In Settings, VoiceOver does not speak the information displayed about devices linked to your Apple ID.
Depending upon the type of device, this will include information such as the model number, the software version, and the serial number.
iOS/iPadOS
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In some situations, it is not possible to move apps into folders on the Home Screen when using the VoiceOver Rotor's Drag-and-Drop functionality.
When selecting the Rotor option to add an app to a folder, our experience has been that the app is instead placed in the position before the folder.
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In the Files app that is new in iOS 11, the VoiceOver Actions Menu for files and folders includes two separate instances of "Delete." In some instances, one of these will be "Delete Now"; on other occasions, both will be "Delete."
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If you have multiple translation results on the screen, focusing on one will announce the presence of custom actions.
Most of them work correctly, except the two Voiceover calls "Drag1" and "Drag2".
Activating one of them will freeze Voiceover for a few seconds, but in the end won't do anything and will just play the no item discovered sound if sounds are enabled.
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In the iTunes Store app, using the VoiceOver rotor to navigate by heading is inconsistent and unreliable.
The typical behaviour appears to be that navigating by heading only works with headings that are visually present on screen at the time.
Consequently, VoiceOver may report that no further headings are available, when in fact there are.
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On occasion, when viewing the list of mailboxes in the Mail app, the number on the unread badge read by VoiceOver is inaccurate.
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In the Messages app you have the ability to pin conversations to the top of the list.
One way to do this with VoiceOver is to select the Pin option in the Actions menu.
However, when you do this, nothing happens. The method is not working.
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In the native Contacts app, the first item visually displayed at the top of any list of contacts is your own contact card. This can consistently and reliably be located by touch; however, when swiping, it is only found when swiping left from below in the Contacts list. If you swipe right from the top of this screen, VoiceOver focus will completely miss that your contact card is present.
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On most tabs in the native Music app, using the VoiceOver rotor to navigate by heading is unreliable.
The typical behaviour appears to be that navigating by heading only works with headings that are visually present on screen at the time.
Consequently, VoiceOver may report that no further headings are available, when in fact there are.
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New to iOS 16 are app Shortcuts, which are simple, one-action shortcuts that are ready to use as soon as you install an app from the App Store that has been updated to include them.
These are listed in the Shortcuts app. Unfortunately, where the shortcuts available for any app are listed, they are spoken by VoiceOver as a series of unlabelled buttons.
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A regression in iOS 17 causes incoming banner notifications to interrupt VoiceOver speech when the âSpeak Notificationsâ accessibility setting is enabled.
Specifically, any time a new notification banner appears, VoiceOver will immediately stop reading the current on-screen text or menu to announce the notification. This interrupts VoiceOver mid-sentence or mid-menu in a disruptive manner.
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If you have notifications set to be grouped by day in the Notifications Center, there may be inconsistencies in the behavior of the âClear Sectionâ and âConfirm Clear Sectionâ buttons when there are notifications for multiple days on this screen. These can prevent you from clearing notifications. Some of the Team have not been able to reproduce this, so it may be the result of a specific combination of settings or use case.
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If you use 3D Touch to open the âQuick Actionsâ menu on an icon in a Home screen folder, using the âscrubâ gesture to close that menu actually closes the folder. The âQuick Actionsâ menu remains on screen and you have to use the scrub gesture again to close the menu.
Note that this only occurs if you activate the Quick Actions for an item and do not swipe around the screen to explore the Quick Actions. If you navigate to one of the available Quick Actions and perform the two-finger scrub, the gesture works as intended and you are placed back on the itemâs icon inside the folder.
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Using the VoiceOver Actions Rotor on a Contact icon on the Proactive Search screen will occasionally result in the information from another contact being used/shown.
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During a phone call, showing or hiding the keypad works, but VoiceOver doesn't recognize that until you touch the screen. If you have the keypad visible and double-tap the button to hide it, then swipe left, you swipe through the keypad. If you instead touch the screen to explore it, VoiceOver reports what it should have all along--that the keypad is gone. The same happens in reverse when you show the keypad again.
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The behavior of VoiceOver focus can be inconsistent and unreliable when interacting with Lock Screen notifications. This has been most common when using the âMoreâ option from the VoiceOver rotor. On occasions VoiceOver focus will not correctly switch to reflect the change in what is active on screen after using this Rotor option, and swiping produces inconsistent and confusing results.
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The movement of VoiceOver focus through emails that include HTML lists can be inconsistent and unreliable; in some cases, VoiceOver may crash repeatedly
while focus is in the content.
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When using VoiceOver with the iOS time format set to 12-hour clock, there is an inconsistency in how the time is announced in the Status Bar depending on whether an app is open or the user is on the Home Screen. Specifically, when on the Home Screen, VoiceOver does not include the am/pm designation.
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When using VoiceOver to navigate the main screen of the native Weather app, the movement of focus is inconsistent and unreliable. Specifically, focus can become stuck on a UI element, falsely indicating there are no further elements to the right or left. Or focus may unexpectedly jump over elements as if they don't exist on the screen.
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If you use the Audio Destinations menu on VoiceOver's rotor when VoiceOver focus is on a UI element that also has Actions menu items available, flicking up or down will move through the menu items on the Audio Destinations menu, and then jump to items on the Actions menu.