When using Chat on iOS there is an issue where if you are typing a long message and want to select text to cut, copy or replace it does not let you adjust the selection of words by moving the two dots on either end of the text. You can only select one word at a time.
Have observed this on iOS 17.5.1 and in every browser I’ve tried (Safari, Chrome and Firefox).
iPhone 15 plus and latest iOS — it worked for me as it should 
you can move the dots around to select more words? I’m on a 15 Plus and it does not work.
Just had another person try it out on an iPhone 13 Pro and latest iOS and it doesnt work for them either.
Yeah, anywhere and as much I want. Same thing with old iPad 5th gen — well it is not on iOS of course.
We’ve had more users complain about being unable to highlight / cut + paste text in the composer window on mobile which makes writing / editing long messages difficult
Can someone on the discourse team please at least check this out and acknowledge that there is a bug / issue with this?
I’m guessing chat must not be heavily used as this seems like a pretty basic usability issue for mobile users. Thank you.
Yes it can happen in certain situations, just like it can happen at other places out of chat. No eta of when we will have the resources to try to improve this/workaround ios bugs.
