Go to any given web page, ie news site article, WordPress powered blog post, virtually any of the 2/3 of the World Wide Web. Click the “show reader” icon in safari on iOS and select the “Listen to Page” option …nothing happens.
This feature works if you hard reboot your iPhone and then eventually stops working for unknown reasons.
Can Apple bother to please fox this.
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Why would I need to contact the web developer? The web page isn’t the problem. In fact, often times it’s my own web page. I’m the author. The page pulls up fine in Apple’s “Show Reader” mode and works with “Listen to Page” until it doesn’t (“Show Reader” always works). Sometimes “Listen to Page” will read a few sentences and then stop. The indicators for playback with skip appear specifically for “Listen to Page” but simply stop working. Occasionally it may cause a random audio stream to resume (ie, a previously listened to iTunes/Apple Music item).
Once “Listen to Page” stops working it will never work again until iPhone is rebooted. Then pages that worked and stopped or didn’t work at all will work again. After about 8 hours to a day it will stop working or act weird prior to stop working altogether.
This tells me that the iOS feature has a memory leak, timing/asynchronous race condition, or some other runtime execution error either by poor design, and or quality/testing.
It would be nice if Apple fixed this so that it would “just work”. Enough users have already complained about this.
The “work around” is already known (reboot iPhone) but it is impractical and a poor solution.
Why would I need to contact the web developer? The web page isn’t the problem. In fact, often times it’s my own web page. I’m the author. The page pulls up fine in Apple’s “Show Reader” mode and works with “Listen to Page” until it doesn’t (“Show Reader” always works). Sometimes “Listen to Page” will read a few sentences and then stop. The indicators for playback with skip appear specifically for “Listen to Page” but simply stop working. Occasionally it may cause a random audio stream to resume (ie, a previously listened to iTunes/Apple Music item).
Once “Listen to Page” stops working it will never work again until iPhone is rebooted. Then pages that worked and stopped or didn’t work at all will work again. After about 8 hours to a day it will stop working or act weird prior to stop working altogether.
This tells me that the iOS feature has a memory leak, timing/asynchronous race condition, or some other runtime execution error either by poor design, and or quality/testing.
It would be nice if Apple fixed this so that it would “just work”. Enough users have already complained about this.
The “work around” is already known (reboot iPhone) but it is impractical and a poor solution.
It was working fine for me until just a few minutes ago. Now it simply does not work at all on any sites. Not even Apples own sites. 🤷🏻♂️
The solution for me was to turn the iPhone off and then turn it back on. Don’t listen to the people saying it’s website related.
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"Listen to Page" feature stopped working on Safari
