Hi there! I have had similar problems with my 6 s on a number of occasions and have been totally unable to get VoiceOver speaking again after it has suddenly turned off. When I have asked Siri to turn it ,ack on, he has said it is already on, so I then say "Turn Voice-over off", followed by a separate command to turn Voice-Over on. This has always worked for me. I don't know what causes the problem but believe it's a sign that there are more bugs with Voice-Over these days. I hope this work-around will will also work for you. I personally don't think I'd consider an upgrade because of this problem but I would report it to Accessability, as I am now going to do:
Carol p - Sent from my iPhone using MBraille. On 8 Sep 2016, at 16:28, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes, the added volume is a big deal to me. I have a "small decibel" hearing loss and wear hearing aids and often find my phone just too low. I get an upgrade every year anyway. More space also. It is not necessary to run out to grab a 7, and if I do not do it there is no problem. However, last night I asked Siri to open reminders which was done and read through. Suddenly the phone went off, no voice over, no Siri. I touched nothing. I re-booted and all I could get was the sound of my reminders, as if one was stuck on the locked screen. No voice-over or Siri no matter how I pushed home button. I hard re-booted a couple more times with the same result. I could hear some clicks so knew it was ready to put in my security code. After about 4 hard re-boots I decided to try tapping the home button. The first 3 times I tapped it 3 times nothing. The fourth time I heard the familiar "voice Over ondd" I was then able to get to the home screen with no problem and no problem since. However, a few months back I had my phone replaced for a similar problem. I did not turn off Siri with home button. Now wondering if Sprint replaced my phone with a refurbished phone instead of a new one and because of these incidents being similar if this might be a bug on certain 6s phones. I am using this as my phone so thinking I should upgrade quickly instead of later in the year so I get a brand new phone, though I am not naive enough to think new phones cannot have problems. Anyone have thoughts or similar difficulties like described? Still not sure how I will handle this. I have heard tech companies are replacing with refurbished but not telling customers. Not saying this is what Sprint did just a possibility. reggie & Lex On Sep 8, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: Hi Reggie, Which phone do you currently have? If it is a 6/6 Plus or earlier the upgrade is probably OK, if you have a 6S or 6S Plus there is little reason to do so unless maybe you have a hearing impairment where the extra volume they claim may make a difference. Of course if you use a hearing aid the absence of the 3.5mm headphone jack may have a negative impact. I definitely don’t see a reason to upgrade my 6S Plus until next year especially knowing that next year’s iPhone is very likely to be a much bigger deal. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Regina Alvarado Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 6:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: listening and charging and thoughts on the presentation Apple just took care of not being able to listen with wired headphones and charging. For 49 dollars there is an Apple dock that allows listening and charging. Saw it in Mac Daily News. I do not know how to give a link, sorry. 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