[GUI-Talk] Voice Over responsiveness decreased on IOS 14 and iPhone XS Max and new iPhone 11. It feels Sluggish.

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

Take a look at the article and comments about iOS 14 on Applevis.com. Some 
people have gotten some improvement in responsiveness by switching languages 
or synthesizers, then switching back. Look it up; I don't remember the 
details, and have not used my phone enough to notice this. I am not using 
Alex, but the male voice that can be used with Siri, whatever that is 
called.




Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD

-----Original Message----- 
From: Santiago Velasquez via GUI-Talk
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 7:54 AM
To: The GUI Talk
Cc: Santiago Velasquez
Subject: [GUI-Talk] Voice Over responsiveness decreased on IOS 14 and iPhone 
XS Max and new iPhone 11. It feels Sluggish.

Good day to you all,

I hope you are doing well.

I am hoping that somebody in this list hast come across this issue> Google 
has not been much help. And, I am not really sure where to go from here.

i have an iPhone XS Max. The iPhone was purchased at the beginning of 2019, 
and up until now, I have not had any issues with the phone. However, I 
upgraded to the public version of IOS 14, and after the update, Voice Over 
feels much slower to respond to inputs. Just so that there is no confusion: 
I am not referring to the speed of the voice. I am referring about how long 
Voice Over takes to speak based on my fingers moving across the screen. I 
also tried voice over on a 6 day old iPhone 11, and the responsiveness of 
voice over has also decreased. This behaviour occurs through the iPhone’s 
built in speakers, using wired earphones and with Bluetooth headphones: plus 
the delay that Bluetooth headphones add.

With that out of the way, here is what I have noticed and what I have tried 
on both phones.
1. The iPhones have never had any beta versions of IOS installed. They have 
all been public releases.
2. THe battery health for the iPhone XS Max is at 89%. However, the phone 
states that “Your battery is currently supporting normal peak performance”. 
For the iPhone 11, the battery health is 100%.
3. No new apps have been installed, the apps on the phones are the same as 
when they were running IOS13. And, the phones are not, and have never been 
jail broken.
4. I have restarted the phones multiple times, as well as closing all apps.
5. I have not reset, or deleted the iPhone XS Max yet. Due to work that is 
just not an option at the moment. Everything is backed up, but with so many 
online meetings happening and other reasons, I cannot afford the downtime. 
And, the iPhone 11 is not mine.
6. When I ask sighted individuals to play with the phone to see if it feels 
sluggish, both phones are performing normal. This is with Voice Over off.

With the aforementioned points, here is more info about the sluggish 
behaviour of Voice Over in IOS 14. Most of the time it is not terrible, but 
it is not good either. As you move the finger across the screen. It is as if 
you were wearing bluetooth earphones, and the delay that they introduce. If 
you own AirPods and or other bluetooth headphones, you know that the delay 
is somewhat tolerable, but it is quite annoying and frustrating when you are 
trying to move quickly through the phone, or when typing. However, over less 
than 3 days, there have been more than 9 times when Voice Over seems to trip 
over itself, and it just needs to catchup to the user’s input. Another very 
unusual scenario has happened when using the screen curten. If I turn the 
screen curten on, it turns the screen black as it is meant to do. However, 
in a few occasions, the screen curten turns off for a few seconds before 
turning back on. This is without turning voice over off, or performing any 
gestures similar to the 3 finger quadruple tap to activate and deactivate 
the screen curten. It has happen when I active a link in Safari, scrolling 
on the home screen, ETC. It usually last the time that it takes a page to 
load: 2 to 3 seconds. And the tripping over itself can last between 2 to 10 
seconds. If anybody is currently running IOS13, have the Disney Plus app 
install and uses the app with Voice Over, the delay that Voice Over 
experiences when using the app: that is pretty much the same delay as I am 
experiencing when using Voice Over on IOS14.

If anybody knows why this might be happening, any info is greatly 
appreciated.

Regards
Santi
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