Speak Screen gesture not working

I am testing the accessibility feature available in the Settings app called "Speak Screen". The help text in the Setting app states that swiping down with two fingers will cause the screen content to be spoken. However, I've been unable to get this feature to work. Every time I try the double finger swipe down, it behaves the same as the single finger swipe down gesture. Usually this manifests as making scroll views bounce.

I've tried toggling the feature on and off, turning off Reachability, and rebooting my phone, but I can't get the speak screen gesture to work. If I access the speak screen feature from the "Speech Controller" button, then the screens content is spoken, as expected, so I know the feature is enabled. It's just the gesture that doesn't work.

Is there something else I need to do to get this gesture to work? I don't want to tell my users to turn this feature on if I can't verify that the gesture will work with my app.

Thanks for writing about your experience, that certainly does not sound right to me, and I'd like to take a closer look. As with your other post, please file a bug report using the Feedback Assistant tool to upload additional information about your issue including logs from the device, https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

Reply here with the Feedback ID and I can take a look.

Speak Screen gesture not working
 
 
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