I updated to iOS 13 and speak screen accessibility feature stopped working correctly

I have the same problems:

– speak screen not working at all (although most times, if I do a hard reset of the iPhone, it works again...)

– reading only some words or paragraphs, then stopping

– reading in wrong language (have to say that this used to work fine in iOS 12)

– speak screen doesn’t stop anymore, when a call is coming in - this is particularly weird and annoying

– speak screen doesn’t work anymore at all when the iPhone XR is plugged in CarPlay - also very annoying because now I have to wear AirPods in the car to listen to speak screen... this used to work very fine until iOS 13.1 I think...

Please, if anyone finds a solution, let me know!

Thanks, Thomas

I buy an iPhone because of speak screen, I have MS, my eyesight is affected on a regular basis, so I’m kind of dependent on this feature. If I have to take out a subscription to Capti, I may as well buy an Android phone!

Don’t think Apple is taking this feature serious enough. It’s not one of ice breaking feature that will convince majority of android users to switch.

I still have one of iPhone 6 on iOS 10, the speak screen function works so much better than my new iPhone 11 Pro.

Was it supposed to improve than going backward?

Ive literally stayed with apple all these years because of this feature, on my iPhone 11pro it just does the random things. No speakable content on the screen, or reads 4 sentences and just shuts off, or wont turn a page, and then will work for a few hours, and then will start messing up again.

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Yeah it doesn’t seem to turn pages anymore in Kindle or iBooks since I updated to iOS 13.

It also has problem pausing automatically with incoming calls.

It helped me to restart my iphone. Try shutdown and restart to see if the problem goes away.

Yes I did figure that out, but it is very tedious to restart the phone every time I have to use speak screen (which is literally every day, and often several times a day!) Anyway, thanks.

This is a great feature for people like me with ADHD. So sad that mine won’t work now either.

Sorry that the reachability “fix” didn’t fix the issue for you, I thought I was on to something there. I, too, will stay pressing Apple to fix this issue, as it is a very serious issue.

Hello folks, has anyone tried the new Public Beta of iOS 13.4 ? Any of our issues resolved?

This worked for me. Thanks! I’ve been annoyed by this since the last update!

@Rae4242 Did this work for you once and for all?

Mine even doesnt make a sound... poor

I have the same exact issue you are having. It is frustrating because it means you lost your mean to be able to read books. I’m not sure what to do.