When using an app and a banner notification is displayed, you may find that on occasions the banner will remain on screen until you either interact with it or switch to another app or the Home screen.
Note that this is when you have the banner style set to be ‘temporary’, which means that it should only be displayed on screen for 2-3 seconds before automatically being hidden.
This appears to be a VoiceOver-specific issue, as we have not seen reports of sighted users encountering this behaviour.
Things appear to work as expected if, after triggering the 3D Touch menu, you keep your finger pressed to the screen and drag to locate a menu item by touch or perform a very distinct swipe gesture to move VoiceOver focus. However, anything else (such as lifting your finger and then trying to locate a menu item by touch) may result in one of the menu items being triggered with no input from you.
If you are using a bluetooth device and VoiceOver is turned off or crashes, you may find that you need to reconnect your audio device before VoiceOver will once again use it for output. Bluetooth devices also disconnect when other audio controls are activated such as the VoiceOver Rotor ‘Audio Ducking’ and ‘Audio Destination’.
In some apps, the "Go", "Search", or similar button in the bottom right of the keyboard remains dimmed if you have entered text only using Braille Screen Input. You must type a character using the on-screen keyboard before you can activate the button.
Braille displays will disconnect if you are in Airplane mode and have re-enabled bluetooth. The display will work normally until the screen is locked; when you unlock the screen, you will find that your Braille display does nothing and needs to be reconnected.
In Safari, you can't enter text using braille screen input on webpages. Braille works in the address/search field, but go to a webpage with a text field and start editing it (say a login or search field). Switch to braille input and try to type something: either you get nothing, or you get responses as though Quick Nav were on, even though this is not a hardware keyboard. While this is a great feature for jumping around a webpage, it should be disabled when you are editing.
Whenever your using Braille screen input it will crash when you go to the new line or if you are trying to delete a word.
When adding a new event to the Calendar app, the names in the list of calendars that you can select to add the event have some extraneous text (the calendar name followed by something like "png, clear, crisp, image").
As of iOS 11, Home Screen icons are managed using a new "Drag" option accessed through the VoiceOver Actions menu. If you start performing a drag, and then use the "Cancel Drag" option from the Actions Menu, you will commonly find that the item initially marked for dragging ends up in a different location on the Home Screen to where it was at the start.
In Settings > General > Software update > Beta updates, nothing happens when attempting to activate the “Learn more” link using VoiceOver.
When attempting to add a name for a new list in the native Reminders app, the onscreen keyboard will very briefly be displayed but disappear again before it is possible to access and use it.
The "Drop" actions in Control Center's "edit controls" interface do nothing when selected, with controls remaining in their original locations despite VoiceOver reporting "drop complete."
When attempting to edit the name of a list in the native Reminders app, the onscreen keyboard will very briefly be displayed but disappear again before it is possible to access and use it.
In the native Home app that’s new in iOS 10, the list of people who have shared access to control accessories is read by VoiceOver as one item. As a result, you cannot access a specific user to view or edit their permissions.
After double-tapping on a sticky note in FreeForm, it is not always possible to use the VoiceOver rotor to navigate and edit the text. When this issue occurs, VoiceOver also does not announce the position of the insertion point as expected.
After double-tapping the “Send later” button in the Mail scheduling menu, double-tapping the time does not work to expand the UI element, making the date the only thing that can be edited when scheduling an email with VoiceOver.
The echoing of characters and words with Eloquence is too slow to let me use this voice when typing with BSI. This is especially noticeable with contractions like ED or THE; when Eloquence reads these back as it echoes the character I've typed, it's as though there are a few commas between each of the letters in the contraction. Alex, at least, speaks the letters fast enough for me to hear most or all of them before I start typing. At the very least, I don't have to pause as long as I do with Eloquence.
The following is taken from a warning notice issued by the American Printing House for the Blind:
When double-tapping on the name of a contact in App Switcher to reveal the available contact options, VoiceOver does not announce the identifying label when there are multiple options for the same contact method - for example, home, work and cellular telephone numbers will all be read as simply "phone call".
After pressing the Home button to move away from an app, the device will occasionally become unresponsive for anything up to 30 seconds.