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

Amazing. I’m going to download 17.2 now. This bug has been killing me!

You’re missing the point. The same happens everywhere, including in Pages, where editing is a nightmare too.

We need a fix.

I have an iPhone 14 and have the same problem after I downloaded IOS 17. It only happens with long texts. I have never had the problem before 17. Very frustrating.

I have tried all the suggested fixes.

I am all updated to iOS 17.1.1. restarted phone and reset keyboard dictionary... None of your suggestions worked, but thank you. It's odd that some of the respondents on this thread said their update worked out the wandering cursor issue. Not for me. This same iOS update messed up my VIP emails and dumped all emails in that folder, but I resolved that through suggestions from this community forum. Hopefully, there will be another suggestion from this community that can resolve the disobedient text cursor when editing a long message. Frustrated!

You just pulled everything related to these ISSUES out of my brain and articulated it in your post.

What did the Genius person finally do/suggest?

I cant believe something as necessary and basic as the cursor has turned into such a crippled mess.

And that none of the recent updates have corrected this. My phone is basically useless given the amount of texting and writing that I do on it.

No, if it’s a super long text message the ’feature’ you suggest doesn’t work as your still unable to scroll/move the cursor up into the parts of the message that reside higher, beyond the view of the text message field.

I’m having the same issue, try to go back and edit a text message, the cursor won’t stay in place. It jumps down to a different part of the message.

Very frustrating. As a workaround, I tried ‘select all’ to copy and rewrite the message in Pages and repost…nope …I can’t even ‘select all..’

Nope. Thank you for your advice IdrisSeabright but it does not work. Unfortunately functions the same as I stated in previous. I have another iPhone which I did not upgrade to iOS 17. All works wonderfully on that still.

There is a fundamental problem with iOS 17 around the cursor as well as around how it functions in the message app.

I do hope this is acknowledged by Apple soon.

Updated to iPhone 15, “Titanium”very cool but useless in exchange for poor or non functioning of practical features like using the cursor to correct texts, such as dates in a message. If it is necessary to edit critical dates or numbers at the top of a message —forget it! - IT WONT do it unless you have several hours to waste…you’ll have rewrite your message with NO corrections.

This is a poor level of functionality considering all the other features previous versions had, especially since Apple push the glamour of the Titanium as the big sell.

I want a phone that is smarter than this on a practical level.

The Dictionary function is also terrible, I have to Edit the phone, rather than it help me edit my texts!! And it “won't learn” corrections of its ridiculous spellings….! It cannot spell the word “the” correctly so far, i find it amazing that it is so incompetent at the basics.

I find that the auto correct takes more time to use, and the cursor function completely useless to correct anything.

What is the answer to this poor functionality? The iPhone 7 worked better! Camera, new lens’s, etc.. all great but I need an efficient texting device for communication (and $$$$ price) more than a perfect camera for social media…

Any answers? …

i have an iPhone 12 mini running’s iOS 17.2 and I just checked in my messages I typed a supper long message and went back to edit it and the curser worked as I expected had no issues getting it to where I wanted and it was a supper long message

What do you physically do to make this happen? I had already tried both holding my finger in the spot where I put the cursor and using voice to text to Phil in a word that way (didn’t work), and I tried immediately typing very fast , that didn’t work either. As soon as I let go, the screen bounced again. How did you physically get this work around to work ?

This worked perfectly. I’ve been recently sending long messages to family numbers keeping them updated on some things. I have been very frustrated with the cursor glitch. So, thank you for this very easy fix.

For some reason my reply went to the wrong place instead of a reply to you, so I’m copying it here. This worked perfectly. I’ve been recently sending long messages to family numbers keeping them updated on some things. I have been very frustrated with the cursor glitch. So, thank you for this very easy fix.

I’m having this same issue. When typing longer text messages, I can’t move the curser where I want to, making it impossible to edit texts, ever since I updated to 17.1.1. I hope Apple comes up with a fix for this issue soon!

Thank you for the suggestions but I tried each one and the cursor problem is still there :/ it's incredibly time-consuming and frustrating trying to edit any dictated text. It's odd that Apple has not fixed this bug yet. Do you have any other ideas to fix this problem?