iOS 18 - Link to VoiceOver & Display settings

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We have an app with a large audience (around 2.1M DAUs) and because of this, we build it with accessibility first in mind.

In that app, we link to specific iOS accessibility settings (such as VoiceOver, Display & Text, etc) in our menu screens, to offer the user a shortcut to customize VO behaviour, text size etc.

Unfortunately, since iOS 18, these links are no longer working, they all open the Settings app, but don't navigate.

It appears (through support) users use these links to easily access the settings, mostly older people trained to go this way in computer courses.

We used to open the settings app through the App-prefs scheme, but seems broken in iOS 18. eg. App-prefs:root=ACCESSIBILITY&path=VOICEOVER_TITLE

I know about the AccessibilitySettings API, but seems it is only limited to once specific feature.

Is there a way we can get these links to work again?

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Frameworks Engineer OP

Apple

3w

Thanks for taking the time to raise this. Changes in behavior like this that impact your users means a lot to us.

Have you filed a bug using the Feedback Assistant tool yet? If not, please go ahead and reproduce the issue (try to open your settings link/shortcut) and then capture a sysdiagnose so we can review the logs.

The Feedback Assistant tool is here along with instructions if you need them, https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

Please reply with the Feedback ID starting with FB and I can make sure it gets to the right team.

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