

I’ve experienced variations of these issues on Android for years now. Pretty annoying stuff! I’ve always misattributed these issues to the apps I use or perhaps the system.

Or rather, I thought it was the app that crashed, but it was probably just the keyboard app and not the apps themselves. I’ve also had several apps stop-responding after typing more than two–three sentences. I then have to deselect the password field, try again, and hope it won’t move and dismiss it on the second attempt. (To center it?) The scrolling dismisses the auto-fill context menu. After I tap on a password field, the webpage or app view has automatically scrolled a bit. Likewise, the password auto-fill pop-over has been incredibly unreliable in my web browser and other apps. I had to deselect everything, begin a new text selection, and hope that it works on the next attempt. After I’ve selected some text, the context menu won’t appear, or it’s only shown for a split second before it disappears. I’ve also had issues with text selection and the pop-over context menu that should offer options like Copy and Paste. In some apps, I notice this issue as it happens because they show an overlay scrollbar that suddenly gets shorter while I work on text elsewhere in the document. Similarly, full or partial sentences and paragraphs randomly get deleted while they’re off-screen. So, I don’t even realize it has happened until later. This behavior only happens while none of the affected paragraphs are visible on screen. Other times, text from one sentence or paragraph gets cut and pasted into the middle of another paragraph. I scroll back to where I want to make an edit or type something, and the document jumps back to where it wants it to be instead. The document would then, seemingly on its own, scroll down to the bottom or some other paragraph. The problems affected almost all apps I regularly use.įor example, I place the text cursor somewhere in the middle of a document. However, all text entry and editing of more than a couple of sentences became nearly impossible after my Samsung Galaxy S10e received the One UI 4.0 update (better known as Android 12). In my experience, text input using the software keyboard on Android has always had some quirks and issues.
