iPad Can't Move Cursor in Visual Editor

[miqrogroove]

I've been ramping up iPad usage with WordPress both for mobility as well as testing.

The more I use it, the more frustrated I become with the visual editor. Due to what appears to be multiple bugs with both iOS and WordPress, I am often unable to move the cursor and must switch to the Text tab to do my editing.

When tapping into the Visual editor in a long post, the screen auto scrolls so that the cursor is sitting directly above the keyboard, and the admin bar moves to the middle of the page, covering most of the remaining editing area. This blocks the view of any preceing or following text, and makes it very awkward to write sentences longer than the editor is wide.

To move the cursor to a different part of the post, I have to un-focus the editor and the tap into the editor on a different line. The only place I can reliably land the cursor is at the end of a line, so to change anything in the middle of a paragraph, I have to use the text editor.

Also, it is impossible to scroll up or down while typing because the iPad keyboard stops responding.

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