Problems posting from iPhone (iOS 26)

As per title.

No problem from iPad on the same (?) iOS but from my iPhone it’s an absolute pain, can usually get there eventually, but it feels incredibly random if a post works or not.

Wondering if it’s a thing that might be sorted in an upcoming site update :grimacing:

What exactly is the issue you are experiencing? I’ve had some issues with the positioning of the input window (think that started with iOS 25) but it sounds like you’re finding it only actually creating the post intermittently.

iPadOS is relatively distinct from iOS these days FWIW.

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I get the window jumping high that I have to scroll down to type on my iPhone

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Yeah, it’s the position of the cursor relative to the window and where the text appears. . The cursor appears a few lines down from the top of the window, but the text appears toward the top of the window.

Ok, I’ll try and find out what’s going on - sounds like it’s the same as my issue.

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Looks like there’s fuck all we can do for the moment:

Cliff notes version: The Safari rendering engine (which all iOS browsers use generally, as historically Apple blocked any others, but has since had overturned in court) has changed the way it calculates the window height, and that seems to be causing issues that don’t appear to be fixable.

I might actually dig into the details on that, because it sounds wild to me that it’s not fixable, even if it’s some cludgy, hacky workaround.

Further reading suggests Apple have fixed the bug, but it’s not gotten as far as the actual released version of iOS yet, but should be dealt with shortly. I’m on the iOS beta updates, and I don’t think I’ve seen it recently (it’s always been intermittent, so hard to be certain), so fingers crossed it’s rectified shortly.

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Hate the new iOS design language. Thanks Apple Obama.

I am prepared to live with it though as this has busted the spamming cunts haranguing me multiple times a day

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This bug is making posting a pain for me, but editing anything next to impossible!

Now, that, is well worthwhile functionality.

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