IPad assistance request

I have an IPAD, not an expert ether, BUT you can call APPLE and they will tutor you on the phone free, look for an APPLE STORE in your area as they have free courses in APPLE STORES

I use my iPad all the time for this list and others.  I’m viewing it Safari and I simply use my browser’s back arrow to go back a page.  That top bar in the browser will sometimes hide itself when you are viewing a page so you have to drag it down to see the arrows and the address box.  

Here is a screen shot I just took.

Hope this helps.
John

John,
Thanks for providing the solution to my problem!
I can now navigate to my previously viewed pages using the easily accessible Arrow at the top of the Safari browser. 
This is another reason that IT folks suggest that I stop using Firefox

There is a mobile and desktop version of the website and they have a bit of a different look to them, but all use the buttons on the top left for navigation.

The mobile version may be preferred for a small phone screen, but for iPad, the Desktop versions work/look better (to me) and behave the way you would expect on a regular home computer.

You can use Safari or Firefox browsers.

In Firefox, you can tap the 3 bars on the top right and a menu will drop down.  You can choose to request the Desktop or Mobile version site.

For Safari, you can go into your settings, then Safari and scroll down a bit until you see “Request Desktop site”, tap this and you can make Safari use the Desktop version for all websites.  I use this feature.

Not too many worries on Firefox vs Safari on Ipad.  In truth, Firefox on iOS just uses a skinned over version of Safari on the iPad, so it is the same program under the hood, but has some different features exposed.  It is kinda like the difference between Chevrolet and GMC.  

The regular PC and Mac laptop or desktop versions of Firefox are truly different pieces of software, just the iOS versions are the same.  I tend to use Firefox on the big computer and Safari on the iPad.

You won’t have much trouble getting iPad support here, as I use one myself.

Willnewton,

  I have an iPad question/problem that just popped up that maybe you can help me with.

  When I initiate a PM I can not type in the box provided.  Instead a Note is generated in my Notes App (which I never ever use for anything else).  To make it more frustrating is that the note is collapsed at the lower right corner of my screen so I have to drag it open to then type into it.  I have kind of sort of figured out how to get that note to paste into the list’s PM window but the first couple of times I generated a dozen blank notes before I discovered what was going on.  Any ideas what might have happened?  I do not use the PM function all that often but I’ve done a couple in the last week and this is how I now have to do it.  I haven’t changed anything on my iPad that I know of but it’s goofy for sure.

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.

Thanks.  
John

I have never heard of that happening.  You are clicking here, right?

Yep.   It is pretty usual for something I am working with to have an issue that no one has ever heard of so I am accepting of that.  .  I took some screen shots of the process to see if that gives you any ideas.  I did make a change in the Notes settings last night to see if it fixed anything.  I’m not sure if that did anything or not but now I have discovered a way to write in the usual dialog box however I can’t write anything in the top half of that screen. Only where the blue is showing on my screen shot is where I can write something. 

Here is my kind of sort of work around.  If I tap on the blue area once, I can now write something but it will be from that line and down.  The upper half of the dialog box is inaccessible to me.

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Mine does the same thing:cyclops:

I have done some looking, but can’t find any info on why Quick Notes is launching for no reason.  The blue is a selection window, which also should not be appearing. I have seen errors from inadvertently touching the screen in multiple spots, causing strange and persistent selections.   I have seen these selection windows get “carried over” to the next webpage.  But nothing that completely replicates what you have going on involving Quick Notes and selection windows.

Is this happening when you use the Quick Reply at the bottom of the page or when you use the Post Reply, which takes you to a new page?  Or is it just for PM’s?

What size iPad and what orientation do you use it in?  We did have a similar bug in the past related to screen size on iPad, but it never went as far as the issues you are having.

Amanda4461, are you seeing the same Quick Notes and blue selection window?

Will,
I just selected the “Send an instant message” button. My screen launched, and while everything looks normal, I cannot add a message text unless I select a spot halfway down the message box.
This Quick Reply works as it should.
Thanks!

Willnewton,

My quick reply works as normal so it’s only the PM function. I don’t use that feature very often but have used it a bunch in these weeks leading up to Perry which is when I noticed it. I used it back in April but I do not recall anything looking unusual back then so it seems more recent. My suspicion would be it’s related to some sort of update that was done since then.

I use a full size iPod Air (4th gen).  I typically look at the screen in landscape mode but this situation occurs in either orientation. 

John

Mine does the same thing.