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Text area under keyboard

11 years ago in iPad • updated by 1 week ago • 8

When my document gets longer than about 100 lines, the document won't scroll to the end, so the area where I want to add new text is blocked by the keyboard.

Rotating the screen helps sometimes, but is inconsistent. Leaving the app helps sometimes. Copying the doc and pasting it back in helps sometimes. Sometimes none of these tricks work.

it is most likely to occur when leaving and returning to the app.

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11 years ago

Which version of iOS are you using?

11 years ago

Happened with both iOS 7 and 8.

11 years ago

Because this problem happened predominantly with TextTastic under iOS 7, when it continued to happen with my switch to 8, I came here looking for an answer.

As I have used 8 more, though, I saw the same behaviour in other apps. Turns out that the real problem was at the OS level. A reset of all settings proved to be the fix.

Sorry to have sent you looking for a problem that didn't exist with your excellent software.

11 years ago

Thanks for letting me know! I also saw in my tests that iOS 8 still has some issues with the on-screen keyboard - especially when using the split keyboard. Apple probably changed a lot under the hood when they added support for custom system-wide keyboards, so there are still a few bugs that should be fixed in the following releases.

1 week ago

This is still or again an issue with iPadOS 18.5 and app version 10.7.

The iPad is Pro 12.9 (5th Gen).

I have this all the time in landscape and portrait orientation.

Any plans to fix that?

1 week ago

Do you have a screenshot or screen recording video so I can see the problem?

I'm especially interested in your keyboard configuration, because I don't see such an issue on my devices.

(You are responding to an 11 year old topic, so I doubt that this is the same issue.)

1 week ago

Video portrait: ScreenRecording_06-26-2025 15-15-51_1.mov

Video landscape: ScreenRecording_06-26-2025 15-15-51_1.mov

In the first video I touch line 40. When I scrolled down after keyboard pops up you see the cursor flashing. Same on second video, I touch line 27 and after scrolling down you see the cursor in that line.

The keyboard configuration as screenshots:

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Please, let me know whether you need more or other information.

The issue in this thread was‘nt marked „fixed“, so I just added my finding. ;-)

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1 week ago

Thanks a lot for the videos, that's very helpful.

So the problem is that when you tap a line on the screen and the on-screen keyboard is shown, the text editor doesn't scroll up and the line you tapped is hidden by the keyboard.

You are right, this is annoying.

I'll try to improve it so the location you tapped is scrolled into view when the keyboard is shown.

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