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 d…

Hmm … I have no idea where iOS is putting the cursor. After I click “email” and keyboard shows up, I can not see the cursor, start typing and suddenly the cursor appears again. I may be able to trigger one extra focus event to work around this, not sure. I don’t notice this when moving between fi…

The backswipe lag is still killing me :frowning: Is there anything that can be done on our side to mitigate it? I’m also finding text cursor positioning issues. Am using the Discourse app, iPhone X. Seems the cursor doesn’t always correspond to where I tap when using the composer. No doubt this is…

I have seen some cursor positioning issues with the Staff Notes plugin. When the amount of content exceeds what can be displayed inside the textarea the cursor is sometimes located outside of the textarea. It’s only a minor annoyance since I am able to scroll the content so that it’s inside the tex…

[image] Mittineague: You are having similar issues with the Core post composer textarea? It happens sometimes, its not consistent, but when it does it is fairly annoying.

It’s really, really annoying. The kind of problem I can live with as a committed and highly-invested user, but may be a dealbreaker for new / casual users.

I don’t really agree with that, this is me replying from my iPhone X and it is very smooth, I have seen issues but do not have a clear repro

He’s referring to backswipe being a 4 second operation in iOS11. It is annoying, but the workaround is trivial: use the back button instead.

Oh I never use backswipe, that is why I don’t notice it

iPhone SE has random but regular cursor or tap positioning issues. I have not found out what triggers them, but happens on daily basis. Somewhat annoying, especially for a moderator or admin. If you guys have a test engineer on payroll, it might be and idea to perform thorough exploratory testing u…

It is not our fault Apple ship buggy safari. I spent weeks already working around Apple bugs How is a test engineer going to help here?

iOS 11 makes Discourse buggy?

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sam (Sam Saffron) February 4, 2018, 8:11am 28

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Topic		Replies	Views
Mobile Safari login woes Bug	2	925	October 31, 2017
iOS 26 bugs with fixed position elements in Discourse Announcements ios-26 , ios	70	8032	November 14, 2025
iOS 26 bugs still persist on 26.1 Support bug , ios-26 , ios	17	847	December 23, 2025
Discourse Mobile App Support mobile , ios-app	2	164	September 24, 2025
Dealing with iOS 8 Mobile Safari bugs? Feature	64	30570	May 9, 2023

iOS 11 makes Discourse buggy?

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