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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
I remembered later that I had the same issue on the iPad Pro 12.9” (2nd Gen) which I no longer own. So I ended up submitting a bug report, because the problem is not restricted to facebook. I’ve had similar issues in a couple of forums as well, in fact anywhere which uses popup emoticons and at this stage it seems to only be Safari, I alos use Firefox and the duckduckgo browser and both of those behave as they should.
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Well I’ve noticed Facebook is pretty wonky most of the time regardless of whether I use Safari for macOS or the Facebook app on iOS & iPadOS. Since I use the apps I don’t access it via Safari for iOS or iPadOS. I think Facebook is poorly developed and they probably don’t have enough oversight on their developers. It reminds me of my brother and his AMC Gremlin back in the mid-1970s. It was a POS from the beginning and he was more often under the hood repairing it than he was driving it! Facebook seems to be the same: They are constantly changing things and not doing a good job at all. I’m lucky if my Wall even shows up half the time. Sometimes messages and comments take days to show up. Its a wonky mess for sure.
I’m having trouble in iOS and iPadOS with selecting text in general, and especially in some forums, and it is worse with the darn mini keyboard than with the full-size one. Another thing they broke is selecting text with the dotted red underlining. We are supposed to be able to tap those words and get spelling suggestions. But I find it nearly impossible to get the spelling suggestions now. I usually get the word selected and the prompt to Copy, Cut, Replace, or Paste, or something similar. All this BS about needing a press of precisely X number of milliseconds and no more to accomplish various editing tasks is not well thought out, especially for people with arthritis. I’m also have difficulty getting the selection point where I want it, even when using the AP1 on my iPad Pro 9.7", I’m quite often by at least a line of text. Dragging selection boundaries is also a crap shoot. As Gump says, its like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get. I have trouble even selecting the drag handle I want, and sometimes it takes off like a rabbit with a coyote on its heels and I wind up with several paragraphs of text selected rather than just a few words on one line.
BTW, my text selection issues are not limited to Safari for iOS and iPadOS by any means. I’m having these issues in many other native and 3rd party apps as well.