Moving an item on iOS buggy?
Several people have mentioned the difficulties with moving an item up or down on the native iOS app for ipad and iphone. Here's what I've found.....
It is nearly impossible for me to reliably get into the "move mode" to move an item on an iPhone (native app) or iPad (native app).
To be fair, my fingers are a bit shaky when trying to press on the screen, but 99 times out of 100 this is what happens:
-Making sure the keyboard is off-screen.
-Tap & hold, then a text magnifier appears (not what I wanted). Then the keyboard appears and I have to start over.
-Tap & Hold, wait, nothing happens, so I slide up or down and the screen scrolls (not what I wanted).
Interestingly enough, this might be partially my wobbly hand's fault, and partially a bug.
It seems that if I restart the app (quit it on iOS, then relaunch it) I can then perform a move operation normally, even several times in a row. However, once I enter 'text move', either accidentally or on purpose, it becomes nearly impossible for me to perform a move afterwards.
Regardless of the likeliehood that this is a bug, perhaps there are too many 'tap possibilities for various functions' by tapping a line, and moving a line should be relagated to 'not-textual areas' or the UI, such as the bullet points and a button icon in the toolbar.
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Daniel,
If you can, please try the steps I've documented here to reproduce. I'm curious if your issue is identical to mine:
https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/49755
Thank you.
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I find that if you dismiss the keyboard (and exit editing) using Workflowy's supplied taskbar button (on the far right), the moving is much more likely to work as expected. It seems that dismissing the keyboard using the keyboard's built in button doesn't let Workflowy know that editing has finished and so dragging is treated as part of the editing process and simply selects text.
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I’ve had this problem on my iPhone for years. Still do. Can’t move an item until I get back to my desk and try to remember.
If I zoom in using iPhones accessibility feature (3-finger double-tap zooms screen) and then 3-finger double-tap on the item to move & to zoom out, Workflowy puts the item in drag mode and I can move it works most of the time but it’s quite a lucky dance to get it to work on the item I want
Hoping that info is helpful to other users or maybe to the developers!?!?
Every time I consider upgrading I run into this and some other long-standing basic functionality bugs and I decide not to. Still haven’t found anything better to use, but paying monthly for something I know is not being supported well is a no-go too. So if this gets fixed I’m sure I won’t be th only new paying customer.
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