# iOS: "Save" button concealed when editing first post

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 21, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722 "2017-02-21T15:06:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/1 "2017-02-21T15:06:49Z")

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The save button is concealed when trying to edit a post:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/0/e00b1596111d023e6729fe7526f564fa5645ac6c.PNG)

iOS10, iPhone 7, Safari

Think it’s been like this for a while and I work around by hitting “Done” on the keyboard then clicking the button. I worry that new users may not know to do this.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/2 "2017-02-21T15:15:30Z")

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You mean when editing first post only.

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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/3 "2017-02-21T15:17:21Z")

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~~You’re right - I have just tried other posts and the button appears correctly.~~

Nope:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/4/b4185df6cd05c0c826b8b85b6d18e0e411162877.PNG)

Looks to me that the predictive text UI in iOS is related to this maybe? I think it’s on by default.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/4 "2017-02-21T15:22:22Z")

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You are scrolled up in that screenshot. Try scrolling down. The header in Safari collapses to a smaller size when you scroll down but expands when you scroll up.

Looking at this more closely, maybe @eviltrout did not account for the full height the last time I asked him to look at this…

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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/5 "2017-02-21T15:26:15Z")

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I hadn’t actually scrolled, myself.

I clicked the pencil icon on my post, then clicked the text window to begin editing. Then the iOS UI concealed the button.

The user can remedy the situation every time this happens. But as a user I’d want to see the button clearly in the editor without having to scroll. Particularly if I am a new and non-technical user.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/6 "2017-02-21T15:29:25Z")

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See this topic but I feel we must have done this wrong now.

> [@Composer section too big on iphone 10.1 Safari](https://meta.discourse.org/t/composer-section-too-big-on-iphone-10-1-safari/54907/2):
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> Yeah our code here is ridiculoulsly aggressive which I told @sam about but it did not get fixed. Can you take a look tomorrow @eviltrout Check in all iPhone models 5 and later please

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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/7 "2017-02-21T15:44:46Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I feel we must have done this wrong now.

Knowing Apple, I’m sure Mobile Safari is constantly moving the goalposts - I know issues like this are not trivial to fix. Appreciate your efforts, and Discourse is already miles ahead of other forum software on mobile browsers.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/8 "2017-02-22T00:31:00Z")

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I’ll take a crack at this, removing 10% of height for the editor on iOS.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c191e2e84c3c52f886e772f8b2a4c7efaaa690d1](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c191e2e84c3c52f886e772f8b2a4c7efaaa690d1)

I believe it is impossible to get the actual viewport size because the browser does not communicate the size of any of the on-screen phone UI (keyboard, autocomplete, etc).

The guesstimate ratios we are using now for iOS are

- 45% of screen no matter what you’re doing (creating a topic, or writing a reply)

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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/9 "2017-02-23T09:37:12Z")

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After recent changes I’m finding the editor button shows consistently on iPhone. Many thanks @codinghorror

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-save-button-concealed-when-editing-first-post/57722/10 "2017-02-27T20:01:54Z")

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