Weird Bug with VoiceOver in 18.2 Beta 4. Anyone else facing this too? Please respond.

By Ayub Abraham Flores, 21 November, 2024

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After upgrading to iOS 18.2 Developer Beta 4, I have encountered a weird issue. The VoiceOver volume can only be set to 100 percent. You were able to go past that amount but with this beta update, it seems that the VoiceOver volume limit can only be set to 100 percent. Anyone else facing this issue?

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By TheBllindGuy07 on Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 23:46

This was already present in previous betas. Reported. Sad to see it hasn't been patched yet.

By Holger Fiallo on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 00:16

My VO appears better now. Voice volume tended to go up or down but severely, it just was a pain. I think apple made change to audioducking again.

By Theepan on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 01:45

There is a new control for audio ducking amount. You can add it to the rotor or you can also find it in quick settings.
Now, the speech volume goes up to 100% and, the new ducking level controls the amount other media is pushed down.
This, in my opinion, is much better.

By Holger Fiallo on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 02:17

Beside the old audioducking?

By Dennis Long on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 02:20

see @Theepan response this is not a bug.

By Theepan on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 03:19

Well it's all the same settings as in 18.0 and 18.1 Except, no there are two separate controls for voiceover speech volume and audio ducking amount.
In iOS 18.0, they introduced the same functionality but they use the same control for both volume level and ducking amount.
Zero through 100 would adjust the voiceover speech volume and 100 to 199 determined how much the other media was pushed down. From 18.2, these two are separate.

By Brian on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 07:50

I agree this new way sounds much better. Too many folks were getting tripped up over the fact that volume went over 100%. 🤷