Google TalkBack

My phone came with this already activated. I could find no way of turning it off and was about to send it back. I had one more try and managed to get rid of it. This is an utter nightmare and I now avoid it like the plague. 90% of people will never use this intrusive piece of junk so why not make it optional rather than impose it upon the rest of us?

An irritating app. Always notifying to download one or other languages to download even after downloading the same. It is too much disturbing me. I cannot use my phone as this useless notifications are coming on the top of the phone when I switch on and unable to read other messages. Can't you fix the bug/problems permanently.

My wife activated this garbage on her phone by mistake and I can tell you that was one serious mistake. It took me 1.5 hours to work it out and deactivate it, as it's a pre-installed app on her phone all I could do was uninstall updates and disable it and I would recommend you do the same if you have it on your device.

Well, it does it's job! It looses a point for being hard to turn off, it was a test of my mental capacity trying to turn it off! I felt like I was on The Crystal Maze! It took me 20 odd minutes trying to turn it off as it renders gestures useless, or if it doesn't I did something wrong. However it's great for helping me when I've not got my reading glasses on.

I've never used this app myself, but I'd like to let everyone know that this app was not made to be entertaining, it's not a video game or a way to pass the time, it was made to be USEFUL, to be used by those who are visually impaired. So to all of the reviewers who have called this app "boring", I say: Calm down! It's a ACCESSIBILITY APP!

I can't keep it turned off. I know some people need it but God damn it most of us don't. It should be a SIMPLE SETTING TO TURN IT OFF until it is turned back on if ever. VOICE IS TOO LOUD. I hate this annoying time waster.

I'm using it to read web novels by using the continuous playback functionality (done by shaking the device). I'd still like something more button pressy to start reading a page online, and also would love if this didn't get interrupted by pressing the volume button or turning off the screen.

It still has a few bugs to work out. My friend wanted to test the latest version, he said it was way better then when it first came out. The only problem i had was located the setting. I would love to have a quick app logo on the screen, i use the app for reading, if you accidentally move wrong or tap the screen you have to start the paragraph over,

The Google talkback is very comfortable and helpful for low vision and blind people. It has created a great platform for the visually challenged to use touch screen mobile despite of getting stuck up with the outdated keypad mobiles. In such context Google is offered a great privilege to head such a wonderful app that is really useful and makes specially challenged people feel extra special. And to all those who have mentioned that talkback as irritating should have been outdated with technology for not knowing the value of it. It is an inbuilt app that is optional for users to activate or not. Real wise people will feel the importance of it. A very big hats off to google for creating such a facility indeed improving and considering the development of all group of people in town.

This probably the worst app I even seen in my life. It took over my phone, it would not yet me click on any app and when I restart my phone it wouldn't let me put in my password for about an half an hour. It was so frustrating, I almost broke my phone twice. I had to use my stylist to press the God damn buttons and that was frustrating too because I had to do it gently damn

I don"t know how others found this helpful, it was frustrating trying to use. Only responds my telling it to power off/on. Wasted time tapping my tablet to death trying to get out of it or to swtch apps. Wish could uninstall.

My "ok google" command should not be linked to this. This app stops multiple times a day. Now it's a system update and I have no choice. It is super glitchy and turn off my side buttons randomly. Because it's a system update I have to go through all the settings and correct them almost every day just to keep my phone working. Terrible!!! I love that this is an option for those that need it but it should also be an option not to have it. For those that do need it, it needs to work!

Need permanently remove this app not reload into my apps again. I am not blind or vision impaired why I need this app at all. Stop adding junk into my phone storage, run out of space. I just wonder why most Us users using iPhone. Time for me consider giving iPhone a try.

Where do it turn it on at confused with goggles, and assistant. Keyboard on Google chrome is show is the app which produces the button which activates talk listening feature. Maybe gestures urban dictionary and musical song instrument snipping tool to track down simple thoughts. Kids got iPods in schools kindle fire and graphite wiki kindle. Any way fire ahoy you there? Another dropped call again. GPS is off by invisible structure parking garage every time every device hell help is on the way.. I'm in the lake in the GPS

Rendered the phone unusable. Installed for my sight impaired father, took 15 minutes to get rid of it. Presumably an octacore running at 2.5gb and 6gb ram might work.

As i gave mentioned google is the best . I want to request google to add a feature here for us "visually impaired persons" so that we can easily pick up the incoming calls whether its a normal call or watsapp calls ,vodeo calls,etc through long press volume down key or any hardware button. It will help us a lot. Aa most of the devices do not offer home button like samsung and iphone so please google add this for us the way you offer to disconnect the call through power button. Thank you

Constant speaking of "current...." this and"Alternatives are available"..... is very annoying. Speaks of every f***ing thing that is done that is done. Also you now have to double tap on everything.

Latest version is severly broken with Android 7.1.1. When turned on it's almost impossible to turn off because the overlay blocks the slider. If you turn this off in the accessablity settings then the volume buttons stop working. Unfortunately this is a core component on my phone so I can only uninstall the update but I also have to disable automatic updates or I'll just end up with this broken version again. Update 25 Sep 2017: Talkback is turned off but I still had to do the following to get volume control back. Open Settings, Accessablity. Select Talkback. Select the Settings button above the enable slider. 1. Set sound volume to match media volume. 2. Turn off the Talkback Suspend and Resume keyboard shortcut. Interestingly the keyboard shortcut option is now grayed out and I can't change it after turning it off. App still only rates 1 star simply because I should not have to modify a DISABLED apps settings to restore system functionality.

The google TalkBack is a very sensitive speech software for visually impaired and low vision users, but the challenges I have with the software is that when ever I am on a group chat on WhatsApp and I try to view the active participants of that entire group, the google TalkBack tend to pause for a period of 2/3 minutes before it performs it's functions all over.

It keeps popping up every few mins and interrupts whatever I am doing. It WONT let me turn it off ether

It's like a Virus! I Uninstalled it because I'm not a blind person and don't need another self downloaded app taking up space. After Uninstall, it reinstalled itself like a Virus overnight. No wonder it has 1 Billion downloads. It must be illegal to download itself on other people's phones that did Not want or need it. Where is the FTC when you need them?

I hate that this is always in my way on my phone. It does not work the way it's described I'm uninstalling I hope it doesn't ruin my other phone apps

when I turned this feature on it rendered my device completely useless, I could not scroll pages, and luckily when I double tapped settings from my home screen it was already showing "accessibility" if not for that I couldn't have scrolled to turn "google talkback" off. my only other option would have been to see if I could command my phone to turn it off thru "ok Google" was hoping this app would read me articles but it ended up being a nightmare.

Okay like so many others it would not shut off, I was looking at my phone like it's about to grow wings when I throw it across the room lol. Reading these reviews I can't help but laugh because I can only imagine the facial expressions probably like mind.

This app is essential for many. It makes phones/tablets usable. Just one word for those who treat it as "piece of junk": I sincerely hope you'll never need it.

I almost smashed my phone because of this stupid app.It locked my phone,it would not work at all until by chance I found how to unlock it.I needed my phone as I had an household emergency at the time.This app should not be pre loaded on android phones.

As a counselor for blind and VI, this app is not user friendly for sighted or visually impaired persons. Attempting to assist them with navigating their phones via this app is extremely frustrating, and they have enough frustrations as is without adding on not being able to use their own cell phones. Talkback needs subsettings to accomodate both demographics to better pair with google assistant as well as limit freustration by allowing a person to choose which feature to turn on (i.e. gesture features on/off: break them down to choose how they would like to gesture. Have the action have consistent results, instead of working AT times) Make it less difficult. Simplicity is key for any impairment. This app is not simple. Its too complex. Google has the means to make this work....hopefully they will soon get it taken care of.

Please fix some bugs for example TalkBack not speak buttons talk back speak only; unavailable button and available balance and available; this is very large problem for blinds so please fix this problem

I want an option to be able to remove unwanted apps from my phone if I do not have a use / need for it I want to be able to remove it when I want. It's OK if it comes wired into your phone if the user can remove it after X amount of days...

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT TOOL FOR PEOPLE WITH DIABETIC VISION ISSUES, AND IT ALLOWS ACCESS TO EDITORIALS SO MUCH EASIER. THANK YOU FOR THE DEVELOPMENT!!

It's really outstanding app. Though I'm not blind, I explored it and found very useful.. will help those with poor vision and blinds..

The app is great but still needs A LOT of optimizations. The A7 on marshmallow does not allow voice notes in whatsapp without talkback talking right through the whole note. As well its hard to find the battery to tell how much power is left

What happens with downloading english for uk waiting for wifi always showing up in my notification bar? Even after i download all voice texts. I want it missing from my phone But it is not lost even though I have disabled google tts. What you really want exactly?

I tried it. OMG That thing is heck, but yeah it would be great for the blind, but wtfudge it's so hard to turn it off that I was scared my parents would take my tablet away I almost cried cause I like utube and playing games

I hate this annoying app it is a motor mouth when it talks back I almost smashed my phone because you can't turn it off and my phone got locked from passcode my device is a piece of s*** I cannot stand how this device works like that and misbehaves other apps and it also says Google Plus has stopped I am getting upset because I cannot turn it off or uninstall it because they'll just reinstall itself I'm going to turn off all updates in there is no or is it a TTY hearing aid I don't know what the heck it is

I keep disabling this app but it keeps updating and starting on its own. AT&T should not pre-installed apps. I have no use for them and cannot uninstall.

For those of you complaint about not being able to uninstall this app, you do know that there is an uninstall button right. Look, I just uninstalled it. Hey it's not there anymore. I'll reinstall. Yep. Hmm...

For some reason, even though this app is turned off on my phone, I can hear my phone telling me "Verizon wireless" and I don't know why and it's kinda freaking me out???

It does not work as it should there are many glitches for the apps run system you need to take a look and work through it other people should not attempt to use this app

So what is the difference between this app (Google TalkBack) and the text to speech app which are both installed on my phone but somehow to summon them to my aide is impossibly arcane.