Here's another discussion question! Because every time I make a change to any of my Apple devices, I always get overly excited about it and it feels brand new.
In VoiceOver sounds and haptics, how do you all have yours customized?
I have haptics on but turned sounds off. I turned them off on my Mac as well. It just gets annoying after a while, especially if you're on the devices scrolling and swiping a lot like I am. I feel like it's a bit more responsive, to, especially on the watch.
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I used to have sounds turned off.
If you set up a shortcut to mute Voiceover on Mac and have sounds set to off, if you mute Voiceover and then unmute it, sounds are turned on again. I got sick of fighting with it, so I just left them on. For the phone, I had sounds turned off for a while, but I put them back recently because I find they're helpful, e.g. when swiping up from the bottom of the screen to go home or to the app switcher, I find I can do it faster because I have more feedback that the gesture has taken.
I use folders a lot. SO say I go into music and use an app, then I'm done. I want to close music and go to the app switcher to close the app I was just using. I can do the three gestures in a row faster with sounds. Up to get from the app to music, this is like the home gesture, up to close music, again the home gesture, then up to hit the app switcher.
I used to think things were more responsive without sounds. It sort of makes sense if you think the sound is a pause, i.e. the sound plays, then Voiceover speaks. I'm not sure that's what's happening and I've never taken the time to try and figure out a way to time things or whatever to see if it's actually the case that either the phone or Mac are more responsive without sounds. So I kind of figure without some kind of accurate info like that, it doesn't really matter. It's clearly not less responsive in a way that I can definitely say, "OK sounds need to go because they are totally slowing me down". If it was, I'd turn them off, obviously. So I kind of go back and forth on it. Sometimes I'll turn them off for a while, sometimes I'll leave them on.
Sounds
Have it on, helps with text, specially when I have different sounds for each person. Also haptic in my 11 watch helps. Haptic helps in the phone when I put phone facing down or silent mode. Long live cats and Alicia. Do you work for the CIA?
CiA
Unfortunately no, but that would be interesting!
I have sounds off and haptics on
Hi, I have sounds off and haptics on. I also disabled sounds for Mac as well. VO is a lot faster this way.
I left both sounds and haptics on
I leave on the sounds and haptics on both my phones. I did try with the sounds off for a while. It seemed to actually be a little bit slower. I think it was because I was so used to the feedback of the little clicks. Also, I did try turning off haptics and just using sounds, but then I kind of got used to those being there as well like I have the phone on silent mode and stuff I need to dictate things or whatever was helpful to have a haptics on for that so I just decided now I am just leaving both of them on.
My device
I used to have the VO lock sound disabled, and the little, click click click click, sound you get when you're navigating empty space. Nowadays, I have all of the VO sounds enabled, however, the, click click click, sound I mentioned above, I have disabled haptics for that. 🤷
Sounds on, haptics off
I like the sounds and feel like they give me swift and actionable feedback about where I might be navigating, though I have also tried without sounds and it was fine. I guess I just like to have that little bit of context. This is probably because I really don't like haptics. I don't know what it is, everyone else I know seems to find them useful, but I find it jarring, distracting and sometimes honestly a bit overwhelming to have my phone vibrating so much with everything I do. I guess it's supposed to feel more like buttons? But I don't need my phone to have buttons, and I feel like my battery is better when I leave them disabled, so its' audio and not tactile feedback for me! Glad they let us customize this so much to our liking and enjoying reading others' thoughts!
Same here
I also have sounds on and haptics off, as I find the sounds help to ground my environment, while the sensation of constant haptics while trying to navigate my iPhone is distracting for me. Either that or it's just what I'm used to as a longtime iOS user, going back before iPhones had Taptic engines.
I’m going to try turning off haptics
I’m going to try turning off haptics at least on my iPhone SE so it’s not my primary phone. I do kind of find it helpful on my iPhone 15 though have a vibrate ringer for example cause you wouldn’t really have that if you turn off the haptics at least that’s my understanding of it anyway. I’ll come back here and let you know how it is.
Haptics
They only work when I have silent mode on. Like it that way. Long live cats.
I turned to the haptics back on
I turned the haptics back on. I’ve had the opposite situation from some people on here. I didn’t have an iPhone that didn’t have a haptic engine. My first iPhone was an iPhone 8. So I just thought it was easier for me to have the haptics back on. I did try for a little while with just sounds though. Seems to be good for me to have tactile feedback as well as audio feedback. So I’ve left everything on and I have a haptic intensity at 100%. That’s the case for both of my device issues.