A common UI idiom in Apple's first party iOS apps is a circle icon with three dots in the upper right of the screen. This serves as a pop-up menu of more options. Some examples include:
Apple Music, Library tab
Photos, Album view
Reminders
In all these cases, VoiceOver reads this element as "More, Button".
In my SwiftUI app, I've implemented a visually identical button.
Menu {
// Button for Menu Item 1
// Button for Menu Item 2
// ...
} label: {
Image(systemName: "ellipsis.circle")
.accessibilityHidden(true)
}
.accessibilityLabel("More")
However, the VoiceOver output in my app is much more verbose. It speaks "More, Button, Pop Up Button, Double Tap To Activate The Picker". Any guidance on how to make this more concise in line with the apps mentioned above?
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In our application we are using UITableView for data population and that TableView cell contains a button. When we are enabling full keyboard access that time only TableView cell is focusing not the button. We need to focus on cell and button differently.
Is it possible to position windows on the floor by changing some setting? Currently, they cannot be placed on the floor due to drag limitations.
Voice Control Disabling System Services After Reboot
I recently learned from Apple Accessibility Support that the issue I’m experiencing with Voice Control is now affecting multiple users. When I first reported the problem, I appeared to be the first case—what you might call “patient zero.” I have provided extensive feedback and system logs, but now that the issue is more widespread, I have been told that I will not be informed of the cause or notified directly when a fix is found. Instead, updates will be released as solutions are identified, and support staff will not necessarily know the details of the underlying problem.
To summarize my experience: after enabling Voice Control and rebooting my MacBook Pro (14.2-inch, M4 chip), critical Apple system services—including FaceTime, Apple Music, and News—stop functioning. Dictation remains available, but it is not as accurate or effective for my needs as Voice Control. I rely on these accessibility features daily due to my disability and cerebral palsy, and this issue has persisted for over five months.
I have always valued contributing to the developer program and supporting Apple’s efforts to improve accessibility. However, I find it discouraging that there is no clear communication about the status of this issue or its resolution. My theory is that there may be a hardware interaction—perhaps between the neural engine and the new Wi-Fi chip—rather than a purely software problem.
I understand that some information may not be immediately available, but I believe that users who rely on accessibility features should be kept informed about major issues and their progress toward resolution. I appreciate the dedication of the accessibility and development teams, and I want to continue supporting Apple’s mission of inclusion. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Donald Spencer Kirby
Dayton, Ohio
Even though navigationBarBackButtonHidden is set, the back button appears when you swipe slightly.
Topic:
Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General
Hello,
I’m in the process of enrolling my business (Carzo Rent A Car, Prishtine, Kosovo) in the Apple Developer Program, but I have been waiting for my D-U-N-S number to be issued.
I submitted the request to Dun & Bradstreet on July 28, 2025 (Case #9142648) and have only received a system-generated email with a tracking ID (#9086421). There has been no further update.
My questions are:
Is there a way for Apple to expedite or provisionally approve my enrollment while the D-U-N-S number is pending?
How long does Apple typically wait for D&B updates before the enrollment is affected?
Are there any alternative steps I can take to avoid further delays?
Thank you for your guidance.
Topic:
Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General
Hello everyone,
I’d like to report an issue I’ve encountered when using a Bluetooth mouse together with AssistiveTouch on iPhone running iOS 16.5.
This has also been reported via Feedback Assistant with
Feedback ID: FB17806167
Description:
When using a Bluetooth mouse together with AssistiveTouch on iPhone (iOS), the pointer behaves incorrectly in landscape orientation.
Specifically:
The pointer cannot move past the center of the screen
Horizontal and vertical (X/Y) movements appear to be swapped or misaligned
Natural movement of the pointer is not possible
It seems as if the internal coordinate mapping remains locked in portrait orientation, even when the device is physically rotated to landscape.
This issue occurs system-wide, regardless of the current app. It is observable in Settings, on the Home screen, and in third-party apps.
Steps to Reproduce:
Enable AssistiveTouch
Connect a Bluetooth mouse to the iPhone
Rotate the device to landscape orientation
Try moving the mouse pointer across the screen
→ Notice that:
Pointer cannot move past the center
Horizontal/vertical input is interpreted incorrectly (as if still in portrait)
Expected Behavior:
The mouse pointer should move across the entire screen correctly, regardless of device orientation.
Actual Behavior:
In landscape orientation, the pointer is either restricted to part of the screen or misaligned.
It behaves as if the device is still in portrait.
Horizontal mouse movement causes vertical pointer movement, and vice versa
User experience feels broken and unintuitive
Feature Suggestion:
Please improve the synchronization between physical device orientation and AssistiveTouch pointer mapping on iOS.
I also suggest exposing AssistiveTouch orientation control via a public API, so developers can help maintain consistent pointer behavior.
Thanks in advance for any insights or suggestions.
Best regards,
Jannis
At present, in iOS, if using the in-house app, there may be crashes in the new iOS 18.3 and later versions, but it works normally on other phones and the certificate is not problematic.
A total of 3 machines were found, and there was no pattern between the machines and the system, with different models and versions.
We tested it on a machine that crashes, but the app downloaded from the store doesn't. If the same app is packaged and installed directly in the development tool, it will crash. Is this related to compatibility with the new version of IOS?
Is there a solution? Do others also have relevant situations?
Topic:
Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General
When my app is in the background, I create a Live Activity through a push notification with token get from pushToStartTokenUpdates, and this process works fine. However, without opening the app, how can I retrieve the new push token for this Live Activity again and use it for subsequent updates to the Live Activity content?
Hey there! Hope you are starting the year with great joy.
My situation
I'm building a new product that is based on detecting certain text on screen in realtime. The product is only targeted for Mac and it's built with Swift
My problem
I need to get the exact position of a text element with the Apple Accessibility API but I can't figurate it out. I managed to get the AXUIElement where the text is placed but it's position is too broad and off target.
My discoveries so far
I've tried OCR but is too slow for what I'm building, so the only possible way I can think of is with the Accessibility API.
Thank you in advanced.
Say I have a UI element that moves on the screen. Is it possible to update its accessibility frame as it moves while VoiceOver is focused on it? From my tests, VoiceOver ignores UIAccessibilityLayoutChangedNotification if it's sent repeatedly in a short period of time on iOS, while sending NSAccessibilityLayoutChangedNotification on macOS triggers VoiceOver to reannounce the focused element repeatedly.
I’m currently focused on an element at the bottom of the screen. What is the proper way to quickly navigate to the top element? By default, there’s a four-finger single tap to move to the first element, but should I use the Rotor action instead to focus on the element I need?
For example, in the Contacts app while adding a new contact, if I enter a value in a field at the bottom, there’s no quick way to directly save the contact. I have to manually navigate all the way to the top to tap the Done button, which feels a bit inconvenient.
Is there a better way to handle this using VoiceOver?
I bought a new iPhone 16 recently and connected with my car (Hyundai Venue) I couldn't able to see WhatsApp. I researched and found some forum, but the suggested steps are not workable or not suitable for latest iOS version.
I have updated iOS and WhatsApp, nothing helped to resolve.
Note: Earlier I was used Pixel phone I can able to see Whatsapp and I can make a call
}
// Start listening to the microphone
public void StartListening()
{
if (!isListening)
{
#if UNITY_IOS || UNITY_TVOS
microphoneInput = Microphone.Start(null, true, 10, 44100);
#else
try
{
microphoneInput = Microphone.Start(null, true, 10, 16000); // Use 16,000 Hz instead of 44,100
if (microphoneInput == null)
{
microphoneInput = Microphone.Start(null, true, 10, AudioSettings.outputSampleRate);
}
#endif
isListening = true;
Debug.Log(Microphone.devices.Length + " Started listening...");
debugText.text = Microphone.devices.Length + "- Started listening...";
}
catch (System.Exception e)
{
Debug.LogError($"Starting microphone failed: {e.Message}");
debugText.text = $"Starting microphone failed: {e.Message}";
}
}
}
void Update()
{
if (isListening && microphoneInput != null)
{
// Analyze the audio for voice activity
float volume = GetAverageVolume();
if (volume > detectionThreshold)
{
Debug.Log("User is speaking!");
lastVoiceTime = Time.time;
SoundDetected = true;
if (Time.time - lastVoiceTime > silenceDuration)
{
Debug.Log("User is silent.");
debugText.text = volume.ToString() + " - User is silent.";
}
slider.value = volume;
}
}
}
private float GetAverageVolume()
{
float[] samples = new float[128];
microphoneInput.GetData(samples, Microphone.GetPosition(null));
float sum = 0f;
foreach (float sample in samples)
{
sum += Mathf.Abs(sample);
}
return sum / samples.Length;
}
Problem:
When I build and run the app from Xcode, the microphone works fine, and I receive input. However, when running the app normally (outside of Xcode), I can’t seem to access the microphone. The debug logs indicate no microphone is detected.
Question:
Is there any additional configuration I need to do for the microphone to work in a normal (non-Xcode) run on Vision Pro? Or any common issues that could be causing the microphone access to fail in this scenario?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Best,
Siddharth
有在Info.plist配置权限使用说明(NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription),App本地网络权限也已经打开,但App请求局域网设备接口时,仍返回异常:
Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=50, NSUnderlyingError=0x302d79d40 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1009 "(null)" UserInfo={_NSURLErrorNWPathKey=unsatisfied (Local network prohibited), interface: en0[802.11], ipv4, uses wifi, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=50, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=1}}, _NSURLErrorFailingURLSessionTaskErrorKey=LocalDataTask .<1>, _NSURLErrorRelatedURLSessionTaskErrorKey=(
"LocalDataTask .<1>"
), NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline., NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://192.168.1.1:80/xxx, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://192.168.1.1:80/xxx, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=1}
Topic:
Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General
if you are on the tik tok website on safari, you are able to view a video that originally brought you to the website the from the search log, but if you want to click on another video listed on the website, it claims you need to use the app to go farther, and upon proceeding it just brings you to the App Store regardless if you have the app already or not , and you are unable to view the video displayed on the website without searching for it separately on the app.
Topic:
Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General
curl -o actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.321.0/actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz echo "b2c91416b3e4d579ae69fc2c381fc50dbda13f1b3fcc283187e2c75d1b173072 actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c tar xzf ./actions-runner-osx-x64-2.321.0.tar.gz ./config.sh --url https://github.com/funds123/tpsdk --token BMOPQPZNQKB57MXE4BDDKKTHMTHJO ./run.sh
Save this configuration as com.github.actions.runner.plist in
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Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General
The issue is, I cannot auto acquire bluetooth keyboard focus in PHPickerViewController after enabling 'Full Keyboard Access' in my IPhone 14 with iOS version 18.3.1. The keyboard focus in PHPickerViewController will show, however, after I tapped on the blank space of the PHPickerViewController. How to make the focus on at the first place then?
I'm using UINavigationController and calling setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: false). Then I use this controller to present PHPickerViewController using some configuration setup below.
self.configuration = PHPickerConfiguration()
configuration.filter = .any(of: filters)
configuration.selectionLimit = selectionLimit
if #available(iOS 15.0, *), allowOrdering {
configuration.selection = .ordered
}
configuration.preferredAssetRepresentationMode = .current
Finally I set the delegate to PHPickerViewController and call UINavigationController.present(PHPickerViewController, animated: true) to render it.
Also I notice animation showing in first video then disappear.
Dear Team,
We are stuck in membership enrollment process at the purchase stage. We enter the payment details, get the message that our purchase will be completed in 48 hours, but after some time, it reverts back to the same stage of purchase your membership without any error or information. This has happened for 3-4 times till now.
Kindly let us know how to resolve this issue and move forward with the enrollment process.
Thanks.
I did the 18.3 update over the weekend and every contact and their information (family names, addresses, photos etc) that was added to my phone over the last year is completely gone. I’ve spent hours on the phone with Apple and their “top” senior account employees with no resolution. I am told my case has been escalated to engineering and they will get back to me in one week. I have zero confidence my issue will be resolved. I’ve gone over and over every action done over the weekend and the only thing I did was erase some emails and do the update. There has to be a way they can see every action made on my phone to find the issue.
Topic:
Accessibility & Inclusion
SubTopic:
General