iOS/iPadOS

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The 2 personalised music playlists new to Apple Music in iOS 10 are appearing on the “For You” tab as unlabelled buttons with no feedback for VoiceOver users on what they are (which is “My New Music Mix” and “My Favorites Mix”).

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The buttons in the Apple Music TV section of the Music app appear to be unlabeled.

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The Detected Text feature that's part of the VoiceOver Recognition features does not work with braille displays.

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When sending an email in the Mail app, the device becomes unresponsive for up to 30 seconds--with the amount of delay appearing to be proportional to the age of the device. This appears to only happen when you send after replying to an email, not when sending after composing a new message.

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In some situations, the Enhanced quality Siri voices may not be available for use with VoiceOver. This bug has been very difficult to reproduce, and only one member of our team is currently experiencing it.

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VoiceOver does not clearly or accurately report the current status of the Focus mode toggle in the Control Center, in particular when it is enabled.

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Please note. This problem is not present even under iOS 16.0 unless running a firmware version older than 2.1 of the braille display. In cases like the Humanware NLS E-Reader where there is currently no version 2.1, this problem still persists as outlined below.
These commands no longer work. For Brailliant and Chameleon users, a firmware update to version 2.1 will address this bug. it is not available to the NLS E-Reader devices though which are also produced by Humanware.

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  1. Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
  2. Open Safari.
  3. Double-tap with 1 finger on the address field.
  4. With VoiceOver focus still on the address field, flick up with 1 finger.

You should find that VoiceOver will announce “Show Context Menu”.

If you double-tap with 1 finger at this point, nothing happens (this is one of the many places across iOS 13 where the “Show Context Menu” is present on the VoiceOver rotor's Action menu but does nothing (as the new long press functionality is not available on the UI elements concerned).

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The KeyPad used to enter or edit a SIM PIN in Settings>Phone>SIM PIN is completely inaccessible with VoiceOver.

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In Mail, the mark read/unread flags, set by rotor actions, do not stick. Move away from the folder or the Mail app, and the flags will have reverted to their previous state when you return.

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  1. Ensure that VoiceOver is enabled.
  2. Open the native Mail app.
  3. Double-tap on the compose button.
  4. Place VoiceOver focus in to the body field.
  5. Type some text.
  6. With VoiceOver focus still in the body field, check to make sure that the VoiceOver rotor is set to its Actions menu.
  7. Flick up with 1 finger repeatedly to move through all items available in the Actions menu.

You should find that Misspelled Words is not present, whereas it has been in the past.

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In some apps this feature never appears; while in others its behavior is inconsistent.

In the case of Safari, this option appears to never be available when entering text in to textfields on web pages.

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When viewing a conversation in Mail with VoiceOver enabled, the misspelled words rotor is present but has no purpose in this instance

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The Misspelled Words rotor option is missing when composing a new message in the Mail app.

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Though the Misspelled Words rotor option is present, it is not possible to flick up and down to jump between misspelled words. This was briefly fixed in iOS 13.4.

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When in a text field in Safari, the VoiceOver rotor's Action menu contains the Misspelled Words item. However, if accessed, it does not actually work - in that it does not locate misspelled words.

This means that VoiceOver users might falsely believe that there are no misspelled words.

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In the native iOS weather app, When rain or snow are coming in the next hour, a minute-by-minute precipitation chart appears at the top of the screen (U.S. and UK only).

Currently, VoiceOver only speaks the axis labels of this chart (Now, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, and 50 minutes). The amount of rain or snow expected for each of these intervals is not spoken by VoiceOver.

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When a timer is running, it is shown as a Live Activity in the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. When this is expanded, one of the available buttons is to pause/resume the timer. This button is missing a label for VoiceOver users.

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The ‘Radio’ tab in the native Music app contains some graphical UI elements which are not recognized by VoiceOver and can interfere with the movement of VoiceOver focus when swiping through the contents of this tab.

This behaviour may understandably have you assume that there is nothing more on this screen, when in fact there is.

Additionally, you are likely to encounter a number of “Play” and “Schedule” buttons on this tab, where the UI element they are associated with is not recognized or spoken by VoiceOver.

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In Settings > iCloud > Storage > Buy More Storage, a two-finger scrub fails to activate the Back button.