How to prevent VoiceOver from reading text INSIDE an image?

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In the example below, VoiceOver (in both iOS 18 and 26) reads the text contained within the image after the .accessibilityLabel, introduced by a “beep.”

VoiceOver: Purple rounded square with the word 'Foo' in white letters. Image [beep] foo.

I’d like it to only read the accessibility label. As a developer focused on accessibility, I make sure every image already has an appropriate label, so having iOS read the image text is redundant.

Sample Code

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        Image("TextInImage")
            .resizable()
            .scaledToFit()
            .frame(width: 64, height: 64)
            .accessibilityLabel("Purple rounded square with the word 'Foo' in white letters.")
    }
}

Sample Image

Drop this image in to Assets.xcassets and confirm it's named TextInImage.

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Answer 1

Bikrrr OP

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Accepted Answer

Turns out that there's a setting to turn this off, so probably something that shouldn't be suppressed by the developer.

The setting can be found in:

Settings › Accessibility › VoiceOver › VoiceOver Recognition › Text Recognition

Screenshot

VoiceOver Text Recognition.png

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Answer 2

Bikrrr OP

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BTW, if anyone knows how to force a specific size for an inline image in a post, I’d love to know!

Whenever I include high-DPI images, I set the width and height so they don’t display huge like the ones above—but it never seems to work.

Is this a forum software bug, or am I missing something?

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Answer 3

jlilest OP

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If you need to do it from code, you need to clear the is image accessibility trait. If you do that, you likely want to add image to the accessibility label.

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