Cursor jumps to end of field

Had the same annoying issue for months but just fixed it by turning off “Search suggestions” within my Bing search engine. Finally worked!!

p.s., I know what your thinking.. Bing!?? Well, why not get rewarded for web searches… after all, we do that a lot.

Turn the onscreen keyboard into a trackpad

1. Touch and hold the Space bar with one finger until the keyboard turns light gray.
2. Move the insertion point by dragging around the keyboard.
3. 
4. To select text, touch and hold the keyboard with a second finger, then adjust the selection by moving the first finger around the keyboard.

See Select, cut, copy, and paste text for more ways to select text.

As others have pointed out, the recommended answer has nothing to do with the question. The actual issue (in my case, which I believe is the same as the original question) is that when editing a text field in a form in a web browser (happens in both Chrome and Safari in MacOS), the cursor suddenly jumps to the end of the text field. This does not seem to be related to the track pad, and only happens for me in a browser, not in any other editor (Notes, Xcode, Word, etc). It has also not happened if I first select at least a single character prior to typing, (but a pretty cumbersome way to edit).

• MacBook Air (M1, 2020, OS: 12.2) issue occurs in both Chrome and Safari.
• Apparently occurs on iOS as well
• Not limited to a particular website

Well, turning off the search suggestions seems to have worked as a work around only fix for me. Means my problem came in after they made changes to Bing as it used to not play the cursor to the end after the first inserted letter of a word. Wish they would now fix it but will leave search suggestions in Bing turned off till they do. That was beyond annoying.

I only see it happening in Safari. Open up Bing type in the search field, move cursor to the start of the line and start typing. after the first character the rest are entered at the end of the search string

I have this problem too, on iPhone, except that it can occur anywhere I type. Could be Notes app, could be while composing an email. In my case, it is not to end of text field, it will jump to an earlier paragraph, or sometimes from the body of email to the subject or address field. It jumps to the middle of an earlier sentence or word, never to the end of a field. Please note: this is while composing a sentence, not inserting the cursor to another sentence. Had anyone else ever experienced this? No one at Apple seemed familiar with this at all. I will look for some of my screen shots on this and post later.

can someone actually answer this question. This answer total misses the point. Apple this is driving me nuts. Please fix

My cursor jumps to the end when I am using Chrome but not Safari.

This is not acceptable Apple, this problem is in Safari, Edge and several other applications with text search bars.

it makes searching a pain in the …! Fix the follow on text after first character and stop this jumping to the end of text nonsense!

Stop blowing your users off.

Here is my solution. I use Chrome. It is too big of an irritation.

This is a no brainer to fix. We can envision the code in our head. Every character is read and the input field is updated and the cursor is place at the end of the text. All that needs to be done is record the position of the cursor and restore that once you update the text in the input field. If Safari was open source it would have been solved in 24 hours.

The solution is to stop using Bing. Unfortunately, with DDG searches becoming more useless by the day, Bing is the only remaining search engine that's useful. Like so much else in the Apple Eco System, things don’t work and never get fixed.

Were there any solution suggested for this issue from Apple?

Users complained the same issue while using our application on Safari.

I observed the issue while using Chrome browser on an IOS device. So, it is happening on both Chrome and Safari browser.

Walt_Whitman,

Can you confirm if you observed it from chrome on an IOS device?

This answer is unhelpful. It does not address the questions asked.