Please let me know if anyone else has come across this problem.
I use voice control to navigate my phone before bed and for some reason a couple nights ago it stopped saying any commands?
Like I give it a command and it makes the switching or clicking sounds but doesn’t say any of my voiceover screen words…
Is this because of an update? I’d like to be able to keep my routine every evening but with this problem there is absolutely no way to get around it.
I’ve searched Google, and I’ve went through every single command in the voice control settings to try and figure anything out… Unfortunately I’ve had no luck.
If any of you get a chance to give it a try please let me know how it goes!
Edited two add a few more details:
When voice control is on, if I touch the screen voiceover will say what it should like usual. But then if I ask voice control to swipe right it makes the swishing sound but no voice over titles.
When I switch voice control off everything still works like normal with voice over.
I still have some light vision so I noticed when I give voice control a command on the home screen like swipe right, the entire page moves! It is like voice control is active without voiceover or that it turns one off at a time?
I’m not sure if I explained it right or if it makes no sense at all ha ha.
Hope this is helpful!
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update
Did you update to iOS 13.4?
Yes but…
Yesterday evening I did update to the latest iOS version. However I only did this to try and fix my issue.
This problem started a couple days ago, everything worked fine in the morning and when I went to do my usual nightly routine everything just didn’t work.
Figured I didn’t have anything to lose with trying out the new update but sadly it didn’t seem to fix it
Experiencing same issue on ipad
I have just enabled voice control on my ipad running the most up-to-date version of ios and am experienceing the same issue where items are not being read when giving swipe commands. I just wondered if you managed to resolve this issue?
Sadly there’s no change yet
There is still no voice over when I give voice control commands.
However I do have a really roundabout way to at least get my book to play.
Before going to bed, I open up my dolphin easy reader app and open up my book. Then once I’m ready I can turn on voice control and say which buttons I need. I’ve memorized them
So I would say tap book options
Tap sleep timer
Tap 15 minutes
And then finally tap play
Once my time is done that I just say lock the screen but yeah it’s a really complicated not fix
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