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one of my real pain points with the iPhone is composing emails using the built-in mail app with #voiceover. It’s got slightly better with iOS 18, but the Misspelt Words option in the rotor still does not work. This might not be an issue for some, but for me I cannot send emails on the phone with confidence that it is written accurately and looks professional. I know there's the option of writing it in the Notes app, reviewing it and then pasting it into Mail, but come on! That's such a clunky workaround.

Is Mail any better on the iPad at all? I would quite like something that is an in between device to a laptop and a phone that I could use to quickly write emails, make additions to documents, write quick notes etc, and in that sense the iPad could be a nice fit, but if iPadOS has the same issues as the iOS versions then meh, it might not add much for me. Any thoughts?

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in reply to Callum Stoneman

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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Ah now, correcting misspellings with Braille Screen Input works well enough in Mail, so I didn't even know this was a bug!
Hope they fix it soon, though.
Nobody's giving me beautiful emails on iPads with VoiceOver, so I'm assuming it's the same underlying issue there.
in reply to Callum Stoneman

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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if you suspect you've got a word wrong, a quick left then right flick (effectively deleting then re-inserting the space after your word) will trigger a misspelled announcement if the word is incorrect. 90% of the time a single flick down will choose the one I meant after that.
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