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iOS 7.1, should I update?

By Josh C., 12 March, 2014

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iOS and iPadOS
I just got an alert on my iPhone today that iOS 7.1 is now available. Should I update or not?

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VoiceOver Fixes and Bugs List

By Michael Hansen

9 years 6 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
Hello Josh, Whether to update or not is very much a personal decision. I personally updated to iOS 7.1 and have no regrets. However, there are some bugs that you might wish to know about before updating. To help inform your decision as to whether to update your devices to iOS 7.1, you may wish to read our list of accessibility improvements and bugs for iOS 7.1. It is available at http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple/whats-new-and-changed-blind-and-low-vision-users-ios-71.

not if you jailbreak

By Jessica Brown

9 years 6 months ago

Please note that if you are jailbroaken or plan on jailbreaking, do not update to iOS 7.1, because iOS 7.1 patches the iOS 7 jailbreak. So you can not jailbreak on iOS 7.1. Just wait until they update the jailbreak to work with iOS 7.1. If you are not jailbroaken and do not plan on jailbreaking, you do not need to worry about this.

my opinion

By Jesse Tregarthen

9 years 6 months ago

Like Michael said, it is a personal choice but I like it so far. It gets rid of that bug where VO reads "screen locked" twice which was very annoying when I was listening to music.

My opinion

By Khalfan Bin Dhaher

9 years 6 months ago

If you're using a second language with VoiceOver I highly recommend you to stay with iOS 7.0.6. This feature doesn't work well in iOS 7.1.

IiOS7.1

By Isaac Hebert (not verified)

9 years 6 months ago

Yes I think you should update but be ware there is a few bugs such as vo saying app switcher when closing the app switcher after closing apps.

Second language and language detection

By Josh C.

9 years 6 months ago

In reply to IiOS7.1 by Isaac Hebert (not verified)

It looks like I'll be staying with iOS 7.0.6 for now, because of the second language and language detection bugs in iOS 7.1, which are not present in 7.0.6. I plan on studying a Bible which is in both Greek and English, and I need VoiceOver to read the Greek when it detects it, like it does in 7.0.6. Hopefully they fix this serious accessibility issue in the next update.

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