IPad double spacing in FaceBook posts

OK I take it back. To test, I posted and replied to my own post. The words posted correctly with a single space in between. However, when I reply to any post but my own, double-spaces appear between words.

I’ve stumbled upon a really stupid work-around for this. (Not sure if it has been suggested in the 5 pages of comments.)

When typing my text into the Facebook comment, I’m careful to ALWAYS use the spelling suggestions in my on-screen keyboard. Doing that, and never hitting the space bar, it seems to avoid the double spacing.

Thanks PixelPshr this made me laugh, possibly because it is true rather than because it sounds ludicrous. I'm going to try it but I'm also going to try the smart punctuation tip just in case. It definitely seems to fit somewhere in iPad/Facebook.com/Forms/iOS typing behaviors.

The more mysterious aspect is the seemingly variable inconsistencies in what we see while typing, versus what's rendered for other users.

Has anyone tried seeing what two iPad users with the same problem and subjective inconsistencies - see while responding to each other and if there's any useful pattern or behavior there?

Also hi apple and Facebook thanks for jumping in to help!

Funnily enough, mine got worse this weekend. I should probably try not to disparage Mark Zuckerberg in my posts...

Still very confident it's Facebook's web scripting/behavior doing weird or bad things when combined with iOS (web/HTML?) forms on iPad. It also occasionally includes typos AND their autocorrect replacement - so it's definitely sucking that behavior from iOS, and it shouldn't be that hard to track down since the symptoms and behavior are so specific.

I found a work around solution for the double spacing on Facebook on another issues website. They said to hit shift+enter instead of just enter. It worked for me, although it’s annoying to remember to do that.

I found a work around solution for the double spacing on Facebook on another issues website. They said to hit shift key +enter instead of just enter. It worked for me, although it’s annoying to remember to do that.

Yeah finally figured it out how to stop the double spacing and i I issue. I went into keyboard and removed the emoji keyboard. Tried it out to see if that was the issue and yup that was it. I then went back and put the emoji keyboard option back and it still worked for me. Now let’s see if it lasts.

Not for me. Removing the emoji keyboard did nothing. The only constant thing is that posts to the mobile site (m.facebook.com) behave normally, but posts to the desktop site (www.facebook.com) show double spaces - most of the time.

Incidentally, the horrible mobile version is the default on iPads, but you can see a Request Desktop Site icon if you pull down the options tab (the rectangle with the arrow). This doesn't always work though, but some combination of that and changing the URL to www.facebook.com works for me.

One other tip, not widely known, is that you can move the cursor easily to anywhere on the post (for editing purposes) by putting 2 fingers anywhere on the keyboard, which then blanks out the letters and changes to operate as a trackpad - much easier than stabbing on the text with a finger!

This has been happening to me on Facebook for a couple months on my iPad only. Not my iPhone. Also, autocorrect isn’t working and when I click on a suggested word, it doesn’t show up in my post. It’s super annoying. I end up having to go back and edit all my posts so I don’t look foolish.

Sadly FB won't change things, why would they? They want users to use the app i'm guessing, plus chances are very high they don't even know about this problem since this is an Apple forum. Even if they did know about it, they don't give a rats *** what us users want, if they did, then they'd stop constantly changing the layout of their site and how things get organized, etc.

Very true. I tried the app years ago and stopped once I realized just how little control you get with the app.

I use Safari to have a measure of control and know that Facebook’s customer response rate, well just like you said, right above ‘don’t give a darn’ and right below ‘couldn’t care less’.

At it’s most basic, all Facebook cares about is people giving it information that they can sell, people friending so they can use that network to spread ads and making money. They don’t care about a user any more than an exterminator cares about a bug they see on the floor.

Facebook does have a feedback link in their site if users want to try to do something they need to use that link to inform facebook there is an issue, or pile on the numbers to show them that it’s widespread. Beyond that....adapt, adjust or move on.

Apple cannot and will not do anything. In Apple’s world its users adjust to fit Apple’s infrastructure and they will not recode safari to accommodate a single site (not to mention that would risk compatibility with the other untold millions of sites people use)

Facebook’s page is broken, they need to fix it.

As much as i hate the FB app for iPad, i'm about ready to start using it, because the double spacing between words is becoming unbearable. I prefer to use Chrome on my iPad because i like the ability to click on an image an do an instant google search for it, and the integration with gmail, etc. I'm holding onto hope that eventually FB will update something and this issue will be fixed, but that hope dwindles each day.

BUT, it's a very peculiar problem since it doesn't happen with all posts/comments. If you deliberately add multiple spaces then they are removed in the final post, as are these double spaces, however these annoying double spaces show up to other people!

I have had this problem forever. As you say, auto double spacing between words occurs when on iPad only, trying to comment on a post in Facebook only. Suggestions keep talking about System Preferences corrections. System Preferences is not available on an iPad using internal keyboard. You'd think someone from Apple would know how to fix this, but alas, 3-4 hours on a telecom with an Apple IT supervisor and my ongoing email vs. Appleid problem has not been solved.

I don’t trust Facebook. I think this is a deliberate overflow bug inserted by them to force people to go use their mobile app instead of via a third-Party browser where they have less control and less monetizing opportunity. Should be such a simple fix. Maybe Apple can fix it for them or disable their bug.