As of iOS 11, VoiceOver no longer provides feedback when using the physical buttons on a device to change the volume level.
iOS/iPadOS
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Steps to reproduce:
- Open the native Music app and start playing an album or playlist.
- Double-tap on the screen element to open the Mini Player.
- Place VoiceOver focus on any track listed in the ‘Up Next’ list.
- Flick right.
VoiceOver should now say “Reorder Button Draggable Double-tap and hold, wait for the sound, then drag to re-arrange Actions available”.
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Steps to reproduce:
- Open the native Music app and start playing an album or playlist.
- Double-tap on the screen element to open the Mini Player.
- Place VoiceOver focus on any track listed in the ‘Up Next’ list.
- Flick right.
VoiceOver should now say “Reorder Button Draggable Double-tap and hold, wait for the sound, then drag to re-arrange Actions available”.
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When using the Messages app with VoiceOver and a Bluetooth keyboard, VoiceOver focus occasionally behaves inconsistently. This issue usually presents itself after one presses enter to send a message; when this bug does occur, VoiceOver focus usually lands several messages previous in the thread.
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On iPhone or iPod touch and in the first or only page of a Home screen folder, performing a three-finger swipe to the right will load the Today View, when it should actually do nothing.
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On iPhone or iPod touch and in the last page of a Home screen folder, performing a three-finger swipe to the left will load the App Library, when it should actually do nothing.
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If you have certain notifications configured to be shown ‘grouped’ in the Notifications Center, you may find that on occasions the grouped notifications do not expand to show all individual messages when you double-tap on the group.
We have been unable to determine a clear pattern to this behavior, in that it does not appear to be specific to notifications from one or more apps. Additionally, grouped notifications from an app will behave as expected on one occasion, but then not expand the next time.
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On occasion, the Edit item is missing from the VoiceOver rotor's Actions menu when in empty text fields; even though you have text on the clipboard.
On these occasions, a double-tap and long press on the text field will typically reveal the Paste button. At this point, Edit also becomes available from the Actions menu.
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On occasion you may find that VoiceOver will stop speaking as you navigate the Notification Center.
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The title says all that needs to be said. This is happening in Notes, Mail, and some textfields in Safari.
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After using the "More" option from the VoiceOver Actions menu on a Lock Screen notification, you may find on occasions that 1 or more other notifications which were previously listed on the Lock Screen are now gone.
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On occasions, when using an external keyboard, you will find that when you press on Control+Option+SpaceBar the Context menu will be triggered rather than the item VoiceOver focus is on at the time being activated.
This doesn't happen often, but frequently enough to be an irritation and to indicate that there is an underlying issue.
It also doesn't appear to be widespread in terms of where it can be encountered, but has been seen on Home screen icons, in the mail app, and in RSS and Twitter apps.
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There are situations system-wide where you will find that some VoiceOver voices will announce punctuation such as apostrophes and quotation marks when they should not be spoken.
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On occasions, when editing the App Library screen available on iOS 14 it is not possible to swipe to the ‘Done’ button.
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On occasions, when editing the Today view on iOS 14 it is not possible to swipe to the ‘Done’ and ‘Add Widget' buttons
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On occasions, you may not be able to locate by touch the Space key on the onscreen keyboard. When this happens, VoiceOver may report that you have ‘touched’ the Dictate key, but will still insert a space when you double-tap. However, this behavior does not appear to be consistent and is infrequent.
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In situations where action in one app results in a second app being opened - such as when double-tapping on a link in the Mail app will cause the webpage to open in Safari - it may not be possible to locate by touch the Status Bar afterwards.
This appears to be a device-specific issue.
It is consistently reproducible on an iPhone XS Max, but does not occur on an iPhone SE or a 2019 iPad Air.
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When navigating the playback controls on either the Lock Screen or Notification Center, VoiceOver does not recognise or speak the total duration time which is visually present on screen below the timeline slider/scrubber; speaking only the current position of whatever audio you are playing.
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Place VoiceOver focus on an element on the lock screen, for example the time.
Swipe right repeatedly to cycle through the elements, such as the date, the flashlight button, the camera button and any notifications that are on screen.
You will encounter the elements of the status bar, such as wifi and battery level, even though you have not moved focus to the status bar.
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- Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
- Open the Find My app.
- Locate the Map Settings button and double-tap with 1 finger.
On the resulting screen the Close button is missing a VoiceOver label.