Every time I go onto an app or website, it is very slow and sometimes unresponsive. I have to close the app and reopen it several times just to get what I need done. Please fix this bug right away?

Given the new Voice Control natural language enhancements, is there any change in guidance for how developers use accessibilitylnputLabels? Does providing robust utterance coverage across our views still help tune the new system's NLU?

I have been trying for 7 months to speak to someone at Apple about their accessibility work for my job as assistive technology advisor. I haven’t been able to speak to anyone regarding this despite emailing a number of different departments and people at Apple. Other tech firms have been happy to become involved, can anyone help?

After updating to the iOS 26 Beta version, the screenshot option within the AssistiveTouch menu has stopped working. Tapping on the "Screenshot" icon does not perform any action.

Hello, I'm having a very hard time finding where any documentation or session or any WWDC related announcement related to the FaceTime API that was mentioned in this press release last month. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/ "For sign language interpretation app developers, a new API supports users in adding a human interpreter to an ongoing FaceTime video call." Can anyone please point me in the right direction? I have searched everywhere in Developer.app, documentation released during this WWDC, and here in the Forums and have yet to find anything.

The default VoiceOver behavior is to start at the toolbar and work its way down. In some cases, this feels unintuitive to me. One example - my app persists which Tab you were last on across sessions. But on iOS, the tab bar is at the bottom. Sighted users have immediate context. I explored trying to insert a VO bit on load to announce which Tab is active, but that didn't work well and would sometimes clash with other VoiceOver elements. Any guidance here? I'm not a VoiceOver user, so please let me know if I'm trying to change a default AX behavior that shouldn't be messed with. But I want to make sure a VO user has the right context of where they're being dropped into.

Hi, I want to detect if there is a fullscreen window on each screen. _AXUIElementGetWindow and kAXFullscreenAttribute methods work, but I have to be in a non-sandbox environment to use them. Is there any other way that also works? I don't think it's enough to judge if it's fullscreen by comparing the window size to the screen size, since it doesn't work on MacBook with notch, or the menu bar is set to 'auto-hide'. Thanks.

The default VoiceOver behavior is to start at the toolbar and work its way down. In some cases, this feels unintuitive to me. One example - my app persists which Tab you were last on across sessions. But on iOS, the tab bar is at the bottom. Sighted users have immediate context. I explored trying to insert a VO bit on load to announce which Tab is active, but that didn't work well and would sometimes clash with other VoiceOver elements. Any guidance here? I'm not a VoiceOver user, so please let me know if I'm trying to change a default AX behavior that shouldn't be messed with. But I want to make sure a VO user has the right context of where they're being dropped into.

Up to iOS 18 there were many voices available on device by default including "Nicky" that I use in my app. Somewhere around iOS 18.6 or 26.0 these voices were removed and no longer included in the OS by default. This broke my app that counted on the Nicky voice being available. My only workaround is to direct my users to download the voice again by going to Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech > Voices and downloading "Nicky". I cannot simply switch to using Samantha (the only voice that is still available by default) because I have heavily customized how IPA pronunciations are tweaked to make Nicky speak Old English correctly. I tried briefly with Samantha but the results were not as good. I have 2 questions: Is there any way for me to include the "Nicky" voice in my app or for me to trigger the download from the app so I don't have to show an error and direct users through the settings app to get the voice? Are there any new features with AI voices in iOS 27 that I can use with IPA pronunciations to get them to speak possibly better than the Nicky voice? FB17834189

We are seeking guidance on the Apple-recommended way to handle aggregated accessibility labels in UIKit. When grouping elements into a single accessibility container, we need VoiceOver to read their labels with a natural structural pause, without injecting conversational grammar. SwiftUI handles this automatically and gracefully with .combine, but we need the endorsed UIKit equivalent for complex custom views. The Problem When manually aggregating child labels into a parent's accessibilityLabel in UIKit, VoiceOver behaves inconsistently in non-Latin scripts. For example, if we simply join the strings with a Latin comma (", "), VoiceOver ignores the separator in languages like Arabic or Japanese, reading the aggregated labels as a confusing run-on sentence. What we have considered and tried: NSListFormatter: While it correctly localizes separators, it inappropriately injects list grammar (e.g., adding "and" before the final item). Since our UI elements are merely spatially grouped on the screen and do not form a grammatical sentence, this confuses users. Hardcoded punctuation (e.g., Latin commas): Works fine for English, but fails to trigger VoiceOver pauses in non-Latin scripts as mentioned above. Double Line Break (\n\n): We found that joining strings with a double line break universally forces a hard stop and structural pause across all languages without injecting grammar. However, we have received community feedback suggesting that using newlines might cause poor formatting or UX issues on Braille displays. Our Questions: Is there an Apple-endorsed native approach to replicate SwiftUI's .combine behavior in UIKit that avoids injecting conversational grammar? If we must join the strings manually, is using a double line break (\n\n) considered safe and acceptable for Braille display users? Or is it better practice to manually map and apply localized commas? Any guidance from the Accessibility Technologies team or developers who have tackled this in large-scale UIKit apps would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

For games that share a common codebase with multiple targets, what would be the recommended way to handle accessibility? For example an iOS game with a WatchOS companion that can played standalone. Any word how Voice Control will affect this combination? For iOS 26, I've had to handle some aspects of accessibility separately and needed to separate out some of shared codebase into each target.

I've found myself chasing my tail trying to programmatically adjust my .navigationTitle in SwiftUI so it doesn't get truncated given various dynamic type classes mixed with various device widths... Any guidance here on how to think about adjusting Ul copy based on AX type size constraints?

For example, our app uses an info icon in many places to open modals that explain useful terms or provide disclosures. For Voice Control it feels most natural to have users trigger it with a label like "info" as that matches the icon on-screen but for Voice Over "info" sometimes feels too vague and something like "Open terms to know" would provide more context. Is this just a good example of the use-case for accessibilityInputLabels so that we can have a more descriptive value for Voice Over and also provide a more natural label for Voice Control? Or should we re-think how to label these in a way that is consistent for both technologies?

When VoiceOver is enabled, it sometimes reads auto-generated image descriptions such as 'a blue and white logo on a white background' or 'warning icon, image error' instead of the custom accessibilityLabel we've set on the icons. How can we prevent VoiceOver from reading these image-specific descriptions and ensure it only reads our custom labels? Just like UIAccessibility.isVoiceOverRunning lets us check if VoiceOver is active, is there an equivalent API to detect whether Voice Control is currently enabled?

The existing API is roughly imported into Swift and pretty thorny. Some of this can be addressed with a wrapper library but some of it is much more difficult, like addressing AXObserver not having a finished event or callback to signify when it would be safe to do cleanup in a concurrent environment. A Swift overlay could be a great opportunity to make third part assistive tech more accessible.

Is it possible to use SSML to provide a VO string in multiple languages. For instance, a label in English, but you want it to speak a phrase within that sentence in Spanish for a proper noun.

When I try to inspect elements in the device hub, only the full window (group) is selectable. Am I doing it wrong? (FB22976268)

For example, we have a "card view" that navigates to a comprehensive detail screen... But there's an ellipsis on the card as well, that shows a menu of quick actions. We need both to be tappable. (SwiftUI project)

I have enabled "Voice Over" in the Device -> Accessibility Menu of the Device Hub, but I hear no Output. I was expecting Voice Over to be active when this option is selected. Running Xc 27 on MacOS 26.5. Do I maybe need to be on MacOS 27?

for example: Our designers want our "Disclosures/Legal" info icon, to be 4px from the text. So we end up needing to "hack" around the view, to make the info tap target exist "over" the text. without any hacks, if we use a 20x20 icon + 4 padding, the tap target is only 28px wide. the "hack" in question, usually involves adding paddings + inverted (negative) padding, to increase the tap target, without affecting layout