VoiceOver Haptics Crashing
AppleVis [Unofficial]
April 26, 2026
Hi all, has anybody noticed that the haptic feedback from VoiceOver will freeze up and stop working sometimes? I frequently notice it happening when I am typing a lot using Braille Screen Input, and I've noticed the freeze occuring the most frequently in the Discord app, although it happens in any app where I'm typing a lot with BSI. Usually a VoiceOver restart fixes it temporarily, although it freezes up again relatively quickly. It can get to a point where restarting VoiceOver does not fix the haptics, and I then have to restart my phone. The weirdest part about it is if I wait until I can't get haptics back at all to restart, my phone cannot shut down. I will tell it to power off and it'll make the shutdown audio cue, but then it just freezes on the "power off" button for about 30 seconds before going back to my lock screen, which I know because VoiceOver will still talk if you interact with the screen the entire time. I have to force restart it. So I usually just do a restart the first time the haptics freeze up.
I'm running iOS 26.4.2 on an iPhone 17 pro. I'm not beta testing so I don't know where to report this.
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