I've come across an annoying bug which I'd like to know if other people have come across. My phone crashed today when I was making a call. I tried ending the call but it wouldn't let me. VoiceOver got deactivated and I couldn't start it up using the triple click of the home button. It reset the VoiceOver settings to the default ones when I finally got it talking again with sighted assistance. I'm using IOS6 and Iphone 4s. This is the first time this has happened but it is v annoying especially as I was travelling outside when this happened.
iOS and iPadOS
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Hello everyone!
I updated to iOS 11.1 yesterday and it’s basically been a mess ever since. I can’t get voiceover to read anything! It lags, maybe reads the first line of whatever I’m trying to read, and promptly crashes the app. This has happened with Outlook, Safari, email, and settings so far. I’m using an iPhone 6 but this is also happening on my iPad 2. Turning voiceover off hasn’t changed anything and apps still crash even after it’s off. Is there anything I can do about this problem? Thanks for any help!
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Hello Apple Viz community,
Ever since I got my iPhone 6, I've been having frequent voiceover crashes when browsing web pages on safari and when reading texts continuously with VoiceOver. Has anyone been experiencing similar issues and if so, any suggestions for a solution?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
I've just had Voiceover crash whilst using the BBC Iplayer app and I've had to use Itunes to get it to speak again. Does anyone know how to exit a program once you've listened to it on Iplayer? VO won't let me navigate around the screen.
Anyway, I exited voiceover with the triple click of the home key but I was unable to restart voiceover again by tripple pressing the home key again.
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I couldn't find another post talking about this bug, so I decided to create a topic. Anyone else experiencing this? It happens frequently. Voiceover stopping and restarting on it's own. This is especially annoying while typing or swiping through apps. I'm on an iPhone 13. Hoping this gets fixed because it's awful. Only started happening after the update.
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With the popularity of audio input interfaces, like the Tascam IM2 and IXJ2, that also takeover iOS audio output in less headphones are availible, Voiceover Custem VibraLerts could be very helpful. Of course, other uses could also be found for the VibraLert, givin various types of situations.
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When browsing over something like a newsfeed, which has a title, time, byline, content, and maybe some other controls such as Like or Comment, do you prefer that VoiceOver read out each element separately? Or would you prefer the whole item to be read aloud and the possible actions be put in "Actions Available"?
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If image description is on, VoiceOver seems to treat text fields or table cells that contain a single character as though it is an image, and provides a spurious description of it. For example, if I encounter a table cell containing the single character "1", VoiceOver may say "one straw drinking". I've reported this to Apple; has anyone else encountered this?
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In What's app, when I select an audio message to be played, voiceover attempts to describe the image after I double tap, such as "Possible person, possible text"
This causes the beginning of the message to be unintelligible because voiceover is stepping on it.
The workaround for me is to stop speech, then double tap, but surely there is a more elegant way.
I made sure image descriptions was off in voiceover settings, but no dice.
Any suggestions?
Thanks much.
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Hi.
I can't find any documentation for voice over in ios.
I can find osx docs but not ios.
can you help me with this?
/Kristoffer
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Suppose you wish to share a photo and are searching for the desired option in the share menu, or you have a shortcut set to bring up a dialogue box and prompt you to make a selection. There should be other similar instances where VoiceOver fails to distinguish the popup window from the main window, but these are two that I can think of for now. I don't know about VoiceOver on MacOS or iPadOS, but apparently we need better object navigation for VoiceOver like that of NVDA for all Apple operating systems. Does the iPad differ from the iPhone in that respect?
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Someone I know has court and the documents on the website are in PDF.aspx format. VoiceOver doesn’t read this format and image explorer only reads a little bit. Is there a way VoiceOver can read this type of format?
Thanks
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I have a new iPhone SE three running iOS 15.5. When I turn on my phone every time the screen curtain comes on VoiceOver does not come back on. As you have to enter a password to unlock the phone I’m not able to unlock it anymore. I cannot turn on voiceover with Siri or the home button before unlocking and VoiceOver does not turn on on the lock screen when the phone restarts.
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Is anyone having trouble with voiceover not reading messages when the iphone is in locked status? I get an alert that I have a message, but the message is no longer read. The messappears in the middle of the screen but I have to tap on the alert before voice over will read the message to me. If no one else is having this problem, what can I do to resolve this?
Thank you
Tanya
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Hi,
I just realized that one of the reasons that I don't use Microsoft Word on my iPhone is that when I format text for sighted people, that VoiceOver does not speak the styles and font information, such as bold and italic. On the PC, with a more robust screen reader, such as NVDA, you can set it to read the names of Word styles, as you come across them, which gives you a better idea of the structure of your document.
I hope I'm missing something here.
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Hi all,
In my iPhone6 the Level App which is on the second page of the Compass App in the Extras folder, doesn't work with Voiceover.
The problem is with Voiceover not announcing automatically the level angle changes.
In the Compass App it does work.
BTW, I reported this to Apple several times and was told that it will be addressed in the next iOS release, but after several updates, it is still not fixed.
Has anyone used and noticed this bug?
Thanks
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I've been using my new iphone since Friday and love it. Without notice though, my voiceover has suddenly begun dropping in volume when I'm typing. More I slide around on the keyboard the lower the volume becomes. Any thoughts about what setting I must have changed would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I’ve got an iPhone SE, latest generation, and my phone recently received the latest update to iOS 16.6. I didn’t notice this until just now, and the update took place several days ago, so it could be coincidental, but I’m experiencing a pretty serious problem in the iMessages app with voiceover.
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Hi. I recently got a new iPhone 11 Pro for Christmas. I have been having issues where it will speak in a different language and I'm not able to perform the two-finger scrub to go back. Then after the iPhone unlocks and I continue setup it sasys, "Hello) in English but then I eventually hear the message "Swipe up to open", but I am not aboe to swipe up with VoiceOver on. I have to turn VoiceOver off and get sighted help to swipe. I then turn VoiceOver back on.
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Hi. I'm using iPhone 5 with Voice over. The speed for VO on my phone is fastest 100 percent. The little bit problem I've been frustrated for is every time I'll write sms message, Facebook post etc, VO sounds in reapiting after each spelling. Why does it that? for example write the spell A, then I can hear that VO also repeat the same, maybe it sounds that VO is hanging up.
I've restarted my iPhone now and then, and also VO by tripple-click at home-button but the problem is continuetly that same.
Help me!