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[iPadOS 27] Keyboard Shortcut Bar buttons have excessively small touch targets
Area: iPadOS / UIKit / Accessibility Summary: In iPadOS 27, the floating shortcut bar above the software keyboard (Undo, Redo, Copy, AutoFill) and the bottom keyboard toggle buttons (Globe, Microphone, Handwriting) suffer from severely reduced touch targets. This makes them difficult to tap accurately, leading to frequent mis-taps and a degraded text input experience. Steps to Reproduce: Open any app with a text input field (e.g., Safari, Notes) on an iPad running iPadOS 27. Bring up the software keyboard. Observe the floating shortcut bar and the bottom row of keyboard toggles. Attempt to tap "Undo", "Redo", or the handwriting/globe buttons. Expected Behavior: The UI elements should meet Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for minimum touch target size (44x44 pt). Alternatively, enabling "Larger Text" or "Display Zoom" in Accessibility settings should appropriately scale these system UI components. Actual Behavior: The buttons are visually cramped and their touch targets are tiny. Increasing system text size has no effect on these UI elements. It is extremely difficult to hit the correct button, and users frequently trigger the wrong action. Environment: Device: A16 iPad OS Version: iPadOS 27.0 (Build: [IpadOS27) App: System-wide (Safari, Notes, etc.) Impact: This affects accessibility and basic usability. Users with larger fingers, motor impairments, or those relying on Accessibility features are significantly impacted. The UI feels overly compressed and unintuitive.
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[iPadOS 27] Keyboard Shortcut Bar buttons have excessively small touch targets
Area: iPadOS / UIKit / Accessibility Summary: In iPadOS 27, the floating shortcut bar above the software keyboard (Undo, Redo, Copy, AutoFill) and the bottom keyboard toggle buttons (Globe, Microphone, Handwriting) suffer from severely reduced touch targets. This makes them difficult to tap accurately, leading to frequent mis-taps and a degraded text input experience. Steps to Reproduce: Open any app with a text input field (e.g., Safari, Notes) on an iPad running iPadOS 27. Bring up the software keyboard. Observe the floating shortcut bar and the bottom row of keyboard toggles. Attempt to tap "Undo", "Redo", or the handwriting/globe buttons. Expected Behavior: The UI elements should meet Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for minimum touch target size (44x44 pt). Alternatively, enabling "Larger Text" or "Display Zoom" in Accessibility settings should appropriately scale these system UI components. Actual Behavior: The buttons are visually cramped and their touch targets are tiny. Increasing system text size has no effect on these UI elements. It is extremely difficult to hit the correct button, and users frequently trigger the wrong action. Environment: Device: A16 iPad OS Version: iPadOS 27.0 (Build: [IpadOS27) App: System-wide (Safari, Notes, etc.) Impact: This affects accessibility and basic usability. Users with larger fingers, motor impairments, or those relying on Accessibility features are significantly impacted. The UI feels overly compressed and unintuitive.
Topic: Design SubTopic: General
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