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After updating my devices, I find that my iPhone 11 will no longer speck my text messages. I have tried several times to do a reset on speck selection put it will no longer speak my text messages. Has anyone else noticed this issue?


iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Dec 14, 2019 7:34 AM

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Posted on Dec 14, 2019 7:43 AM

Read and use what is applicable to you. --> Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing ...


Change the speech settings

  1. Go to Settings  > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
  2. Adjust any of the following:
    • Speak Selection: To hear text you selected, tap the Speak button.
    • Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
    • Speech Controller: Show the controller for quick access to Speak Screen and Speak on Touch.
    • Highlight Content: iPhone can highlight words, sentences, or both as they’re spoken. You can change the highlight color and style.
  • Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for software and hardware keyboards and choose to have iPhone speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions.
    • To hear typing predictions, you also need to go to Settings > General > Keyboards, then turn on Predictive.
    • Voices: Choose a voice and dialect.
    • Speaking Rate: Drag the slider.
    • Pronunciations: Dictate or spell out how you want certain phrases to be spoken.


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Dec 14, 2019 7:43 AM in response to momokochan

Read and use what is applicable to you. --> Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing ...


Change the speech settings

  1. Go to Settings  > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
  2. Adjust any of the following:
    • Speak Selection: To hear text you selected, tap the Speak button.
    • Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
    • Speech Controller: Show the controller for quick access to Speak Screen and Speak on Touch.
    • Highlight Content: iPhone can highlight words, sentences, or both as they’re spoken. You can change the highlight color and style.
  • Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for software and hardware keyboards and choose to have iPhone speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions.
    • To hear typing predictions, you also need to go to Settings > General > Keyboards, then turn on Predictive.
    • Voices: Choose a voice and dialect.
    • Speaking Rate: Drag the slider.
    • Pronunciations: Dictate or spell out how you want certain phrases to be spoken.


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