What's new with voiceover on iOS 27? Read it here

First off, voiceover seems to reset the VO sound/haptic settings, causing the sounds to be way louder than the VO speech, this is a bug. You need to go to VoiceOver settings and adjust the VoiceOver sounds again. You can uncheck "Match Speech Volume" under the VoiceOver Sounds & Haptics section and then manually adjust the sound volume. I personally have mine set to 10%. That’ll fix it. I don't know if some of the features I'm going to talk about below were already present in iOS 26, as I never tried the version 26, so some of these may have actually been introduced previously, but here you have it: * There's a text exploration toggle that you can set to paragraph, sentence, etc. I'm not really sure what it changes, as I haven't read anything long with VoiceOver yet. * There's a one-handed Braille mode. I'll have to try that one. * For cursor visibility under VO quick settings, you have three options: show the VoiceOver cursor at all times, hide it when taking a screenshot or recording, or not show it at all. * There's a hints delay setting where you can specify how long VoiceOver waits before speaking hints such as "double tap to activate." * You can now add custom hints for items, but I wasn't really interested in that, so I don't know much about it. And of course, you now have the image description features. VoiceOver always gives a short description of an image, but now, using the Actions rotor, you can have the image described in detail with AI, ask questions about the image, or just have it described without VoiceOver opening another screen, so it doesn't take you away from the current window. You can also use the Actions rotor on the Dynamic Island to ask about whatever you have on screen or have the screen described. In my experience, the descriptions only take a second, much faster than any other AI or Be My AI. Be My AI really started this trend, which I'm forever grateful for, but it seems like I'll be using it way less now that we have VoiceOver image descriptions. You probably guessed this already, but these descriptions aren't available without an internet connection. Apparently, you also need at least an iPhone 15 Pro, and your region and language have to be set to the U.S. and English. Thank me later, and enjoy the features if you can. It works great, as I'm now able to scan through Instagram stories without much delay.