iOS Scrolling Problem with external mouse (both mobile app and publish)

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I’m still experiencing the two-finger scroll issue after upgrading to the new 13-inch, M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 17.5 and the new Magic Keyboard. The problem only seems to be getting worse. I used to happen to me after using Obsidian for some duration and would typically go away after switching to another note, and then switching back, or killing/reopening Obsidian. Now, it frequently happens immediately after launching Obsidian.

I do have to assume this is somehow an Apple issue as I also see the issue on one website in Safari (inoreader.com).

That said, Apple clearly doesn’t seem interested in fixing the issue when users open standard tickets.

Is Obsidian able to open a ticket with Apple as a developer?

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This is the post on Apple Support forums for anyone who wants to follow along. Although it doesn’t seem that Apple have any interest in fixing it. There are some reports of it impacting their own apps like Pages and Photos when accessed through iCloud. Pretty poor form.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254965750?login=true&sortBy=best&answerId=260473658022

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Does this issue occur in read mode or edit or both?

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For me, this issue only happens when open a new tab regardless of which view you are on. After opening the file in a new tab, if two fingers make a small movement on the trackpad without lifting fingers from the trackpad, the page will not scroll; but if you do a large action, the screen will start to scroll the moment when when two fingers leave the trackpad because there is still “inertia” left. In addition, if you switch to another view at this time, the scrolling operation will completely return to normal, regardless of whether the finger leaves the trackpad or not. So my workaround now is to open a new tab, switch to another view and scroll, and then switch back, so that everything is normal.
I can send you a smal video via Discord.

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If anyone here is able to test snippets on their iPad, let me know if this helps:

html, body {
overflow: auto !important;
overscroll-behavior: none;
}

Please be aware this may have unintended consequences.

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It works. By applying this CSS snippet I can use my trackpad smoothly.

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testing it today and it seems to be working fine with Magic Keyboard and its trackpad - for both the files navigation bar and content of a larger files

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We included this fix in 1.6.4

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I’m having trouble with this: Scrolling does not work in neither edit nor reading mode. Using the latest iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard on iPadOS 18.0 (22A5307f), on 1.6.5 insider edition.

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Hi there any update to this? I can’t scroll on Obsidian IOS on Ipad Pro either. I once deleted Obsidian and it worked, but now it stopped working again and I’d like to NOT delete my IOS Obsidian app every single time this happen.

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Definitely still a problem for me on the latest version of iPadOS.

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Same for me as well.

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Anybody have any luck on this? Using the beta didn’t help and neither did reloading the app.

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The problem has completely gone away (knock on wood) for me the last month on iPadOS 17.5.1 and Obsidian 1.6.7, except under the following circumstances:

  1. When the plugin “PDF++” is enabled - I am unable to scroll any notes or menus, anywhere in the app
  2. When trying to scroll a PDF that I am viewing directly in the Obsidian PDF viewer - I can scroll notes or menus except the one with the PDF

Interestingly, embedding a PDF in a blank note does not cause the scrolling bug in the note in general, although I am unable to scroll the embedded bit.

I’ve verified this in my own vault, as well as a blank sandbox one with no custom themes, snippets, or plugins.

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I don’t have that installed (PDF++) and I still have the problem.

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I’m having the same issue as you with Obsidian 1.7.1.

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Aye, weirdly as soon as I turned off PDF++ it fixed it for me too.

This is on an M1 iPad, 18.1 beta train, current public release of Obsidian (1.6.7?)

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It seems that the problem resurfaced on 1.7.x branch.

I’ve the same scrolling issue also on iOS (iPhone) without any external mouse.

I’ve to check more deeply but the proposed css fixed it on my iPhone. To be verified on iPad.

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In my case, ProMotion is the culprit.

Extra-Obsidian environment:

  • iPad Pro M2 12.9"
  • iPadOS 18.1 beta 4
  • Logi Keys-to-go(1st gen.)
  • Logi MX Anywhere 3S
  • Magic Trackpad 2

Intra-Obsidian environment:

  • Obsidian 1.6.7(149)
  • 1,981 files
  • 69 folders
  • Community plugins: Broken Links, Dataview, Waypoint
  • Applied the CSS snippet mentioned above

The freezing occurred almost exclusively when I repeatedly moved from one file to another in a short time, both because of my actual workflow and because of the experiment I tried to find out the problem.

These are some facts I discovered:
First, I thought this was because of many external inputs, which I wrote above, but the freeze kept on occurring even when I disconnected all the gears from the iPad.
Second, I thought this was only an issue in Obsidian app, but I realized that this also happened in Safari too.
Third, iPad mini(6th gen.) that I also have didn’t suffer from this, even when I connected to the mini all the gears I disconnected from the iPad Pro.

After some searching combining the keywords(iPad Pro, external inputs, Safari, Obsidian, etc.), I found out that some people solved freezing in Safari after turning off ProMotion.
I did the same thing and during the 1-hour test drive I’m not suffering from the freezing. A big contrast, I could reproduce the problem in a single minute.
What I suffer from is fact that I have to turn off one of the killer function of iPad Pro, just to prevent it from freezing.

I concluded that the cause of the problem is not Obsidian but iPadOS or iPad Pro or Apple.

If you are using an iPad Pro, you can turn it off at:
Settings.app - Accessibility - Motion - Limit frame rate.

I’d like IPP users to share the result.

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Update:
Sorry, I was wrong. It started freezing again.