I am not seeing this happen. I took a look at my settings. Go to settings, Accessibility, Voiceover, Audio. Mine is set to "When speaking". Try that and see if it makes a difference. Audio ducking can be problematic.

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On 2/15/2026 3:10 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
Yeah, some issues here where I switch from finder (or another app) to a web 
browser and navigation by arrow keys ceases to work unless VoiceOver is 
restarted. This is on my Mac mini M2 and appears to affect all apps similarly, 
but is particularly noticable in Chrome, Safari and Brave., btw, this is not 
the same issue you are mentioning on the iOS platform, but I have noticed 
similar issues there that appear at random.

-Eric


On Jan 31, 2026, at 16:10, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
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Hi all,

Since IOS 26.1 I have had a lot of problems with VO losing focus.  Sometimes 
focus comes back and sometimes it doesn’t.  Anyone know of a solution for this 
issue?  If not, I’ll send it to Apple Accessibility, but I thought I’d check 
here first.  Just to cover my bases, iPhone is a 16 Pro, and yes, I’ve updated 
to 26.2.
Cheers,
Donna


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