Hello! We have a long time user (we’ve been self hosted on Discourse for 11 years (!) now, so a heartfelt thank you to the team btw :heart: :partying_face:) that can’t create new topics on their Safari mobile browser on iOS anymore. To them it looks like this, with the issue being a crushed text e…

This is specifically because there’s not enough space to type right? We can probably do an improvement pass to ensure we always have at least a single line of space here for typing no matter the device size… but for now, if they hide the toolbar with the ☰ button at the top of the composer, are the…

The ☰ button does help them and gives them a single line now, so they are much happier. Example from them here: [image] There isn’t really much room to work with and it’s surprising that even on newish phones it gives so little vertical space with the keyboard like that. I guess the category / ta…

[image] fearlessfrog: It doesn’t look like on mobile you can actually edit in full screen mode but that could be perhaps a future way around this space restriction? It’s not a full screen but a preview mode. Just like on desktop you cannot edit in the preview. I remember that Don once create…

[image] Moin: I remember that Don once created a full screen button for mobiles which helps because it hides the title and category field - just like the preview. But I haven’t tried it, so I don’t know if it’s still working. I just gave it a go and can’t seem to get the icon to appear on Dis…

I updated the full screen theme component to fix it up with latest discourse conventions and it seems to be working well. I’ll try up and tidying up do a PR on the original - thanks for the info again! :heart: fearlessfrog/composer-fullscreen-mobile: This theme component is adding a fullscreen butt…

[image] Moin: An alternative in your case could be to hide the gif icon on mobiles or move it to the toolbar instead of the separate button at the bottom This is the new default [image] Discourse Gifs Theme component Tiny update on this component: …

New Topic Editor Too Small iOS 26.5 Safari Web

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Moin June 10, 2026, 1:32pm 9

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New Topic Editor Too Small iOS 26.5 Safari Web

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