iOS and iPadOS

Good afternoon everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. I was wanting to start messing around with a Shortcuts app, and have listened to some of the podcasts that have been produced for shortcuts, I’m having some issues making shortcuts even work for me. for instance, I downloaded one to just play a playlist, I got it from the gallery and it worked fine. But I wanted to make some modifications to it. For instance, I wanted to be able to instead of simply just play the playlist, make it actually shuffle the playlist. And I’d like to start learning how to create some shortcuts on my own.

Hi:
I have a new Iphone 8 running the latest IOS. I am wondering if I can use the new Siri voice for the voiceover voice? If so, how Do I go about it? Thanks.
P.S. I would like to use the Siri voice because the default voiceover voice sounds muffled. It was sounding fine for the first few hours I had the phone and then it changed. I don't know what happened to change the voice.
Nancy

I am a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist. I have an iPhone 16 that I use with students. I should (I believe) be able to use Siri to get exact address to the question "Where am I?" Instead, it gives me my city and state only. This is a great feature for students who are blind or low vision and need extra help with orientation or to confirm their location. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get Siri to give me an exact address when asked, I would truly appreciate it! I do have my location turned on. Thank you in advance!

Has anyone had success using Siri on the locked screen to reply to group text messages?

Ever since updating to iOS 12, when I get a message on the locked screen and ask Siri to "reply to text", Siri asks "To whom do you want to reply?" and expects me to enumerate each person to whom the original group message was sent. I have tried saying things like "reply to group", "reply to everyone", "reply all", etc., but Siri still wants me to enumerate each recipient.

I have a question for you all regarding anyone who has a siri voice as their default VoiceOver voice and what your experience was like when you updated to 18.1, or even iOs 18.

I saw another post on a social media platform where someone updated to iOS 18.1 and had VoiceOver shut off when the update was complete and they had to have assistance entering their passcode. This happened to me a long time ago, so I remember the struggle and frustration.

Hello. I have a question for those who use new Apple-made Siri voices with VoiceOver on Mac or iOS device. Do you find these voices far more hard, illegible for listening on a high speed (seventy percents and higher)? I'm a Russian speaker and I definitely do.

Hi all. New iPhone user here. Only had an iPhone for about 2 months. I'm trying to play King of Dragon Pass but having major trouble with sliders. At one point in the tutorial, it asks you to adjust one of the sliders to 10. It goes up to a few hundred. I know how to swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the slider, but I can't seem to get it where I want it. Is there a way to pick an exact value on a slider, or to adjust it in small increments? I have a Bluetooth keyboard if that will help somehow. Thanks.

Hello apple Vis,
Does anyone have any suggestions for using sling TV with VoiceOver? I switched from Direct TV now to Sling Tv, because it supports more people streaming at once, and prices seem to be a better rate.
Thanks in advance.
Chuck

Hi,
I've just downloaded Spotify onto my iPhone and started to experiment with the free version to see what it's like and if I'll be able to use it.
I found a few issues with VoiceOver and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced them or has a possible way to work around these issues. They are as follows:
When Playing the song, I can't seem to find the next track buttons.

Hi.

So, I have a square card reader that connects to my phone using the lightning port, but I found voiceover doesn't read anything when the reader is connected. when I have my braille display connected, I get braille output from voiceover but not speech output. I've tried looking in the audio settings of voiceover, and there's nothing to switch the audio channels to have speech come out the speaker on the phone. I even tried connecting a pair of bluetooth headphones to see if that would work, but nothing. Is there any suggestions that might work with this?

Hello,
A friend of mine was telling me about how he manages his email, using swipe gestures.
He also informed me that there’s a way to do it with VoiceOver.
However, he couldn’t remember what the equivalent gestures for VoiceOver were, or where to find them online.
Can anyone assist?
Thanks.

I currently have an iPhone 6s plus running iOS 9.2. I use amazon music and pandora to stream music from my iPhone and before I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 I was able to go:
Hey Syri
wait a second.... then ask "what song is this?"
a few seconds later he would answer with something like "I believe this is Electrify by the Beastie Boys."
Now, since I have upgraded to 9.2 when I go:
Hey Syri
I wait a few seconds.... then ask "what song is this?"

I'm using ipod touch 4th gen, and can't seem to get this app to work.
I'm getting no speech, when i walk around the room, and pointting at thing.

I have just discovered that you can add to a text message whilst using Siri. E.g. After you dictate a message and Siri asks: “ready to send it?” Say: “Add”, or “add to it” and both parts will be read back. You can then add again before sending of course. Is this a new feature?
No one that I have told has been aware of it and Siri doesn’t mention it in the hints. It does make using Siri much more of a relaxing experience as you don’t have to get it perfect at the first try.