Weird voice over bug with punctuation

By Sam Doman, 1 September, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi, I’m wondering if anyone has had this issue and knows how to solve it. For some reason out of nowhere, voiceover is now reading all the punctuation on the screen even though I have the punctuation sent to some. I don’t know why this is happening because it just started happening out of nowhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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By Brian on Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 15:13

What version of iOS are you running?
What voice are you using with VO?

Try the following.

1. Swap voices. Doesn't matter what you have or what you like; do this.
2. Set punctuation to "none".
3. Open a webpage in Safari.
4A. If it resolves the issue move on to step 5..
4B. If it still reads all punctuation, go to VoiceOver > Activities and disable the one labelled 'Programming'.
5. Change VO's voice to whatever's clever.

6. Win.

HTH. 😃