User is sometimes unable to reach notifications with VoiceOver

Category
VoiceOver Announcements/Feedback
Severity
Moderate

Description

On occasions, VoiceOver does not locate notifications that are visually available to find.
Typically, the 'Show notifications' button is present, but on these intermittent occasions, selecting it fails to reveal the notifications, and does nothing.
On some rare occasions, VoiceOver gives no indication at all of notifications being present, but there is a visual indicator.

Steps to reproduce

Enable VoiceOver.
Go to the Lock Screen or Notification Centre when there have been some notifications.
The issue is intermittent, but it appears that it may happen particularly with notifications that have been present for some time.

Bug First Encountered

iOS/iPadOS 27.0

Device(s) bug has been encountered on

iPhone

How often the bug occurs

Sometimes

Workaround

When the "Show Notifications" button is present, but selecting it has no effect, double tap and hold on it, and swipe up.
This will reveal the notifications.

Apple feedback #

FB23455165

Status

Active

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