When pressing space with dots 2-3 or space with dots 5-6, the rotor item announced is not displayed on the Monarch

Description

VoiceOver Announcements/flash messages simply do not appear on the display. They work fine with other devices and speech.

Steps to reproduce

Press space with dots 2-3 or space with dots 5-6. Though the user will hear the rotor change elements, no braille feedback is provided.

Bug First Encountered

iOS/iPadOS 26.1

Device(s) bug has been encountered on

iPhone

How often the bug occurs

Always

Workaround

None if you don't have the ability to understand speech

Apple feedback #

FB21054169

Status

Active

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Comments

wow, the $23000 braille display doesn't work properly

first how did anyone get there hands on this thing and why does it exist? it sucks that it doesn't even work properly but at least it's sorta supported on IOS

Monarch and iOS

I wasn't aware it is possible to connect Monarch to iPhone for normal braille? How did you get this to work? USB? Bluetooth?