Gestures bug is back in 18.1

I don't know your gesture but for me it's 4 fingers swipe up, and it works well on 18.1.

I also use four finger swipe up for status bar, and mine is working well also.

Sorry we couldn't be more helpful to your situation, Louise. That's crazy that your gesture for reaching the status bar is not, in fact, reaching the status bar. 😤😖

I experience also using my Braille Display.
When I do the command for Back it gos to the Battery precentage on a status bar and looss focus.
Also the status Bar command doesn't work.

I wonder if this is an issue with the dynamic island? Is there an option in the touch gestures to move to the dynamic island?
That might be a possible work-around. 🙂

Although I don’t have the same problem with gestures as you do, assigning gestures doesn’t work well for me either. When I try to assign a gesture to a shortcut, it can’t be done. A message appears saying that the gesture has been assigned to an incorrectly assigned command. This has been the case since system version 18.

Two things. I had this issue and to be honest every now and again it stops working. What I have found is when you perform the gesture make sure your fingers are firmly on the screen and rather than do a flick type gesture push your fingers across the screen. That seems to work for me. The other thing is do you have a screen protector on? I have a not proven idea that if the SP is not on straight it messes with the screen below.

I love using this gesture on my device, makes getting into notifications and control center happen more fluidly.

Louise, you will not like this, but you may need to reset your gesture settings. No, I do not mean reset iPhone settings, just your gesture settings.
You can do this by going to Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Commands, and at the bottom of that screen is a, "Reset VoiceOver Commands", button.

HTH. 🙂

I've also been experiencing this bug for quite a while now, so it's not the latest update in my case. I can confirm that at least for me, it definitely has something to do with the dynamic island. It's not completely consistant to reproduce, but it always happens anytime I have anything showing in the dynamic island such as now playing for music or podcasts.

Dynamic Island definitely sounds like it could be the culprit. As I mentioned, my gesture works fine, but alas, I do not have the dynamic island on my SE3. 😇

Thanks for bringing this up. My gesture to jump to status line has also quit working. I use a four-finger swipe up.

I think It appears you're facing an issue with the status bar gesture in iOS 18.1. Check for updates, as Apple often releases quick fixes. If the problem persists, try resetting all settings and ensure accessibility features aren’t interfering. If these steps don’t help, consider restoring your iPhone from a backup hopefully this will help you.
Thank You,
Mike Taku.

So, as I have mentioned, I have no issues with my "Move to StatusBar" gesture. I also use a 4 finger swipe up. What I have recently discovered, is that if I am, let us say on my Calendar app icon, on my Home screen, and then perform the gesture, I will be in the StatusBar. Usually mine puts VO's focus on the Cellular strength, usually something like, "Cellular, 4 of 4 bars, signal strength".

However, if I perform the gesture again, from the StatusBar, I will again be back on the Calendar app icon on my Home screen.

So with that in mind, is it possible that those of you who are having issues with this gesture, are performing it too fast and therefore making VO jump back to its last known position, like Calendar in my above example?

Just some food for thought. 😇

As far as I can tell, you can't disable it. not yet at least. :(