Phone sometimes goes to sleep while speaking a notification

By Howard Goldstein, 4 January, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

I recently updated my SE 2022 from iOS 16.7.2 to 17.2.1. Ever since then I've been having the following strange and annoying issue. I normally keep my phone locked. Sometimes, but not every time when a notification of any kind comes in, Voiceover starts reading it but then the phone goes back to sleep before the whole thing can be spoken. The speech cuts off in the middle of a word and the "screen locked" sound is played. It's very frustrating because sometimes it works fine for several notifications and I think it's fixed but it always comes back again when I least expect it. Has anyone else encounterd this? Is there a particular setting I should look at that might fix it?

Thanks,
Howard

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