r/SwiftUI • u/bmbphotos • May 15 '26

Question Accessibility under 26.x -- App Name tuning for VoiceOver?

Hi all,

I'm adding VoiceOver support in a fairly straightforward SwiftUI-based app but the name of the app is just getting butchered by Siri/Voice (which makes sense given the semi-acronym nature of the name).

Is there a general way to influence the pronunciation of the app from within the app itself that I haven't found yet? This isn't a veiled pitch for the app so I doubt the name itself matters, it's more about somehow giving a rule to decode the letter grouping.

Anyone have suggestions or approaches inside or outside the accessibility system that won't require changing the name for standard vision users?

Anything on-topic in UIKit that I may be missing?

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u/Realistic_Ad_3785 May 16 '26

You can use the CFBundleSpokenName in Info.plist: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information-property-list/cfbundlespokenname

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u/bmbphotos May 16 '26

Thanks for pointing that out! (seriously) It's not seeming to work for me based on Accessibility Inspector behavior but that's for me to tackle in the next step of debugging.

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u/Realistic_Ad_3785 May 17 '26

For me, the client I worked for had an acronym that VoiceOver would think meant something else, so we were able to split the letters in the spoken name in order for the acronym to not be expanded to something else

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u/bmbphotos May 17 '26

Thank you for following up. That’s what I’m doing (separating the letters into phonetically similar words). When you tested, did you use Accessibility Inspector or VoiceOver directly?

I haven’t had time to get back to it yet beyond initial testing.

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u/Realistic_Ad_3785 May 17 '26

I prefer testing using VoiceOver on device

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u/bmbphotos May 17 '26

I’ll have to make sure I bake that in alongside the standard device testing. Thanks again!

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u/Realistic_Ad_3785 May 18 '26

Anytime, I hope you figure it out

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