Iphone14 running on iOS26 : I activated voiceover and phone touch screen is doing bizarre things; voice is talking but touch screen is not responding. I tried restart several times but now I even cannot sign in , keypad is not responding to sign in, it is also repeating my password. I cannot use the phone as of 1st November morning...
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Original Title: iOS26 VoiceOver bug
iPhone 15
I found the workaround; 1) sing-in: standard double click doesn't work properly, instead I touched the number with one finger, while still holding (don't release the finger), randomly tapped somewhere on the screen with another finger. With this method, I could enter the passcode and sign-in. 2) Disable VoiceOver: again if you want to do manually, I think tapping method described above may work to navigate in settings (not tested); what I did was to simply ask Siri to disable it.
For Apple Developers, based on my experience, remaining issues with VoiceOver iOS26 if these are not intended features:
1) Double click function (work-around: do first tap but don't release your finger, do random tap anywhere on screen with second finger)
2) When you tap side button, VoiceOver starts reading UI elements but repeats some of them 2-3 times
3) When you enter 6 digit passcode, if the last digit is one of the button with letters 2(ABC) --> 9(WXYZ), VoiceOver reads number and plus letters , ex: " 9 W X Y Z"
I found the workaround; 1) sing-in: standard double click doesn't work properly, instead I touched the number with one finger, while still holding (don't release the finger), randomly tapped somewhere on the screen with another finger. With this method, I could enter the passcode and sign-in. 2) Disable VoiceOver: again if you want to do manually, I think tapping method described above may work to navigate in settings (not tested); what I did was to simply ask Siri to disable it.
For Apple Developers, based on my experience, remaining issues with VoiceOver iOS26 if these are not intended features:
1) Double click function (work-around: do first tap but don't release your finger, do random tap anywhere on screen with second finger)
2) When you tap side button, VoiceOver starts reading UI elements but repeats some of them 2-3 times
3) When you enter 6 digit passcode, if the last digit is one of the button with letters 2(ABC) --> 9(WXYZ), VoiceOver reads number and plus letters , ex: " 9 W X Y Z"
“iOS26 VoiceOver bug causes unresponsive touch screen and sign-in issues on iPhone 14: found the workaround; 1) sing-in: standard double click doesn't work properly, instead I touched the number with one finger, while still holding (don't release the finger), randomly tapped somewhere on the screen with another finger. With this method, I could enter the passcode and sign-in. 2) Disable VoiceOver: again if you want to do manually, I think tapping method described above may work to navigate in settings (not tested); what I did was to simply ask Siri to disable it.[…]”
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Excellent job troubleshooting this!
Provide the Source:
Whats the source of your finding for this workaround? Providing that would help many, for certain.
Report this Bug Fix to Apple:
Do your Part: These are just user-to-user forms. Apple barely reads the forums as it is on their own time and will. Apple will know nothing of this concern, if you do not spread the word to them. So, report it to Apple. They wont get back to you directly, but the more they hear about this, the more likely they will look into, knowing what is going on. They will know knowing of this fix, if you don't report it to them.
Thank you. The workaround I found is by bare chance. I realized when I was hopelessly trying to enter passcode, I was trying long hold twice , in one of them I touched screen while holding, number appeared on the screen.
OK, I will report via the link as bug. I call above case as dead-lock. I experienced another one: during an existing app update, installation failed, and phone was in dead-lock with "Unable to Install .... App" tab on screen and OK button was not working. Force restart solved the problem. No data if the same problem appears with other Apps or it was the case with specific App.
iOS26 VoiceOver bug causes unresponsive touch screen and sign-in issues on iPhone 14
