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How to enable typing feedback in iOS 14 for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

How to enable typing feedback in iOS 14 for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch

  1. Open the Settings app Note: The Settings app icon may appear in a different place on your home screen than shown in our example, below.
  2. In the Settings app, scroll down and select Accessibility from the list.
  3. On the Accessibility screen, select Spoken Content.
  4. On the Spoken Content screen, select Typing Feedback.
  5. On the next screen, you can choose what spoken feedback you receive.
  6. Select an item to set the toggle switch to On.
    • Characters – hear individual characters while typing. Once enabled, you can set a delay so that characters are only spoken aloud after a delay between key presses.
    • Character Hints - hear the phonetic alphabet pronunciation (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, ...) of each character as you type. Note: The are no hints for non-alphabet characters. Once enabled, you can set a delay so that characters are only spoken aloud after a delay between key presses.
    • Speak Words – hear whole words while typing.
    • Speak Auto-text – hear auto-corrections and capitalisations.
    • Hold to Speak Predictions – if typing predictions are enabled, tap and hold a predicted word to hear it spoken.
  7. When you are happy with your settings, you can return to the home screen page of apps by:
    • On devices with Face ID: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
    • On all other devices:  Press the home button once.
Created on: November-14-2019

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