Every time a notification comes in, the screen power is up. If the phone is not 
muted, voice-over states the number of notifications.

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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Sent from my iPhone

> On 2 Sep 2014, at 6:46, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much; I hear and appreciate what you are saying. But I do not 
> want to have to access the notification center. The only thing I want is for 
> the number of notifications to stop being announced. I have many 
> notifications and I am not going to go through and put each one of them on to 
> not show in locked screen when all I want is for the phone to stop announcing 
> the number of notifications I have. But I appreciate your efforts to help 
> with this.
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
> thrown in the trash!
> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
> His joy for my despairing tears!
> And now, every day:
> "This I call to mind,
> and therefore I have hope:
> The steadfast love of the Lord
> never ceases;
> his mercies never come to an end;
> they are new every morning;
> great is your faithfulness."
> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Donna <merma...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> By turning off "show on lock screen" but keeping on Access Notification 
>> Center from the lock screen should accomplish what you want. 
>> 
>> This is how I have my settings and No alerts are announced from the lock 
>> screen unless I open Notification Center. 
>> 
>> I am using an iPhone 5 with the latest IOS. 
>> 
>> Donna
>> 
>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think you don't understand me, Donna. I want them to show on locked 
>>> screen; I want to access them on the locked screen. I just do not want to 
>>> have the number of notifications announced periodically, I think this 
>>> happens each time one is added. I am not hearing the information about each 
>>> notification; I am just hearing an update as to how many notifications I 
>>> have.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Cheryl
>>> 
>>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
>>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
>>> thrown in the trash!
>>> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
>>> His joy for my despairing tears!
>>> And now, every day:
>>> "This I call to mind,
>>> and therefore I have hope:
>>> The steadfast love of the Lord
>>> never ceases;
>>> his mercies never come to an end;
>>> they are new every morning;
>>> great is your faithfulness."
>>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Donna <merma...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Have you just tried going to Notification Center and turning off Show on 
>>>> lock screen" for each app?? Leaving on all other alerts. 
>>>> 
>>>> Donna
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks. I do not want to remove any of my notifications; I just don't 
>>>>> want them spoken in the locked screen. I only want to hear about them 
>>>>> when I press the power button to unlock the phone. That is what the 
>>>>> voiceover option should do.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Cheryl
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
>>>>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
>>>>> thrown in the trash!
>>>>> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
>>>>> His joy for my despairing tears!
>>>>> And now, every day:
>>>>> "This I call to mind,
>>>>> and therefore I have hope:
>>>>> The steadfast love of the Lord
>>>>> never ceases;
>>>>> his mercies never come to an end;
>>>>> they are new every morning;
>>>>> great is your faithfulness."
>>>>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Donna <merma...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Cheryl
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "I chose in settings not to have notifications spoken in lock screen." 
>>>>>> You didn't say that you turned off speak notifications in accessibility. 
>>>>>> So being both notification center and accessibility are both found under 
>>>>>> settings, this is one reason that I was confused. Secondly, if you 
>>>>>> havent taken all of the apps that you do not want notification alerts 
>>>>>> out of showing up in notification center, even though you have turned 
>>>>>> off speak notifications off in accessibility, notifications will still 
>>>>>> be spoken. So remove all necessary apps from the notification center by 
>>>>>> tapping on the app while in notification center and select to turn off 
>>>>>> sounds and the alert being shown on the lock screen. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> One would think that by turning off "speak notifications in lock 
>>>>>> screen," in accessibility, this would override any thing in notification 
>>>>>> center.  Guess this is a bug of sorts.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Donna 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am not quite sure what I said that confused you. I said nothing about 
>>>>>>> going into notification center and that isn't what I did. I went into 
>>>>>>> General > accessibility > Voiceover > show notifications in locked 
>>>>>>> screen and turned it off. Shawn has it almost right; it doesn't 
>>>>>>> announce the number of notifications when I am about to unlock the 
>>>>>>> screen; it just periodically announces how many notifications I have 
>>>>>>> and then after a few seconds says "screen locked". I don't know if it 
>>>>>>> is doing this at intervals or whenever a new notification comes in or 
>>>>>>> what is the trigger but it is very annoying and it is happening across 
>>>>>>> all devices that I have set not to show notifications in locked screen. 
>>>>>>> I hope this makes it clear.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>> Cheryl 
>>>>>>>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
>>>>>>>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! 
>>>>>>>> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
>>>>>>>> His joy for my despairing tears! 
>>>>>>>> And now, every day:
>>>>>>>> "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
>>>>>>>> The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
>>>>>>>> his mercies never come to an end;
>>>>>>>> they are new every morning;
>>>>>>>> great is your faithfulness."
>>>>>>>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 7:11 AM, Donna <merma...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I read the message to mean that she went into the notification center 
>>>>>>>> and the apps that she didn't want announced she turned off the sound 
>>>>>>>> and selected that notifications not be shown on the lock screen. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If I'm incorrect, hopefully she will post so. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 5:33 AM, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi Donna. Not to sound rude, but if you read her message properly, 
>>>>>>>>> that's what she did and Voiceover still insists reading the number of 
>>>>>>>>> notifications when on the lock screen when she is about to unlock it. 
>>>>>>>>> Is this right Cheryl?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Shawn
>>>>>>>>> Sent From My White MacBook
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 2:27 AM, Donna <merma...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Try going to Settings, General, Accessibility, Voiceover and turn 
>>>>>>>>>> off speak notifications. 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> In order to be able to have my Braille Edge paired with several 
>>>>>>>>>>> devices while keeping my Edge but losing contact with one device 
>>>>>>>>>>> whenever another unlocked to announce notifications, I chose in 
>>>>>>>>>>> settings not to have notifications spoken in locked screen. But 
>>>>>>>>>>> while the noffifications themselves are not now announced in my 
>>>>>>>>>>> locked screen, my i-devices frequently come into the unlock screen 
>>>>>>>>>>> in order to announce how many notifications I have. If this was not 
>>>>>>>>>>> so annoying, it would be extremely funny! But if you don't want 
>>>>>>>>>>> your notifications being announced, in many cases this also means 
>>>>>>>>>>> you don't want the fact that you have notifications announced 
>>>>>>>>>>> either! Without turning off all notifications, is there a way to 
>>>>>>>>>>> stop this? Is there a setting that actually will not speak anything 
>>>>>>>>>>> about notifications in the locked screen? I do realize that "do not 
>>>>>>>>>>> disturb" would be an option, but then I'd have to have "do not 
>>>>>>>>>>> disturb" turned on pretty much all the time.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheryl 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
>>>>>>>>>>>> His joy for my despairing tears! 
>>>>>>>>>>>> And now, every day:
>>>>>>>>>>>> "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
>>>>>>>>>>>> The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
>>>>>>>>>>>> his mercies never come to an end;
>>>>>>>>>>>> they are new every morning;
>>>>>>>>>>>> great is your faithfulness."
>>>>>>>>>>>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
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