Text - ios 17 & 17.01 upgrades - cursor jumps around

When I touch screen to relocate the cursor in the middle of text, it relocates itself to the bottom of the entry.


I relocate it again and touch longer, it jumps to another part of the text.


It takes me at least 4 times just to get the cursor to stay where I touch!


Earlier versions didn’t relocate the cursor like this.


Very time consuming & I try not to edit..

iPhone 11, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 24, 2023 1:18 PM

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Oct 26, 2023 10:42 PM in response to Jubilee2005

I was having a terrible time aligning the cursor in the Wordle tool of The Free Dictionary by Farlex.


Today’s release of iOS 17.1 fixes the cursor alignment-jumping issue about 90% of the time. It’s not perfect, but neither is it uber frustrating like it was before iOS 17.1.


It’s still not as intuitive and precise as it was before iOS 17.0 (when everything seemed to work as expected.) But it’s much, much better.


Even now… with iOS 17.1… if I align the cursor dead center between letters (where I want the cursor to land), the cursor still often moves way to the right… usually after the end of the target word.


But a slight change in how I place the cursor makes placement more controllable and workable. (This may be an issue with just the Wordle tool. I see better results in other applications.)


In the Wordle tool, I get the best results by moving the cursor from right to left, and aligning it jusssst right-of-center of the letter after which I want to place the cursor. For example, placing the cursor just right-of-center of “A” in the word “BLAST” will now almost always result in the cursor being placed between the “A” and “S”. Before iOS 17.1, the cursor would almost always jump to just after the “T”. It was so frustrating that I frequently just gave up and retyped the word from scratch, including whatever changes I wanted to add.


It’s much better now. Thank you Apple.

Oct 27, 2023 1:45 PM in response to Jubilee2005

The fact that this has existed since before the new iPhone launch, and even afterwards, and through every single update since is ridiculous. Every single Apple device on the planet has this issue, even the devs, and they haven’t fixed it … that is how NON-customer-centric APPLE has become.


As of today, in this very moment, nothing has changed.

Oct 30, 2023 1:08 PM in response to mbork

Glad to hear this. The issue isn’t as bad for me since the update but I’m still experiencing the problem intermittently. Random cursor placements happen on long messages but I am now getting it closer to where I want to make a change. Regardless… it’s absolutely maddening. Making me miss iOS 16!

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