Hello, long time reader, first time poster. I’ve noticed iOS 11has managed to make Discourse a bit screwy in two ways. A) press the back button in Safari has a different behaviour to swiping back. Back button is almost instant whereas swipe back goes to white page before showing previous page. A delay of a second or two. B) When trying to merge to a different topic, the text box keeps jumping down a line until you are typing over boxes and buttons Anyone else have here any of these bugs? I know it’s replicated by other users on a community I’m involved with.

I’ve noticed the back swipe lag too. And when dialogs eg Change Timestamp are shown on iPhone, the cursor doesn’t correspond to the tap location on the dialog making it almost impossible to use.

Textboxes in position fixed is already reported [תמונה] Sam Saffron @samsaffron @jonathandavis this one is quite painful for us medium.com/@eirik.luka/ho… hopefully you can sort it in the next service release (reported) 5:51 AM - 25 Sep 2017 Back swipe is also an iOS bug, reproducible on mobile twitter or any site with lots of js

Yeah the back swipe is brutal, maybe iOS 11.1 will fix? Back button works fine. So far so bad.. no fixes in sight.

@awesomerobot I wonder, can we try out: What we found to be the best solution in our case is to keep the modal fixed, but to stretch it to the edges of the window, hiding the rest of the content in the body with display: none;. This would remove the problem of the body height being higher than the viewport and there would be no background scrolling when focusing on the input. The bug here is really brutal on ios and its been more than a month now and still no fix. Besides hiding stuff behind modal more aggressively on mobile seems like a good idea anyway.

iOS 11.1 was released today, and the issue is still present. Personally I think a dedicated login page would be ideal, but I’m happy to help implement either approach.

Wow, well if you want to give it a shot I am super happy to have mobile use a dedicated route / page for login. Warning though, the Ember stuff is like entering another world when you come from a server generated pages background, there is quite a curve getting used to double routers and so on. It resolves the issue for ios mobile but would still leave some gaps on ios desktop (iPad). I would recommend giving the modal hack on ios a shot first (always hide body when modals are open on ios) cause it is way easier of a change. Then see if you feel up to the whole dedicated route thing for mobile.

OK, this is “fixed” per: UX: iOS 11 modals now hide all background committed 08:31PM - 07 Nov 17 UTC (UTC) [תמונה] SamSaffron +30 -0 This fixes issues where login looks very buggy on iOS see also: https://meta.di…scourse.org/t/ios-11-makes-discourse-buggy/71140/7 I am using the term “fixed” here because it technically is Apple’s bug and I dislike contorting for them, that said, we just can’t have our “first experience” with Discourse be so flaky on a super popular device. It hurts us. I think overall even without the existing iOS bug the experience on mobile is better, there is just almost no value in showing the “faded” page behind. That said it can probably be hacked so it’s positioned absolutely with an offset if the hack was a bit more sophisticated. The hack applies to both IPhone and IPad.

Thank you @sam - definitely the right thing to do for the sake of users. I’m very annoyed at Apple for this Safari bug and will keep an eye out for any forthcoming fix from them.

Is this a part of the generic iOS 11 woes, or a separate issue? [IMG_0112] On the iPhone SE the composer’s last row falls behind the keyboard. iOS 11 + Discourse 1.8.

iOS 11 makes Discourse buggy?

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awesomerobot (Kris) 31 באוקטובר,‏ 2017,‏ 2:41pm 6

Sure we can try it out, looks like it should work — ultimately from a user’s perspective they’re no longer modals at that point. Would it be significantly more work to make those modals separate pages on mobile?

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