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When I try to use Voiceover in Sequoia is states, "System settings are not responding". Has anyone ran into this issue? Engineering is suppose to be working on it, but I have a special needs son that uses Voiceover often.
Mac Studio (2022)
Hi kendeebrad
welcome to the Apple (user-to-user) Community!
Re: "Voiceover stopped working with Sequoia Update" :
"System settings are not responding"
Am no expert in this this area, yet your post certainly deserves some response:
If you haven't already, you may want to try restarting the Mac: Eg: Apple menu > Restart. (Deletes temporary files, re-establishes connections, may update recent setting changes, and often restores order if something is not working as expected,)
Also: wondering if you have seen the latest Voice Over User Guide for Sequoia, or whether it may be at all useful right now:
Eg: See the: "Table of Contents" in VoiceOver User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
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If needed: More info /support / contact options:
Eg: You may want to contact Apple's Accessibility Support Team:
How to contact Apple for accessibility support - Apple Support
or
Apple's Accessibility Support Website
(NB: You can "Get Support" from the link at the bottom of their website:)
Accessibility Support - Official Apple Support
Provide feedback:
To provide feedback about an accessibility feature on an Apple product, email the Accessibility team: accessibility@apple.com
All the best :-)
Thanks for responding! I have restarted it and spoken to the Accessibility Support team, they had to send it to engineering. I have not seen the User guide.. I will definitely look at that! Thank you again!
I am blind and i now have a useless pile of metal and plastic in front pf me because after "upgrading" to macOS 15.0.1 neither my voiceover nor my spoken content is working anymore.
i use an M1/Max Mac Studio.
i have an old Intel Mac Mini and voiceover still works on that with 15.0.1.
so maybe(?) it's the combination of M1 and 15.0.1 that breaks it.
i contacted Apple SUPPORT AND THEY HAVE NO IDEA. they don't even have access to standalone computers to verify the existence of a bug. what kind ofn support is this??
Wow! So sorry.. yes, we usually wait awhile to install new updates but this time we were trying to fix a previous issue and the representative insisted it was due to the update. Well, this update created this issue and they still do not have a clue. I have sent a recording of it happening and files, still no resolution. They could not tell me if we could downgrade back to Sonoma, it had an issues but at least it worked. I will continue to call until they get it resolved.
This is not working for me either, and I rely heavily on text-to-speech. This is bad, and my confidence in the machine's equity is diminishing. Apple, please find a fix; this has been going on for almost a month now.
We are all Apple users, like yourself, in the community, so Apple is not here to read your request. If you wish, you can send your request or feedback to reach those who work behind-the-scenes at Apple: To provide feedback about an accessibility feature on an Apple product, email the Accessibility team: accessibility@apple.com.
GOOD NEWS !
update to 15.1 right away. that fixed the Voiceover and Spoken Content bugs.
after updating, go to System Settings -> Siri
and then re-download all of her/his voices (can take a few minutes!)
after that set voiceover / spoken content voices back to Siri
Thank you kindly for your reply, and for sharing your experience. Your findings may help others who look here for answers :-)
Voiceover stopped working with Sequoia Update
