The Monarch 1.4 update came out recently, adding Bluetooth support to the Braille terminal, so I decided to test it with my iPhone. I was able to connect it using Bluetooth by going to Settings -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver -> Braille, opening Braille Terminal on the Monarch and selecting Bluetooth, and choosing the Monarch from the iOS Braille displays list. To my surprise, iOS displayed multi-line Braille, and not just the current control! It displays as many items as will fit on the Monarch's display, with the currently focused item being at the top. The currently focused item also has an eight-dot selection indicator next to it, similar to what the Monarch does in its own menus. When I open a webpage in Safari, it displays lines of text in the same way. There is no formatting and there is indentation sometimes, but it does not seem to correspond to paragraphs. When a word is bolded or italicized and VoiceOver makes it a separate item, it is displayed on its own line on the Monarch; there is never more than one item on a single line. Unfortunately, none of the keys on the Monarch do anything; even the panning keys do not work. I was also able to connect it with USB C, and then input did work; I could navigate and type with the Perkins keyboard. However, the point and select method does not move the cursor or activate items, whether with one press of the center button or two. Also, pressing the panning keys moves way more than it should; it moves much farther than the last item on the display. For the left arrow keys, the left and right arrows move between rotor categories, and the up and down arrows move between rotor items. The arrow keys on the right behave the same way, except for some reason the left arrow moves to the previous item like dot 1 chord, but the other arrows behave the same as the ones on the left. Braille Access does not work; it can be launched with backspace and enter, and you can type Braille into it, but nothing is displayed; the Monarch continues to display what it was displaying before Braille Access was started. I am using an iPhone 16E with iOS 26.2.1.
