VoiceOver repeats the inserted text twice when using Voice Dictation

Category
VoiceOver Announcements/Feedback
Severity
Moderate

Description

When using Voice Dictation to enter text into a text field, VoiceOver will announce the inserted text twice after you have completed the dictation.

For example, after dictating “this is a test message“ into the body of a new email, VoiceOver will announce “Inserted this is a test message. Inserted this is a test message.”

Bug First Encountered

iOS 8.2

Device(s) bug has been encountered on

iPhone 6

How often the bug occurs

Always

Status

Fixed

Fixed In

iOS 9.0

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Comments

By elliot2012 on Friday, March 20, 2015 - 01:05

I have had this bug on my iPhone 6 since updating to iOS 8.2 earlier this week, pretty annoying

By Hubert on Friday, March 20, 2015 - 01:05

I've been having this issue on my iPhone 4S and also seen it happen on the 5S

By Roxann Pollard on Friday, March 20, 2015 - 01:05

This started when the 8.2 update was released. It appears to be affecting all iDevices.

By Mike Freeman on Friday, March 20, 2015 - 01:05

I haven't encountered this bug. Using an iPhone 5 64 gig under iOS 8.2.

By SSWFTW on Saturday, June 20, 2015 - 01:05

Never really even recognized this as a bug it's never really bothered me