It appears my work isn’t done yet.😁 I had written a message for Apple 
Accessibility, and was seconds from sending it, when a notification came in to 
the lock screen.  A tone announced the notification had arrived and Siri only 
spoke when I swiped right, and that is when the notification was actually read. 
 
 
Back to the drawing board, I decided to look at the various settings related to 
the News app, because earlier a News notification was read by Siri and the 
notification that just arrived and didn’t speak was also from the News app.  
 
I found News was set up to receive notifications, including on the lock screen, 
under Notifications.  Under Accessibility/Siri, just to the right of “Announce 
Notifications on Speaker”, I clicked on “Announce Notifications”.  After 
confirming News was set to on, I clicked on “News and found “Time Sensitive 
Notifications” was selected for what would be announced.  I changed the setting 
to “Always”, and hopefully notifications from News will all now be spoken/read 
on the lock screen.  I will now have to go through all the other apps to see if 
they are set correctly.  My goodness, does this have to be so complex?  
 
I of course updated the message to Apple Accessibility before sending it.
 
Katrina
 
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Katrina 
Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 11:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Reading notifications on the lock screen
 
I just realized Chris and CJ were replying to Debbie’s message, rather than 
mine, so perhaps my input isn’t needed.  However, I may finally have stumbled 
into a positive direction and thought I’d share.  Two notifications just came 
in, and they were not only announced, but all of the notifications were read by 
Siri.  Unlike I feared, VO and Siri didn’t speak at the same time.  
 
I’ll attempt to describe how I stumbled onto where I currently am.  As 
mentioned in prior messages, I had been reluctant to turn on the setting for 
Siri to announce notifications, hoping to prevent hearing VO and Siri speaking 
at the same time, so asked if I should turn on the setting for Siri to announce 
notifications.  An answer wasn’t provided, so I decided to turn on the setting, 
under notifications, for Siri to announce notifications; it didn’t make a 
difference.  I also tried turning on the setting, under Siri Suggestions, to 
announce notifications just for kicks; no change.
 
After confirming the settings under Notifications Chris and CJ mentioned are 
correct, I systematically turned on/off anything under Notifications that 
relates to Siri and notifications.  Nothing I did caused notifications to be 
read on the lock screen.
 
So, I went back to the settings under Siri/Search.  Once again, I 
systematically turned on/off settings; nothing changed.  I then went back to 
the Accessibility settings, under Siri, and proceeded in the same fashion; 
nothing changed.  I then decided to go back and turn on a lot of settings under 
Notifications, Siri/Search & Accessibility/Siri.  The last setting I activated 
was “Announce Notifications on Speaker”.  Shortly after, Siri announced the 
arrival of a notification and read the entire thing.  Was the key to turn on 
“Announce Notifications on Speaker”?  I’m not sure since I had that setting 
turned on at least once before.  It seems to me that the secret is to have a 
number of settings configured properly, and not just settings under 
notifications; kind of like a puzzle.  Maybe when I went through the settings, 
to set up the new phone, I changed a default setting that caused notifications 
to not be read on the lock screen.
 
So, because Siri is giving me what I want, maybe I incorrectly was focused on 
notifications being read by VO; maybe Siri always read my notifications.  By 
the way, I set up two very different voices for VO and Siri, so I would know 
who was speaking. 
 
I will of course share all of this with Apple Accessibility.
 
Katrina
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of 
Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Reading notifications on the lock screen
 
And it you’re talking about the lock screen, go into Settings -> Notifications 
and check whether you want your notifications to be displayed in a stack or a 
list and the show preview setting to determine if you want notification 
previews displayed on the lock screen or not. 
 
--
Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷
Chaltain at Outlook, USA
 
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of 
Chris Chaffin
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 6:27 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: Reading notifications on the lock screen
 
 
If you are referring to Voiceover automatically reading notifications when they 
come in, I am assuming that you have already checked this, but just in case, go 
to, Settings, Accessibility, Voiceover, verbosity, and make sure the setting, 
always speak notifications is turned on.
 
Chris
 
 
On Nov 8, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Debbie Downey <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Hello,
 
I just upgraded to IOS 16.1 on my iPhone 8. Now when I receive a notification, 
it just announces 1 new notification but doesn’t read the notification aloud. I 
have to flick to it and read it that way. How can I get it to read the 
notification on the locked screen when it comes in?
 
Thank you!
 
Debbie unless
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