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.
Update: In using Safari on my laptop more so recently, I’m actually noticing some of the same problems when working on my WordPress site. So these issues are not just isolated to iPadOS. One of the key issues is that the mouse pointer gets out of sync with you are clicking within the WordPress editor. In effect, everything is working fine but then suddenly, wherever you click, the insert indicator is placed a line or two above where you wanted to insert it.