Two different things are getting tangled together here, and that is why the
swipe finds nothing.

Hearing that the ad can now be skipped tells you the ad has reached the
point where skipping is allowed. It does not tell you the Skip control is
on screen at that moment. The Skip button lives in the player's own control
overlay, and that overlay fades itself out while a video is running. Once
it has faded, there is no Skip button to swipe to, because it is not on
screen at all.

That is also why Screen Recognition did nothing for you, and your test
there is worth more than it looks. Screen Recognition works on what is
actually drawn on the screen. If the controls have faded out, there is
nothing drawn for it to find, so it has nothing to hand you. A negative
result like that is still an answer.

So the order matters. Get the player controls back up first, then go
looking for Skip. I am not going to guess the exact gesture for bringing
the controls back on 27, because I would rather not send you hunting for
something I have not confirmed on that release myself. Somebody here will
have it exact.

One more thing worth checking, since you say this started two or three days
ago. When a fault starts the same week something changed, the change is the
first suspect, and the YouTube app moves its player controls around far
more often than iOS does.

Did YouTube update itself on your phone around the time this started?

VaShaun

On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 02:15 PM, MichaelAmaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Listers,
>
> For the past 2 or 3 day's I have been experiencing  voice over and youtube
> interesting behavior.  When It comes to   skipping  youtube ads.  I start
> watching a video, then an ad pops up.  I wait untill I hear voice over say
> ad can now be skipped.  How ever when I start swiping to skip the ad the
> skip button is not shown.  I have even tried turning on screen
> recognition,  and still nothing.  I close the app and reload it  again.  I
> am running iOS 27.01, on an iPhone 17e.  Any one  else experiencing this?
>
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