Speak selected text no longer works in Pages on. iPhone iOS 16.1

Hi Trumpnote,

Thanks for contacting Apple Support Communities!

We understand that you're unable to speak selected text within Pages on your iPhone. Do you have your speech settings enabled? This article will guide you: Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback - Apple Support

Change the speech settings

1. Go to Settings  > Accessibility > Spoken Content.

2. Adjust any of the following:

• Speak Selection: To hear text you selected, tap the Speak button.

• Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.

• Speech Controller: Show the controller for quick access to Speak Screen and Speak on Touch.

• Highlight Content: iPhone can highlight words, sentences, or both as they’re spoken. You can change the highlight color and style.

• Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for the onscreen and external keyboards and choose to have iPhone speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions.

To hear typing predictions, you also need to go to Settings > General > Keyboards, then turn on Predictive.

• Voices: Choose a voice and dialect.

• Speaking Rate: Drag the slider.

• Pronunciations: Dictate or spell out how you want certain phrases to be spoken.

If the feature is already enabled using the above steps, we'd recommend disabling it and restarting your iPhone. Once complete, let's enable it again. If the same behavior occurs, we'd suggest reaching out to Apple directly for additional troubleshooting steps at: Official Apple Support

Cheers!

I used to be able to highlight text and have it read to me in iMessage. It’s not working. Even on apps that have this feature imbedded in their app, lost the ability to speak. (The Telegram app)

Hi Trumpnote,

Next, let's reach out to Apple Support: Contact Apple for support and service

Cheers.

Plus the text box is changed color from white lettering on black background to gray lettering on white background it’s very hard to see