Safari on iOS 17 copy and paste from text areas broken.

If you copy some text from a site and then paste it into a text area, it appears that Safari on iOS 17.0.1 pastes the raw URL encoded text.


For example, copying this text from: https://thesession.org/tunes/106


X: 1

T: The Swallowtail

R: jig

M: 6/8

L: 1/8

K: Ador

|:cBA eAA|cBA edc|BGG dGG|gfe dcB|

cBA eAA|cBA e2f|gfe dcB|cBA A2d:|

efg a2b|a2b age|efg a2b|age g2d|

efg a2b|a2b age|gfe dcB|cBA A2d:|


When pasted into a text area in some other page, and I've tried this on multiple pages, results in:


x:%201%0AT%3A%20The%20Swallowtail%0AR%3A%20jig%0AM%3A%206/8%0AL:%201/8%0AK:%20Ador%0A%7C:cBA%20eAA%7CcBA%20edc%7CBGG%20dGG%7Cgfe%20dcB%7C%0AcBA%20eAA%7CcBA%20e2f%7Cgfe%20dcB%7CcBA%20A2d:%7C%0Aefg%20a2b%7Ca2b%20age%7Cefg%20a2b%7Cage%20g2d%7C%0Aefg%20a2b%7Ca2b%20age%7Cgfe%20dcB%7CcBA%20A2d:%7C%0A


I'm seeing this behavior even doing copy and paste in a text area within the same site.


Not sure who to report this to at Apple.


All the best,


Michael Eskin



iPad Pro (2nd generation)

Posted on Sep 25, 2023 8:47 AM

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Safari on iOS 17 copy and paste from text areas broken.

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