# Unable to exit editing post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 17, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604 "2026-03-17T08:43:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/1 "2026-03-17T08:43:38Z")
I’m not sure how to reproduce at this point, but…
I often see post editing get into a state where various functions have no effect:
- save edit
- trash
- down chevrons
- close x (top right)
- etc
Thankfully the draft is automatically saved.
I have to force quit the app, relaunch it, open the forum, topic, draft I was at…and then save edit works.
- Discourse Hub app 2.1.1
- iOS 18.7.3
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/2 "2026-03-17T08:57:48Z")
> [@gingerbeardman](#):
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> ios 18.7.3
That’s not exactly the latest version. Not saying that’s the issue but would be good to know if it happens on more recent versions too. Any way you could test that out?
And what Discourse version are you running?
Does it happen on all Discourse forums (if you use multiple)?
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/3 "2026-03-17T10:34:45Z")
It’s definitely not the latest version of iOS, but it is the latest version that will run on my device. So I can’t test iOS 26, sorry. To test it would require prolonged, regular use of an iOS 26 device, or for us to discover repro steps.
I’m just a user so I don’t know the Discourse versions.
But, it has happened on multiple forums.
Discourse Hub app is 2.1.1 (latest public)
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/4 "2026-03-17T10:40:15Z")
My only other thought is that the app is just a wrapper around the various websites, so it’s likely this is a problem in Discourse rather than the app?
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/5 "2026-03-17T12:22:41Z")
While yes it’s a wrapper, that wrapper often carries a lot of specific implementations to adjust for iOS notoriously wonky behaviour. So it’s not a given that the same problem exists on other platforms, browsers, or even browser versions.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/6 "2026-03-17T13:15:01Z")
I’ve encountered this from time to time myself while using the progressive web app version, essentially everything in the composer becomes unresponsive, but unfortunately I can never manage to reproduce the issue consistently so it’s difficult to debug.
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/7 "2026-03-17T13:32:46Z")
Glad it’s not just my fat fingers!
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/8 "2026-04-06T07:40:39Z")
I’ve moved this out of the support/hub to contribute/bugs, given that it applies to the mobile website at least.
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/9 "2026-08-19T12:35:28Z")
When I encounter this on the Discourse app, I used to quit and relaunch the app, but as of today I’ve realised it’s enough to close (swipe down from top notch) and reopen the forum where the post is being edited, and your draft will then pop back up and you can submit.
I guess that’s effectively reloading the page?
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### Author:  [@tannerabread](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tannerabread)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/10 "2026-08-27T20:21:11Z")
@gingerbeardman have you been able to reliably reproduce or is it still somewhat random? And are you still on an older version of iOS?
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### Author:  [@gingerbeardman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerbeardman)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-exit-editing-post/398604/11 "2026-08-27T21:12:09Z")
I haven’t been able to reproduce but I haven’t really tried much. I hit it about twice a week.