I’m not sure what’s going on but more and more I’m finding it difficult to use my iPad to write posts online, either for my WordPress site here or for Substack.
In effect, it’s like something has changed within Safari for iPadOS in the last few months at least (maybe with iPadOS 26?) and it’s making it next to impossible to write online with it, due to issues and bugs.
Like when using WordPress, I can type out some text. But then when I go to select a portion of it, I can’t. Like the touch capability is completely gone with regards to the text but I can still click on buttons like to save a draft of the page. I then reload the page and suddenly I can click on the text again.
And when using Substack, I can click and tap a portion of the text to insert the pointer to type additional text there but when I want to format anything more than a word, I can’t drag the selection area to more than just that word.
This is driving me nuts and forcing me to write on my old 2015 MacBook Air more and more. At least, it’s still doable though, even though it’s not that powerful of a device.