I’ve been trying to edit some posts on mobile and with pictures and long text it gets pretty cumbersome. The preview is not really visible at all and when I try to scroll up and down on the input box the keyboard appears. Are there plans to upgrade this?
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Summary of Photo Editing and Previews on mobile Discussion
The discussion revolves around issues with photo editing and previews on mobile devices. Shawn_Kirsch initially reported difficulties with editing posts on iOS, citing a cumbersome interface and keyboard issues. Stephen inquired about the operating system, noting that Apple does not change viewport size.
Shawn_Kirsch mentioned that their current setup auto-populates a side-by-side screen, which is useless. awesomerobot suggested that the desktop view might be the issue and recommended checking the mobile view toggle or appending ?mobile_view=1 to the URL.
After attempting these solutions, Shawn_Kirsch reported that the menu button did not have a mobile toggle, and appending the URL did not work. awesomerobot corrected the URL parameter to ?mobile_view=1 and suggested a possible theme or plugin issue.
Shawn_Kirsch confirmed that the corrected URL parameter caused the page to reload continuously. awesomerobot advised trying safe mode to temporarily disable themes/plugins to diagnose the issue.
Is this on Android or iOS?
Apple doesn’t change the viewport size, hence the fullscreen editor.
On iOS - iPhone 7
Side note: whatever meta is using is quite a bit better than our setup so will look into that.
Ours auto populates a side by side screen which is useless.
Sounds like it’s possible you’re getting the desktop view on mobile? If you open up the ☰ menu, at the bottom there should be a desktop/mobile view toggle. Or you can append ?mobile_view=1 to the URL.
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Nailed it. The menu button at the top of the page doesn’t have a mobile toggle for me.
Appending that to the URL doesn’t work either. I am confused. Any ideas?
Oops I had a typo there, it’s ?mobile_view=1 with an underscore, not a dash — if that doesn’t work it’s possibly a theme or plugin issue? Is everything up to date?
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ah yes, in that case our site is reloading the page over and over. Looks like something wrong with our mobile setup.
any ideas? I can’t figure out what is going on
Does the problem persist if you try using safe mode to temporarily disable themes/plugins? http://your-site-name/safe-mode
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