For what it's worth, we are having the same problem as well. Using VNRecognizeTextRequest on a screenshot of Apple's Screen Time app used to return the text (a list of app names and duration used) ordered from top to bottom. For iOS 15, the ordering of the text is no longer from top to bottom. For example: iOS 14, correct order : ["YouTube","56m","Facebook","55m","Tumblr","45m"] iOS 15, different order : ["56m","55m","YouTube","Facebook","45m","Tumblr"] We've also tried the suggested work around to up the observation top candidates from 1 to 3-9 but none of those changed the order at which the text was picked up.