{"id":60508,"date":"2018-03-12T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60508"},"modified":"2018-03-12T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:27:25","slug":"apple-ios-11-2-6-has-a-significant-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-ios-11-2-6-has-a-significant-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple iOS 11.2.6 Has A Significant Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple iOS 11.2.6 Has A Significant Problem<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple AAPL +1.72% iOS 11.2.6 is more controversial than it should be. On the surface, it\u2019s a seemingly simple bug fix, but it contains enough problems (the biggest is truly bizarre) that my review warned users not to upgrade. Now a new problem illustrates exactly why the cautious approach was best\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple iOS 11.2.6 has broken \u2018Speak Screen\u2019, a major part of iOS 11\u2019s Accessibility features. Credit for spotting this goes to users who contacted me about this on social media and, in particular, PiunikaWeb\u2019s Aparajita Sharma who broke down the fault in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A simple way to reproduce it is with Amazon\u2019s Kindle app. Start Speak Screen and it will successfully read the first page, but then skip to the bottom paragraph of each successive page &#8211; effectively rendering it useless. Speak Screen is a significant feature for vision impaired users and even those who simply prefer to have articles and eBooks read out to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">An example of this can be seen in the video below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Users are understandably frustrated. Right now it is not clear how many apps are affected by the bug since it is impossible to test them all &#8211; but breaking Kindle is not a great start. iBooks is currently unaffected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Understandably users are cross and there are a number of complaints in Apple\u2019s official Support Communities forum. Amazon itself told one user the blame is squarely on Apple because it claims the company not only recognises the problem, but has \u201cno plan\u201d to restore compatibility. I have reached out to Apple for a response to this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">If Amazon is right then the move may prove to be less a bug and more of a subtle power play removing functionality from rival apps. With Apple\u2019s big iOS 11.3 update just around the corner, we will soon know for sure either way\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gordonkelly\/2018\/03\/10\/apple-ios-11-2-6-problem-ios-upgrade-iphone-ipad-amazon-kindle\/#3c1d33c46b3b<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-ios-11-2-6-has-a-significant-problem.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple iOS 11.2.6 Has A Significant Problem Apple AAPL +1.72% iOS 11.2.6 is more controversial than it should be. 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