Can't drag the cursor up in text messages on new iphone 15 Pro iOS 17

Did update 17.2.1 correct this issue? I'm suddenly able to navigate my cursor anywhere in my text.

I just wrote a long text and nearly cried. When I scroll to a place to edit the whole thing suddenly flips to another place. Trying to control the cursor is useless. If I put the cursor somewhere it immediately pops back to the last place it was — or some totally random place. I could scream. The caps key goes off before I even have a chance to type. It’s basically doing the same thing as the cursor. Totally uncontrollable. And this back arrow editing thing is insane. Almost everything it suggests is not a real word so just trying not to touch it. I’m so regretting iOS 17.

I have the same issue - can’t edit longer texts because can’t place cursor in higher sections of text.

I’ve been up to date with 17.1.1 pretty much since it came out and the issue persists. None of the fudges recommended in this post work. Including the most recent of dragging up from the space bar - keyboard goes grey yes, but cursor disappears and also still can’t scroll up. I booked an appointment with a genius and he tried this and failed. He tried various other things too, to no avail.

In addition to the scrolling up / editing issue in the messages app, the curser doesn’t function as it did in previous iOS in other ways as well. It is much poorer. For example when I tap to a position I wish to edit, sometimes it goes to where I want to place it, while very often it selects a word or even letter, and for the life of me I can’t just get it to flash in the spot I want without it selecting something. Whereas this wasn’t a problem in previous iOS. (It’s happening now while I write this, not in messages.) Then I tap in a different place and it does as one wishes and is the normal flashing cursor again. But it’s not where one wants it. I can’t see any pattern to it. It is infuriating for sure.

Everything is taking longer.

Getting the user interface right / having a curser working properly is obviously an absolute fundamental.

This is really poor and it’s been happening for way too long now.

I’ve had this problem with messenger as long as I’ve had my iP12 pro… with every version of iOS to date. The longer the message gets, the harder it is to get the cursor to move around. Sooner or later it just jams up and won’t respond to taps. Its always been a frustration - and it’s only been an issue with messenger for me.

It’s not the yr of the phone; my 13 does the same thing. When I try to make a correction on a text the curser will not go to the top portion. It happened after one of the updates…and I don’t appreciate it. If important, I have to put my phone on a keyboard in able to get curser to top😕

I'm on a 6SE and have the same problem. After dictating a long message just to discover I misspelled a word in the first sentence. When I try to scroll to the top to edit it, it sends me back down to the bottom. So frustrating! The trick with going to the bottom and long pressing the space bar works but what a pain in the ***. Do these high payed employees at apple have nothing better to do but to screw with us? Dagnabit!

I’ve been having the same infuriatingly issue as well PLUS when I try to edit in previously written text - either to add, delete, correct, cut/copy/paste - it will highlight the word following wherever I place the cursor in gray and a bubble with a suggested word and a u-turn like arrow will pop up. It does it in emails too and … FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! It’s even doing it while I’m writing this reply! (below is a photo of what happened) I tried resetting keyboard dictionary and phone reboot that was suggested in a previous reply without any luck. Has anyone figured out a fix? If memory serves me, this started with the initial iOS 17 update in SEP.2023. There have been nine (9) updates since then, none of which have made it any easier to write on devices. If Apple believes this to be a “feature” versus an “issue” then they are on crack.

Yes, as written by others, it is not an iPhone 15 issue. I have the 13 Pro and with the latest update this started happening. It is extremely frustrating. It has caused me to completely abandoned. Long worded text messages and start over . Apple! Please fix this!!!!

Has anyone called and spoken to Apple Support?

It’s the update -not the iPhone 15 because the phone I’m using right now is a 13 and it’s doing the same thing after an update six weeks ago.

I agree. My iPhone 12 mini did not have this problem at all until I upgraded to iOS 17. And I did install the latest, 17.1.2, and it did not resolve this issue at all.

Experiencing this too. Driving me nuts. Makes editing message impossible.

Took me forever to find this thread because there so many similarly worded issues in threads from the past - but this is new. Never experienced this before.

I too. Just upgraded to iPhone 15 from a 12. Exact same issue as poster described.

tried all resets and shutting off accessibility zoom and shrinking text size etc etc etc.

I am having same issues with cursor in text messages on my iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS 17.1 and have problems using the microphone as well as sometimes it doesn't work. I did not have these problems before installing iOS 17.

It is very frustrating.

I have done the recommended fixes in this forum to no avail. This morning, I installed the iOS 17.1.1 update and was only able to get it to work once, and only after repeated tries. Will submit a fix request to Apple suggested above. I hope they get this fixed soon. I have used notes to created text for a message but this should not be necessary. iMessage worked fine until iOS 17 update. It is a royal pain!

Why don't people with new iPhones that Apple Care still covers call support and get this figured out?

Or at least give their engineering team an update that thousands of iPhone owners are suffering through what has essentially made my phone useless (given how much I need to text each day with my job).