Apple’s recent release of iOS 15, delivered either a huge snub to disabled people  or a spectacular software stuff-up, and at this point it is hard to tell.

Several Siri commands that provide details on phone calls, voicemails, and sending emails no longer appear to be working.

The following commands used to be functional, but have recently been removed: Do I have any voicemails?, Play my voicemail messages, Check my call history, Check my recent calls, Who called me?, Send an email, and Send an email to…

The move means that blind people have had to ask relatives or friends to help them with their phones.

The Siri feature removals have been documented on the AppleVis forums for blind and low vision users of Apple products. Asking Siri to provide details on recent phone calls or voicemails results in the following response: "I can't help with that, but you can ask me to open the Phone app."

One Tame Apple Press member said that he did not understand the problem because “it's still possible to ask Siri to play the most recent voicemail message that's available, or a voicemail from a specific person, but Siri will not read out a list of all the available voicemails”.  

So, disabled people are not going to get any help from the media which is too keen to write stories about Apple’s share price and value but not about why after providing a useful service to the blind, it suddenly found it inconvenient.