Michael, That's the answer, even without the date. If YouTube updated, YouTube is where the change came from.
Something else worth knowing. A member on one of the other lists is seeing the same fault on iOS 26, going back to Tuesday. If it is happening on 26 and on 27, the iOS version is not what did this. That puts the change in the YouTube app, not on your phone. Which means two things. Nothing you set caused it, so there is no VoiceOver setting to go hunting for. And no iOS update is going to undo it either. It gets fixed when YouTube fixes it. In the meantime, the collapse the player route you were given is the right workaround. It works because it stops depending on the overlay coming back at all. You reach the Skip button from the minimized player instead, so the fade is out of the loop. VaShaun On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 03:47 PM, MichaelAmaro <[email protected]> wrote: > Honestly I don't remember. Though I do remember that there was an update > to youtube. Not exactly when though. > > *From:* vashaun jones <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, October 11, 2026 12:10 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Habving trouble skipping ads on youtube with voice over > > 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? >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone >> list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> [email protected]. 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