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FYI: Voyager really doesn't play nicely with the iOS17 Public Betas (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/voyagerapp

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I thought people might want to know since the public betas got released today. I tried them both on my iPhone and iPad and the scrolling is so janky in both they’re pretty much so unusable. I noticed scrolling problems in other apps too, I’m not trying to place any blame whatsoever on Voyager or its devs, I just wanted everyone here who was thinking about taking the plunge to know that if you do, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll lose access to a functional version of Voyager.

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[–] Rhoeri 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Scrolling has always been an issue since I first started using this app. It locks up constantly for anywhere from a few seconds to 30 or so seconds. It’s the only reason I don’t use it as my main lemmy app.

[–] LemmyRefugee 3 points 11 months ago

In my case I stop touching the screen for 1 second, then it becomes responsive again.

[–] marcus 2 points 11 months ago

A temporary “solution” to fix this is to swipe on any post. This will allow you to scroll again, although you have to do it everytime it locks up…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but this ain’t that. It’s way worse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Installed the beta yesterday but haven’t experienced what you have. Scrolling seemed to be fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I have the same issue with iPad OS 16

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

No issues here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I’ve had the dev beta and now the public beta on my iPad and had no issues. I think I did have to reinstall it at some point though, have you tried that?

[–] aeharding 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you are having issues where images are failing to load and it makes the feed glitch, there’s an open issue for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, I was having that before I updated to the beta. This is definitely not that. I can load up the All feed and scroll down a page or two and then hit the “bottom” where no more posts load, then I try to scroll back up and it’s stuck on that page of posts. Then sometimes it will scroll without loading anything at all so I’m just scrolling a blank page and it gets stuck again so it’s just a blank page with nothing on it. It’s not mildly annoyingly janky, it’s like, completely unusable janky. But like I said, I am seeing similar behavior in other 1st party apps, so it’s almost certainly nothing that Voyager is doing wrong.

[–] ramble81 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can you install Firefox on iOS? If so see how it works using that for the PWA back end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Hmm. That seems to have worked. I wouldn’t have thought so since, as the other person that replied to you said, I thought all the browsers used the same engine on iOS. Maybe they changed some Safari specific things in iOS 17.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Won't it not be different since all browsers on iOS (chrome, firefox, brave, etc) are forced to use WebKit unlike Android?