Tapping on iPhone often does not work

#1: Post by **pontoon** » October 29th, 2019, 11:34 am

It usually takes at least a few taps before my browser will start loading a link I'm trying to tap. It's not that I'm missing. There's just something funny with this site in particular. Not the end of the world, just thought you should know. I'm on an iPhone X with iOS 12.4.1.

#2: Post by **johnX** » October 29th, 2019, 11:53 am

Same here.
But my iPhone is having issues in other places too, after this last update.

#3: Post by **Mayhem** » October 29th, 2019, 1:20 pm

Isn't that by design? From Apple's side that is.

This is because Home-Barista applies the CSS hover state on its links. Because touchscreens cannot detect fingers hovering above them, Apple has unfortunately chosen to trigger the hover state instead of a 'click' on the first tap.

https://css-tricks.com/annoying-mobile- ... ink-issue/

#4: Post by HB » October 29th, 2019, 1:26 pm

Ah, that's interesting! I use Firefox not Safari, which may explain why I've never noticed this behavior.

#5: Post by HB » October 30th, 2019, 9:31 pm

pontoon wrote:It usually takes at least a few taps before my browser will start loading a link I'm trying to tap.

Which links? There's a preview on hover for the topics in a forum; I've disabled it for mobile devices. Let me know if that helps. I tried it on an iPhone/Safari and links worked on the first tap.

October 30th, 2019, 10:12 pm

Mostly I noticed it on the prev, next, first, last buttons. It would also happen on some other links. I'll pay attention to see if it works. Thanks.

November 2nd, 2019, 1:50 pm

It seemed like it was better earlier this week? I'm having issues tapping again. When I tap I was never seeing any preview pop ups, just nothing would happen.

#8: Post by HB » November 2nd, 2019, 7:50 pm

What link(s) and browser? I can't reproduce it. Click this link and paste the result. Here's mine:

Browser is Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/20.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15

Mobile: true
Tablet: false
iPad using Safari: false
Capability: A