We've identified a regression in iOS 26.0 and 26.1 Beta 4 where AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language:) no longer respects user-selected voices from Accessibility settings. Issue: When users select a specific voice in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices, calling AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language:) returns the system default voice instead of the user's selection. This worked correctly in iOS 18.6.2. Particularly affects: Third-party speech synthesis voices (CereProc, Grammatek, etc.) Apps relying on automatic voice selection based on user preferences Example: // User selected CereProc Heather for en-GB in Accessibility settings let voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: "en-GB") print(voice?.name) // iOS 18.6.2: "HEATHER", iOS 26: "Daniel" (system default) Interesting observation: The new Accessibility Reader feature in iOS 26 correctly uses the user-selected voice, but Tap to Speak and the API both ignore the setting. Tested methods: AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language:) AVSpeechUtterance auto-selection Reflection for new APIs All return the system default voice, not the user's preference. Filed: FB[20271264] Has anyone else encountered this? Any known workarounds to programmatically access the user's preferred voice selection?

Hi Apple Developer Community, I'm experiencing persistent issues with the Apple Search Ads API since today morning (August 16, 2025). My application keeps getting "Service Unavailable" errors when trying to connect to the API endpoints. Error Details: Error Message: "Service Unavailable" HTTP Status: 503/500 API Endpoint: https://api.searchads.apple.com/api/v5/* Frequency: Consistent failures since August 16, 2025 What I've Tried: Verified API credentials and certificates are valid Tested multiple API endpoints Checked network connectivity The API was working fine until yesterday, and no changes were made to our implementation. Any insights or updates from the community would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!

We have a password entry field with a "show password" button. The button effectively turns the "secure text entry" textfield into a non-secure text entry field allowing the user to view what they typed in. When VoiceOver is enabled, I am not including that button in the UI; it doesn't seem to make sense to me for the following reasons. If you properly test with the screen curtain, the functionality is useless. You don't see anything. I've tried to explain this to my accessibility team. It's also quite ridiculous to offer to show a blind user their password, I'm sure they'd love to see it, but they just can't. This would almost seem insulting as well. If by toggling that button, and turning a secure text entry into a non-secure text entry, now the app is literally speaking their password aloud. This seems like a security vulnerability to me. What if someone else overhears the password spoken aloud. The accessibility team is insisting that I need to include the "show password" button when VoiceOver is enabled. This is the response I received. "functionality should be the same for VI users as for sighted users. It may happen that a VI user wants to check what is typed into password field in order to correct mistakes". Again, I don't agree with that because functionality should not be the same. Functionality should be changed and altered as necessary to make the user experience as accessible as possible. And in this scenario, to me the functionality doesn't make sense at all in a VoiceOver setting. Any thoughts on this? Am I incorrect here? Are there benefits of including a "show password" button to a user utilizing VoiceOver? What should then the functionality be? Speak the password aloud? Thanks.

Please note the error after the iOS 26 update I updated to the beta version of iOS 26, but the phone did not charge more than one percent and it reboots every couple of minutes when charging. In the settings, the maximum battery capacity says 0% the phone did not fall before the update, everything was fine, I updated it and this stuff started Even the recovery can't be done because it restarts in the middle of the process.

Every new build of macOS 26 further breaks some part of text-to-speech or voice control. I have filed multiple bug reports on this, yet the situation gets worse, not better, with each new build. I am begging you to fix this! I am disabled and rely on these features to work. Accessibility in macOS is more than 50% of my reasons for choosing Macs over Windows. Here's some of what is currently broken: Speak announcements only works if the Samantha voice is selected. If other voices are selected either the announcements don't speak, or they default to the Samantha voice. This became broken with 26.1. Announce the time only works with some voices. I would like to use Australian English Siri 2 but with that voice selected it defaults to Samantha. This became broken with 26.4. With voice control enabled there are two menu bar icons. The blue voice control icon and an orange microphone "an application is accessing the microphone" icon. This orange icon started appearing with 26.3. For four years of macOS releases, the orange warning didn't apply to system services. And note that with voice control enabled on iOS there is no orange icon. It wastes valuable menu bar space and defeats its purpose. With that orange icon always being there I have no indication if a nefarious app starts recording me. This became broken with 26.3. Overlay shows numbers even when it is set to none. This has been broken since at least 14.0. I don't remember if it was broken in prior versions but it has been broken in every version since 14.0. The voice control control center widget is defective. If voice control is not in the menu bar (for example if I've said "Siri turn off voice control") using the control center widget to turn it on brings about the orange icon, but not the blue icon actually used for controlling voice control. If you do have the blue voice control icon and use control center to turn off voice control the blue icon stays but voice control is not enabled. This became broken in 26.0, was fixed in 26.2, broke again in 26.4. When using voice control to edit text (aka dictation mode) saying "go to the end of the line" invariably goes to the beginning of the line. Once in a blue moon it will go to the end, but there is no rhyme or reason and it's rare that it does. Since this bug was added it has worked correctly exactly twice. This became broken in 26.3 (possibly 26.4). I know I am missing some issues. Voice control and text-to-speech have new bugs with each new build of macOS 26. My main Mac is being repaired and once I get it back I'll be installing macOS 15 Sequoia on it because of these issues. These issues stop me from buying a new Mac because any new Mac will only run the broken macOS 26. I file bug reports on each build when I discover another new issue, but these reports seemingly go unread. I would suggest Apple get a focus group of disabled people together and do research into how we use macOS. Find what's broken and what works. And if Apple does this I would be glad to be a part of that group. My place, or yours. Accessibility at one time was something Apple was proud of. It was some Apple showed off. But now, I'm not so sure. It's starting to look like Apple doesn't care. I hope I'm wrong, and that Apple does care, so... Please, Apple. I am begging you. Fix broken Text-To-Speech and Voice Control!

I'm developing a calculator app and working to ensure a great experience for both VoiceOver and Braille display users. For expressions like (2+3)×5, I need two different accessibility outputs: VoiceOver (spoken): A descriptive string like “left paren two plus three right paren times five,” provided via .accessibilityValue. I'm using a custom spellOut function since VoiceOver doesn't announce parentheses—which are kind of important when doing math! Braille (symbolic): The literal math string (2+3)×5, provided using .accessibilityCustomContent("", ...), with an empty label so it’s not spoken aloud. The issue: I don’t have access to a Braille display device and Xcode’s Accessibility Inspector doesn’t seem to show the custom content. Is there any way to confirm that custom Braille content is being set correctly in Simulator or with other tools? Or…is there a "math mode" in VoiceOver that forces it to announce parentheses? Any advice or workarounds would be much appreciated! Thanks, Uhl

I occasionally get this error in Xcode’s console: Potential Structural Swift Concurrency Issue: unsafeForcedSync called from Swift Concurrent context. What does this mean, and how can I resolve it? Googling it doesn’t turn up any results. This doesn't crash the app - it’s just an error diagnostic that I see in the Xcode console. The app keeps running before and after the issue. Is there a way I can set a breakpoint to catch this where it happens?

I am getting this issue when trying to accept an invite to a new test version of our app. ****Unable to Accept invite This invitation cannot be accepted because your Apple Account, xxxxxxxx.me.com, has already been associated to this app.**** Can you help please?

A lot of apps use undocumented App-prefs URLs to help users get to the iOS Settings screen needed to set up the app. In iOS 18, it seems like these all stopped working. Here are the ones I currently use: App-prefs:MESSAGES - broken in iOS 18 Used for SMS Protection. App-prefs:Phone - broken in iOS 18 Used for Live Voicemail, Silence Unknown Callers, and SMS Reporting. Some but not most paths have specific documented replacements. E.g. for Call Blocking & Identification you can use CXCallDirectoryManager.sharedInstance.openSettings() and this still works in iOS 18. But I don't see any other direct replacements. Apple probably doesn't consider this a bug but I filed FB14378568 anyway. I consider this an accessibility issue because many older, inexperienced, or users with disabilities have trouble finding the right Settings screen based on a textual description alone.

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.