Voiceover issue with the iPhone XR after updating to 14.4

This happens fairly often with my 8, especially if I didn't initiate the call. If you decide to try a new phone, I hope it helps, but I wouldn't expect any major change.

Hi Ann, Don't think this is you're phone. I have an iPhone11 running 14.4 and this is happening to me. However, maybe not as bad. When it does this it is like I've turned vo speech off. I.E you still get the click noises when you scroll. I've found for me coming out of the phone app starts the voice again without having to stop vo all the time.

This got worse with 14.4, but I experienced it before that. I haven’t experienced it with a phone call but I do experience it with other random apps. The only solution I have found is to exit and re-enter VO.

I am at least glad to hear your phone is doing a bit better than mine…
I’m usually on my phone for at least 12 hours a day. At this point the only fix I sort of have is keeping Voice control turned on so I can quickly tell it to turn voiceover off and back on again. since I am on here pretty much all day it seems to happen almost every 30/60 minutes so that’s quite fun. However this does kill the battery super Duper fast. Whereas with voice control turned off my phone can last about 10 hours. But when voice control is turned on it’ll last maybe three hours, so if that s something you don’t need to use be sure to double check in the accessibility settings that its turned off.

I know I can’t survive without my phone but I am getting very frustrated… And that is extremely hard to do LOL. Hope you guys have a better weekend

iM using iPhone XR after I anding A phone call or whatsapp call some times VO gut mutit
I updatet it to iOS 14.5 beta.
but I didn try to make A phone call yet.
sorry for my language.

I currently have an iphone 7 on ios 13.1. I’m planning to buy an iphone 12 pro max. I’m really concerned that I will encounter this bug. I’m afraid that I won’t get VO back after a call. Not only is this a major inconvenience but could potentially be a safety issue as well. I use my phone to contact my family when I’m away from home. I can't aford for my phone to lock up during an emergency. After reading this post, I’m not sure what to do about upgrading. TBH, I’m not counting on apple to fix this serious bug anytime soon after reading this. So do you guys have any advice for me? I’m planning to go look at the phone on friday. I don’t want to make a mistake I’ll regret for years to come.

My XR's battery life started taking a major hit once I upgraded to 14.2. I could usually go almost the whole day, but suddenly had to plug the phone in around 3-4 pm. I think it improved with the next iOS update, but it's hard to say for sure as a few weeks later I upgraded to my current 12 mini.

What do you see when you go into your battery settings? Do you notice any apps using a disproportionate amount of battery compared to others? Do you have background app refresh turned on for most of your apps? That can sometimes do a number on your battery life because they're updating in the background, so I turn that off for most apps, and I think it does help a little. What does your battery health say? My XR popped up a message in there that said my battery health had significantly degraded and recommended replacement, which I did since at the time I was planning on keeping the phone for the long haul and had no idea I'd be getting the mini for Christmas. In retrospect, I probably didn't need to replace the battery quite that soon as its health was at 93%, but I don't know where that battery service message came from.

As for screen curtain improving battery life, I'm starting to think that's a myth. I wonder if people on this site could come up with a way to get some data that show that it does or does not actually improve battery life. In theory, most of the newer iPhones should get an improvement with screen curtain since they use OLED displays, which don't have a back light, but I wonder if anyone knows for sure.

I've been seeing that bug with VO losing speech after a call on my 12 mini, but to me it's a minor annoyance. It's certainly nowhere near as bad as iOS13 when VO would lock up completely after a call if you were using ear pods. The only way to get it back was to hard reset the phone, and with no way to know when the power off screen came up, there were many an unnecessary call made to emergency services.

I would also recommend investing in one of Apple's new 20W chargers if you can. You might also need to pick up a lightning to USB C cable if you don't have one already (like if you have Air Pods Pro). It has been super helpful especially with my 12 mini since I can plug the phone in for 20-30 minutes and get back a large chunk of battery life.

Hello, everyone. As the subject says, screen curtain does not drain the battery. It's purely a privacy feature that just makes your screen black. It's the brightness setting that kills your battery. If you don't need to see your phone's screen, turn off auto-brightness, and pull your brightness slider down to 0. People can still see your screen under the right conditions with your brightness at 0, so it's still wise to use your screen curtain when you want privacy. I basically leave screen curtain on all the time, since no one needs to be able to know what I'm doing except me.

Also, why not just use the side button to turn off VoiceOver when it starts acting up like this after a phone call? VO is still on when this happens, by the way. I know because I have VO sounds on, and I still hear clicks. I just turn off VO with the tripple click feature, and then turn it back on, and everything's good to go. Sometimes it doesn't work the first time. I find it good to wait a second or two before trying the second tripple click. The last thing I want to do is start the emergency call process. :)

I agree this bug isn't minor, but it's also not a total calamity like some people seem to think. Oh, and you can always have Siri turn off and on VO if you don't want to do the tripple click thing, or if your tripple click is set for multiple options.

Thanks,
Shersey

Does doing a three-finger double tap work? that turns speech on and off. If you're hearing clicking noises, that should help, as Voiceover is still working. I myself have not had this problem, but any time speech quits and there are still clicks, the three-finger double tap always works to turn speech back on. HTH.

No issues at all. voiceover for me is working quite well. I had issues with 13 but 14 has been very very stable on my system, and I Have the same phone you do.

Ok, I have some important questions that I would love some honest answers to. Is the bug discussed here something I should be worried about? Do you think I should hold off getting a new phone until this bug is fixed? But then again, I'm very doubtful it will be fixed anyway. I'm really afraid that I'm going to waste the Money I've taken a year to save up on a phone that won't work out. So what should I do? Is this bug worth considering jumping ship over? Some honest and constructive feedbackw be greatly appreciated.

Like I said earlier, doing a triple click of the side button a couple times should get VoiceOver Back up and running for you. This isn’t a showstopper, in my opinion, just more annoying than anything else. I haven’t tried doing a three finger double tap to see if speech will just turn back on.

I haven't noticed any battery issues, but I also don't mind carrying around a portable battery with me. I prefer them over battery cases, because you get a lot more use out of a portable battery than a battery case.

Thanks,
Shersey

I don't have battery issues either. Maybe you just have a defective phone IMHO. I've had a few of those in my life time. Apple replaced them for free.

I am running iOS 14.4 on an iPhone 12 mini, and I am not experiencing the VoiceOver silencing issue. I was using this same version with an iPhone 8 a little over a week ago, and there, too, I did not encounter any problems. I have my full screen showing the keypad during phone calls. Perhaps this is the difference.

Hello. After last ios update the problem who i have is that there is a delay for voiceover responce when hungout a call. This delay happends some seconds and voiceover works again.

I don't have that issue eihter. the call drops and I have speach. iOs 14 is zactually close to perfect for me.

I can't get my a description with my photos like I used to. I have taptap c but don't know how to use it well. I also have Seeing AI and the photos still aren't described. I'd like my phontos so I can delete the lame ones. Not sure how to fix it. Apple tried to help. Voiceover is fine. It's the photo description.

I thought tap tap see was dead. and I didn't htink it worked wiht other apps. Just use the one built into voiceover. it works quite well, especually if you have the detailed one on. My favorite was " "an airplane flying in the sky over a body of water. I knew that there was a shadow over the water as I memorized the name of the picture.

I have an iPhone XR, and I am using IOS 14.2.
I have not updated because I use my phone for work and I cannot afford to lose speech after every single call, because sometimes the calls come in too fast, a few seconds after hanging up.
Sometimes I Don't know if I lose speech, or if it was not on as if Voice-over was on but there was no speech when I plug in the Earpods, or if the plugging in the Earpods have anything to do with it. But the point is that when I plug them in, Voice-Over is on, but there's no speech. to fix it, I unplug them and plug them back in. I do it until it comes back, which its usually once, no more than twice.
Has anyone experienced this at some point?