Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but it turns out in the second beta of iOS 17 voiceover has a new haptic feedback.
I’ve noticed it when scrolling across lists, dragging down the notification centre and going back to the home screen. Just feels like it makes iOS that little bit more interactive.
By danno5, 22 June, 2023
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Evet
I noticed this feature too, it feels pretty good.
iOS 13
I don’t use haptics, so unless something has changed, haptic feedback has been available ever since iOS 13
I stand corrected.
After turning on haptics, I noticed that there were indeed more haptics. Going into the sounds reveals that there are indeed a few more sounds with haptics on them. Disregard my last comment.
Progress Updates
Don't know if this is the right place to post that but I've reported a suggestion to Apple three times. Don't you think it'd be great to have audio or haptic feedback or speech to indicate progress updates with adjustable intervals and beeps rising in pitch like in NVDA? I discussed that in more detail in the relevant thread.
As long as there's a toggle for off audio
Gimme haptics and that's it. Never liked the NVDA stuff, especially when you were downloading it, it sounded like a lifesupport machine. annoying for me lol.
Increasing the number of…
Increasing the number of ways we can interact with our devices and the ability to customise that is awesome. It's something that old apple was against with its one size fits all approach. It's great to see more personalisation coming to our devices.
Are these new haptics on the SE
Ari haptics on the SE 2022
Why wouldn't they be?
It would make sense the phone model is not a factor in this case. I'd still wait for a couple of public betas for you since technology can be finicky and there might be bugs that would drive you crazy. As such, the software keyboard speaking every letter is completely bugging me. i can not wait for beta three.
Siobhan
I will wait for beta 4. Will see!!!
Just toggle audio off if you don't like it that way
Well, just set sound to off for progress announcements and done. This you can do for almost everything so you may be right about how NVDA's progress announcements sound but the gradually rising pitch is still great to indicate how much is completed. So I would call it a fairly functional audio representation of a progress bar.
Quick responses
First, yes there should be no reason that it’s not on the SE. Also, yeah thanks to that I've completely turned off the sounds now, I have gone between on and off for a while but don't have them now. The keyboard issue is annoying as well, I agree. The annoying part is the lack of direct touch working on the keyboard, I have submitted this to Apple. If bugs annoy you, or you struggle to go back, do not install yet, personally for me it has been stable, but like any beta there are little bugs dotted around, and for some few can turn into a combined issue, unless you know what you're getting into and you're ready, hold off.