IPad double spacing in FaceBook posts

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!

The only workaround I know of is to go to the mobile site m.facebook.com

@JayKahl - There is NO fix. It's a code problem on Facebook's end and until they change their programming code it's going to keep happening.

I haven’t done a lot of testing but so far using m.facebook.com (the mobile phone version of the site) instead of www.facebook.com seems to work better for posting. Hope it helps

I'm afraid I don't have a solution, but I had this same before, and it just came back for me within the past 24 hours. But then, for some reason, my iPad has always had issues with Facebook, and this issue seems exclusive to iPads interacting with Facebook, as I do not have this issue with any other device(android, PC), or any other website on my iPad.

I'm having the SAME problem and getting double spaces when typing comments on Facebook using my ipad. I'm not using the ios app, I'm using Chrome and going to www.facebook.com. The problem just started here within the last month or so and i hate it. I don't experience this problem on any other website or using any other app on my ipad, only facebook.com and it happens on both chrome and safari, so it has to be an ipad issue? It's not my Clamcase keyboard because I'm using it to type this reply and I'm having no problems, and i don't have problems at any other time, only with facebook.com

I too have this issue on Facebook only and it’s getting worse now it keeps typing words twice, it won’t use apostrophes in words, it always types double spacing and often won’t let me post a comment.

I’m hoping someone has some suggestion, I’ve tried logging out and back in.

Just appears to be a Facebook issue - please can anyone help????

The same thing is happening to me. I had other issues too, like the wrong auto-correcting, doubled words (like iI someone else mentioned), plus a few more. When the issues spread to the Notes app, I started to really worry. Eventually, I figured out that I had accidentally enabled the Dutch keyboard, which apparently does all sorts of exciting things. Even after I solved those problems, the double-spacing issue on Facebook is persisting, along with not auto-correcting any contractions. So far, I haven't had the same issues with Chrome, but I've barely used Chrome, so it may be just a matter of time.

I’m glad it’s not just me... double spaces after words and autocorrected words leave the incorrect word alongside the corrected one. Facebook on Safari on iPad, as I refuse to use the app. It started the same day Facebook went over to their own atrocious emojis. It has to be a Facebook problem.

Same problem at Facebook.com with iOS 12.1.1 on the software keyboard in safari and chrome. When I switch to bluetooth keyboard, then the problem doesn’t show. It happens in a post following the first word.

It is a facebook issue. I experience double words ONLY on the facebook site.

They changed how they coded their page and it’s making things come up wrong. There’s nothing wrong with your iPad, its Facebook. And its up to them to fix it

I hate using the App because it looks like sorta scaled up mobile trash on my iPad Pro and I refuse to split between Facebook Messenger and Facebook itself - there's zero benefit for me in that decision and it's just one more piece of software to manage. Facebook is where I "keep" friends and relatives at a nice safe arm's length for casual conversations, invites and whatnot. Facebook wants it to be more fundamental than that - and maybe it is for some folks, but I also don't have a better network for that kind of relationship depth. These aren't folks I ever text, for example, or work directly with.

But it's so obviously related the way the HTML forms are working with the iPad keyboard/Spellchecker/Autocorrect that I'm amazed it hasn't been fixed yet. Fix would need to happen on Facebook's end since it's their webcode and functionality.

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This has been suggested before, it's not a fix. It may have temporarily helped you but the problem will come back. Plus that only "may" help on Safari for a bit, it doesn't fix Chrome. This is clearly a coding problem on Facebooks end and until they update their code for Facebook on an ipad browser, we're all hosed. I don't see them fixing anything because they want people to use their mobile ipad app.....which is total trash. If they would redesign their ipad app i'd be happy to use it.

Total speculation, but I've convinced myself Facebook engineered this and it's intentional. That's why it only affects users with iPads that don't install/use the app. They have "experimented" with influencing users many, many times in the past—they're the Josef Mengele of dotcoms—so we may be their unwitting subjects. I know for me the issue went away for a brief period and then came back again.

Somewhat good news is that there IS a workaround, if you choose to use it: navigate to the mobile site. Either change www.facebook.com to m.facebook.com and/or choose "Request mobile site" from the ellipsis menu (in Chrome). Safari has a similar option.

It IS a facebook issue. If it wasn’t then folks would be having issues on other sites as well.

Apple will not adjust their coding to accommodate a single user/site. And the fact that it is not happening on other sites suggests that it’s facebook’s site that is broken, not others, so why ‘reward’ facebook by adjusting the coding of mobile safari and other browsers just to accommodate them?

Facebook can’t/won’t fix it. If you can contact them and actually get a person, you will probably be told to just use their mobile app and all is well.

Users face these options

Get used to it

Use Facebooks’ app if you can’t get used to it

Stop using Facebook if you dont’ want to use their app or get used to the bug

Facebook is not known for its responsiveness. I personally tried their app years ago and abandoned it within days because I could not control what I saw.

Basically there are two behemoths here - Apple and Facebook. Apple is in the ‘right’ in that the issue is not their fault. Facebook is in the ‘wrong’ because the coding issue is on their end. Neither will blink and users should either adjust, do what they want you to do, or walk away from the service. About the only thing that may draw Facebook’s attention is a lot of people leaving their service....BUT the folks here raising concerns about the issue aren’t even a drop in the bucket of Facebook’s users....in other words even if every single person that posted here abandons facebook over the issue, facebook wont’ even notice. It’s dozens protesting an issue trying to matter in a sea of MILLIONS of users.