# Mobile Safari login woes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-safari-login-woes/73099
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2017年十月31日 06:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-safari-login-woes/73099 "2017-10-31T06:39:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![tmm1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tmm1/32/81412_2.png) [@tmm1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tmm1)
#### Post date: [2017年十月31日 06:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-safari-login-woes/73099/1 "2017-10-31T06:39:10Z")

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Using Safari on iPhone or iPad to login to this discourse is quite hard, as the various elements on the screen do not respond correctly to touch events. I’m using iOS 11.0.3

> [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/s/bpwb7qr6sqhj63c/IMG_9818.TRIM.MOV?dl=0)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年十月31日 06:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-safari-login-woes/73099/2 "2017-10-31T06:56:54Z")

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Yeah it super sucks was reported back here:

> [@iOS 11 makes Discourse buggy?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-11-makes-discourse-buggy/71140):
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> 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 k…

and here

[https://medium.com/@eirik.luka/how-to-fix-the-ios-11-input-element-in-fixed-modals-bug-aaf66c7ba3f8](https://medium.com/@eirik.luka/how-to-fix-the-ios-11-input-element-in-fixed-modals-bug-aaf66c7ba3f8)

It is brutal, and still not fixed in ios 11.0.3

Only surefire workaround is for us to stop using position fixed which would be a rather big change. We will wait 1 or 2 more minors before doing something drastic here.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年十月31日 06:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-safari-login-woes/73099/3 "2017-10-31T06:56:59Z")

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