Hi Mike,
Yes, getting rid of the programs activity did the job. I also put punctuation 
in my rotor, where it had not been, but I don’t know if that actually did 
anything. It was more a preventative measure in case all punctuation stop being 
acknowledged.
Mary

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> On Jun 11, 2022, at 9:59 AM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good Morning Mary,
>  
> Did any of the suggestions take care of the problem?  Sure hope so, I forget 
> which one fixed my SE2020 iPhone, but I had the same problem and I believe 
> removing the, Programs, entry from settings / 
> Accessibility/VoiceOver/Activities is the one that did the trick.
>  
>  
> Stay safe and take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool. 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mary Otten
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2022 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: iPhone 7 Plus announcing all sorts of unwanted punctuation after 
> upgrade
> 
> Thanks, Mike. Disregard the message I just sent on the same topic. I thought 
> I had sent something yesterday about this, and then for some stupid reason, 
> going through my email this morning, I missed your reply the first time, so 
> thinking maybe I hadn’t sent it, I sent another message on the same topic. 
> I’m sorry for that.
> Mary
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 10, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Mary,
>>  
>> Try the following suggestions from a query of the same nature with iOS14.
>> From: Chris Szostak
>> Hi All!
>>  
>>  I know a lot of us have had the really really annoying issue with VO 
>> 14.3-14.4 reading all and often way more punctuation than wanted. If you 
>> have had
>> this problem, I found a solution on the VO bugs reporting list. at least two 
>> people there tried it with success and I have had the same results! 
>>  
>> 1.  In settings go to Accessibility/VoiceOver/Activities.
>>  
>> 2.  Do a 1-finger swipe down on programs until you hear delete and delete 
>> this. 
>>  
>>  If like me after doing the above two steps, you end up getting VO reading 
>> no punctuation at this point unless you read by character , there is a really
>> simple solution. I had this problem and the following resolved it. 
>>  
>> 1.  In settings go to Accessibility/VoiceOver/rotor.
>>  
>> 2.  Make sure punctuation is selected. 
>>  
>>  This should resolve the problem, as long as your default is set  to some. 
>> If it is not set to some, do the following: 
>>  
>> 1.  In settings go to Accessibility/VoiceOver/Verbosity/Punctuation/Active 
>> Punctuation Group.
>>  
>> 2.  Make sure it is set to some or change the selection if that is not 
>> selected. 
>>  
>> Chris  
>>  
>> From: Dave Clement 
>> Hi, 
>> This sounds like the Voiceover "activity" bug. Try:
>> 1. Go to Settings/Accessibility/Voiceover/Activities
>> 2. Double tap on the "Programming" activity
>> 3. Double tap on the "verbosity" setting
>> 4. Set "punctuation" to none
>> I am assuming you are running IOS 14.x. This should fix your problem. This 
>> is a known bug but it would help if you report it to Apple. The more folk who
>> do, the higher the priority to fix it will rise. 
>> Dave Clement
>>  
>> From: Lielle Ben Simon
>> Hi, regarding the reading punctuation marks, on Voice Over go to the 
>> "activity" and "set program" and delete this. I have made this changed this, 
>> and it 
>> solved. 
>> Liel
>>  
>> From: Simon A Fogarty 
>> Have you changed your voice on the device?
>>  
>> If so try changing it back to the default voice and see what happens.
>>  
>> Simon 
>>  
>>  
>> Stay safe and take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool. 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mary Otten
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2022 8:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: iPhone 7 Plus announcing all sorts of unwanted punctuation 
>> after upgrade
>> 
>> No. Not happening. I’ve been using Alex forever. It works fine on my iPhone 
>> XR. So there has to be something going on. I just set my punctuation to 
>> none, and the stupid voiceover keeps giving me all sorts of commas and all 
>> kinds of crap. Changing voices is not the answer, since it works great on 
>> this phone. So, what the heck am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jun 10, 2022, at 7:56 PM, Lielle Ben Simonליאל בן סימון 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Mary, try to use an other voice.
>>> It's read this ponctuation mark wen we use in English US voices.
>>> Try to use an british or other English accent.
>>> It helped me.
>>> 
>>> מילים באהבה שירותי תמלול.
>>> 0509549090
>>> לדף העסקי שלי:
>>> https://www.facebook.com/transcribes500/
>>>  
>>> 
>>>> ‫ב-11 ביוני 2022, בשעה 5:46, ‏‏Mary Otten ‏<[email protected]> כתב/ה:‬
>>>> 
>>>> I finally upgraded my 7+ to iOS 15. Five. And it is reading all sorts of 
>>>> unwanted punctuation, like,,.,: Etc. I have had my punctuation set to some 
>>>> which has worked great for as long as I can remember. I just went in and 
>>>> switch my punctuation to nun on this phone, and it is still reading all 
>>>> this garbage, colons and colons and commas etc. What am I doing wrong? 
>>>> This is unacceptable.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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