Ok I've posted about this before and got little to no help. It might have not been clear what I was trying to explain so let me try step by step. This morning I had fifteen updates available. I triple tapped, flicked and double tapped on "updates". Then I swiped down the screen, hearing, "add money to account," Personalized recommendations, followed by a right arrow. Then I hear available updates, then update all, but it's not a button. If I tap it, I'm put into one of the updates and I can update only one app. I backed out and tried again. This time I heard update all, then an unlabled button. I pressed it, so I'll go check on the progress now. No one else is having a strange issue trying to update apps? I'm on IOs 16.1 with an iPhone 12. Maybe I'll demonstrate it with someone via zoom or something but it's really making me crazy. I just want to keep apps up to date. Edit, I managed to updat them, I just don't understand the idea behind it. Hope i was a bit more clear.
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Odd, I'm not having the…
Odd, I'm not having the issue, I just explore to the update heading then swipe right to update all, 25, and hit it, it then dimms out and just works
Screen Recognition
Make sure you didn't toggle on screen recognition. From your description, that sounds about right for it to be on.
Screen recognition makes me crazy!
Oh, pesky screen recognition, now is removed from my rotor to prevent accidentally toggling it, I wouldn't either be surprised if this was the cause! For me it was right next to the BSI toggle so whenever I used BSI it would flip to Screen Recognition! Now I have figured out how to turn BSI on without the rotor (five finger double-tap) and removed Screen Rec from the rotor, but man, yes! Screen rec making the app store funky—The reason? Simple: It can be used to make previously inaccessibile apps good and well with VO but could make previously accessible ones inaccessible because it reads whats actually on the screen, not what is programmed for vo users. Very handy for reading long texts only to be found on inaccessible apps, not handy for apps that are you scrolling through a lot of buttons and trying to activate it. My recommendation: Reorder it so it's not next to BSI if you have them both in the rotor, or just delete it if you're not planning on using it. HTH
Definitely screen recognition
It looks like you have absolutely triggered screen recognition, to turn off screen recognition, open the app that you have screen recognition on which for example this is the App Store, perform a rotate clockwise or counter clockwise until you hear screen recognition, flick up or down to turn it off, you’ll hear off, and everything should be normal again
Thx but no
I appreciate everyone's comments but no, screen recognition is absolutely not on. I'm a Murphy for a reason, meaning I get the what the hell? type of stuff all the time I guess I'll wait to see what's up for 16.2
Odd indeed.
I just tried for the first time in forever turning screen rec on in the Appstore and not much changed. Most built-in ios apps don't really react to screen rec it seems, the only thing remaining bothersome of screen rec in builtin apps is the mushiness of VO haptics, and the much lower clicks which I do not like at all, also a good way to tell if Screen Rec is on if anyone else has seen it. Tried on both my ios devices and all is well, so yes probably wait for 16.2, which may resolve it, especially because it reboots the phone, but if you really can't stand it just reboot the phone now—Or better yet, disable the appstore via the appswitcher first, and see if that helps.
Updates.
You can turn on Automatic Updates that will, like it says, do this automatically for you.