue in the past?

Furthermore, I've also noticed that in some apps, like the Calendar app, if you select the Calendar button to view all of the various calendars you've created, the button near the bottom that allows you to select or deselect all at once, the word "all" is in all caps. Before the update though, VoiceOver always read the word properly (e.g. all), but now, since updating, it spells out the word as "A L L".

Granted I just went into the pronouciation dictionnary and fixed it. I also noticed in other apps, like in the IMDb mobile app, when viewing a movie or television show, when you go through the list of cast, after the first 4, there is some text saying "All Cast Members" or something and the word "all" is in all caps again.

I've noticed this trend often where the word "all is written in all caps. Don't know why developpers write it this way. It's similar to sites who write the "Us"" in "Contact Us" links in all caps as well.

I know this is a minor gripe, but I just thought I would mention it.

Thanks!

For me, so far, the focus issue in News, Safari, and other apps that use HTML pages has been fixed.

I hope the frustration is behind us. This bug was the longest standing, significant impairment to my use of my IOS devices I can recall. I was beginning to assume I would have to wait for iOS 13 or, beyond.

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Just updated my iphone and my Mac is currently updating. So far so good.

They haven't sorted out the issues introduced with the latest incarnation of the UK Siri female voic. So if you want to type the word 'are' or 'our' you're out of luck if you expect her to say that word except if you make her say it in a full sentence. If your name is Leanne, you're out of luck as UK Siri female will call you Lee Anne until further notice. Phone remains phoned, the Sky in Sky News is rendered in a way that defeats my ability to put such things into words, and generally she gives the impression that she's been working very hard with that therapist from the King's Speech and is doing her best under difficult wartime circumstances.

The TV app looks good but I was hoping for changes to that Siri voice. Hopefully next time.

I can't speak for other countries, but here in Australia, the TV app doesn't have the channels tab, or whatever it's called, plus, they removed the store where you could find various services you could subscribe to, like anime lab, 7Plus, 9 now, tenplay, ABC iView, and quite a few others.

Hey @Kool_Turk... in the new TV app, Channels isn't a tab at the top or bottom. If you select the "Watch Now" tab and move down by headings, you should land on a heading called "Subscribe to Apple TV Channels".

This is where you can subscribe to channels within the app and even try out free trials.

Also keep in mind that there may be more choices in the US as here in Canada, the only options we have are Smithsonian and Acorn TV. There isn't any options for our local streaming or channel providers like Global TV or CTV.

I personally agree that there are braille issues that haven't been dealt with yet, and I'm rather annoyed with Apple at this point that after a year of iOS 12, nothing has been done about this. And iOS 13 is in 4 months, like seriously?
I am still having the issue with reading text boxes, radio buttons, and pop up buttons. The braille display only shows the format indicators for the radio button, text field or pop up, but not the label before it. In order to hear what you're focused on, you have to enable VO speech and make it read it out for you.
This is especially difficult, because whenI'm trying to make an AppleVis iOS App Entry, i must turn speech on in VO, then flick over to see if I'm focused on, for example, the app is fully accessible with VoiceOver, rather than The app is totally inaccessible. I could be selecting the wrong thing and wouldn't know until I enabled speech. In iOs 11 it wasn't like that, but it seems it was introduced in 11.4 and higher.
I wish they'll fix it soon, but I'm kind of ready to stop using my braille display already with my phone the way it's going now.

I only saw the channels feature when I took the tip about navigating by heading. anyway in the UK it seems that it's a case of either smithsonian or Starsplay. Both look rubbish to be honest so I'm not sure this feature will be of interest to me until it's beefed up.

I agree with you @Bingo Little. Like the UK, here in Canada, we just have two channels.

From what I've read online, more channels should be added over time.

As like @Kool_Turk mentioned, it's a little difficult to find the list of apps that can connect to the TV app. The closest thing I've found is, when in the "Watch Now" tab, if you tap on the "Account Settings" button at the top of the screen, under the "Sources" heading, there is a button labelled "Connected Apps" and a number of apps.

If you tap on this and view the list, each source has a toggle switch.

I've looked at mine and all the previous apps seem to be there, minus a couple. I know we use to have the BritBox in the list, as well as Crave, and they don't show up in my list of connected apps, so I am not sure why they were removed or even if this list does indeed show all supported apps.

In case some were not aware, while in the "Watch Now" tab, if you tap on "Account Settings", besides having the ability to view the connected apps, there is also a "Manage Subscription" button which also brings you to your Apple ID's subscriptions. So no need to open the App Store app and access your subscriptions from there, you can do it straight from the TV app too.

So I scrolled through my what to watch screen and there is definitely no subscribe to channels section.

When going into account settings to see what I have toggled on, there is only 6 channels, and they're all switched on.

All the good content is on Foxtel, which is the main pay tv provider here in Australia, and there is no way they're going to make a deal with Apple.

All the shows that are on the various networks in the US, like show time, HBO, and Starz, all have deals with various providers here, so it's one big fragmented mess.

I think this article can explain it better than what I'm trying to explain so I'll let it speak for itself.

https://www.channelnews.com.au/new-apple-tv-set-to-struggle-in-oz/

Hello again. Ever since updating to iOS 12.3, and I think a little while prior, I've been unable to access my voicemail messages from my iPhone unless I tap on "Call Voicemail." I can access messages just fine when I call my voicemail from my land-line phone, but for some reason it doesn't work anymore from my iPhone. A sister of mine is experiencing the same issue, but she lives with our parents and they recently cut the cord. I had a bit of time to myself earlier this afternoon, so I called AT&T to inquire about this. The representative with whom I spoke was very helpful and courteous, and he tried resetting my voicemail. It might be a bit too early to tell whether or not that resolved the issue, but it doesn't look like it. Has anybody else had this issue? If so and it has been resolved, how did it get resolved? Or perhaps we'll have to wait for iOS 13? I realize I could just rely on the built-in talking caller ID, but I do like to check my voicemail especially for important calls. But otherwise this update seems pretty good.

I have the following issue for a while. I have my email in manual fetch yet I get unread emails several times. I delete them and within hours or in the morning I see 40 or so unread emails. Any suggestion. I did check my fetch and is on manual. Using iOS 12.3. This is happening for 9 months now. Using RCN services.

Hey guys.
I've had this odd issue since updating. While reading a article, Vo. will stop mid-sentence. I have 2 swipe back & then go back to the sentence. It's only happened twice so far. And the last time this happened (today), I had to swipe back & forth twice to get Vo. to get Vo. to finish the sentence. It's intermitent, I only seen it twice. In Google News & Safari.
I'm not sure if it's related to Ios. 12.3, but it didn't happen until I updated. But I'm not sure if it's just because of ads or some other animated web content. But I figured I'd mention it here & see if anyone else has noticed this.

One thing I’ve noticed is that when using the actions menu in the Files app, some of the actions are duplicated and double tapping doesn’t always accomplished the desired goal.
For example, when swiping up or down with one finger, the delete option might be duplicated but clicking on the second one will not delete The file.
However, it’s only a minor issue because you can still use the selection method to delete files.

Try this with VO: "It's Monday". Step through each character and you would find that the single quote is now read as either "open single quotation mark" or "close single quotation mark". Needless to say this is taking up my precious hearing bandwidth not to say annoying.

Go to Settings then Keyboard, uncheck "Smart Puntuation". Then it will go back to "apostrophe".

I'm noticing that if I am in the face book app, and then double tap on say something like my friends tab, voice over loses focus and then jumps to the top of the entire app. This behavior happens in other apps as well such as twitter, Pandora, and Iheart radio.