Text - ios 17 & 17.01 upgrades - cursor jumps around

Any help on this issue from Apple would be greatly appreciated. I was thinking it was just me but literally SO annoying. If you want to reword ANYTHING in the middle of a text you basically just have to delete everything from the end like an old school word processor. Someone please for the love....help.

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.

I'm adding my voice to the extensive discussion on this bug. Fixing existing bugs is SOOOO much more important than adding new features that may or may not be useful or interesting. The "text jumping" issue is driving my partner crazy. She thinks she must be doing something wrong, but it's obvious that she isn't.

I have the same issue. Cursor can be positioned between lines, then it behaves very unusually until it is positioned correctly (which at this point isn’t easy).

I have a long running note, and in it I have experienced random HUGE jumps in cursor position. It is infuriating, as I am typically trying to capture or edit information and now that it’s randomly relocated it takes too long to find where I was at. This issue has been happening since before iOS 17.

i just got my 15 pro max, and I too am regretting not switching phones as the issues just keep adding up. I might just unload this phone for a Pixel.

Ever since installing iOS 17, my cursor jumps around in the Notes app and it’s driving me crazy. It was perfect in iOS 16 and older, but now in iOS 17.2.1 the cursor jumps around when I’m trying to add content to an existing note it’ll jump up many lines randomly, and it’s not even placed on a line. It’s very much like a bug.

OMG, same here, and it’s driving me crazy! It’s especially bad if I copy Text and paste it into a message. No matter how I try to move my cursor, it jumps down to the end. I hope there’s an easy fix.

I dont know if you describe the same thing but i noticed the cursor does no longer appear at the end but rather more at the beginning. I want to disable that any suggestion is welcome

Yes, as I’ve written above, I’ve been reporting this issue for Months. Here’s a YouTube video I made showing the issue.

https://youtu.be/UBkMxJhJykA?si=cBHGEZicCYPG9cWw

-Mike

Try typing when you dont see your cursor, for me the letter typed would appear before the word instead of its end, it especially happens for google. Once i make a first search through the safari bar and then want to edit my search in the google search bar within the page, cursor disappears.

HELP US APPLE

love the new bubble though seems bigger and more magnified

Apple keeps giving us more things that I don’t need like sending text messages with gentle or fireworks or confetti or silly faces, etc. The ONLY important feature that is glaringly missing is “send text messages later.” My boyfriend’s Samsung A42 Android phone has this feature and at almost 76, he uses it daily. I so wish that I had this feature on my expensive iPhone. I have a MacBook Pro and iPad 12 Pro and I am a 100% Mac/Apple user (so are all my grown kids), but it makes me furious that Apple has not added this feature! 🤬

All they have to do is set it up as an option with the arrow that sends a text message so that when you hold it down longer to send, it gives you the option to set the time and date… just the way they have finally done with their email. I have been using “send later in Gmail for many, many years and so Apple finally has added that in their email. There’s absolutely no reason on earth why they shouldn’t or can’t add it to text message send options I have read all kinds of things as to why they don’t do this and I don’t buy any of it. The shortcut app is ridiculous and adds time and steps, and is not worth it, and does not work with a single one time text…there is no quick and easy way to do it or delete/modify. I have messed around with it a few times. I’m also furious that when I am dictating or typing in a text field that I cannot reset my cursor anymore with iOS 17.0.3 that I just put on my phone a couple days ago. In all my years of iPhone use this has never been a problem until now. What the heck?!?!?!😳

I could not agree more that this is totally ridiculous that we have to use such a workaround. As I said above, it does work well, but this problem should have been resolved months ago. I first started reporting this in late august via the Apple Feedback App// the one we use for submitting bug reports.

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!

The previously suggested hard reset has not done anything for me.

OFF TOPIC: to add insult to injury, some appointments in my reminder have shifted with the most recent change from Daylight Savings Time.

A related problem others might have is that the are unable to double tap a word (where you have not had the cursor go back to the bottom by a double tap. If that happens you can power off and then on. On mine that fixes it but the cursor going to the bottom problem still exists. Does anyone have IOS17 that is not experiencing these problems?

WTF???

Has Apple even replied to this inquiry??

I see I am not the only one with this issue. Which is just one of many typing text issues since updating to iOS 17.

****, just typing this meagre message has been triple time consuming, due to issues with:

keyboard, cursor movement, keyboard accuracy / sensitivity, spelling/vocabulary/grammer, etc…

Steve Jobs would be overwhelmingly proud at the Luring, entrapping, spyware, which his vision and company has been replaced with.

haha.