Turn off (or customize) double tap to switch to editing view

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Greetings.

The current double tap feature is terrible. I find myself switching to edit by accident, even having CSS that prevents and even hides the edit button completely.

Sadly, this feature seems to be a nice addition for most users, meaning this post won’t draw any attention, like so many others.

Maybe add some options to choose what the double tap feature does? Or disable it in its entirety? This feature doesn’t seem to be targeted via CSS, or at least I couldn’t target it myself

:warning: While we wait, here’s a current workaround.

Hope to draw some attention to this matter.

Thanks in advance.

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Changed title to describe the request (was “[Mobile] Re: Double tap to edit”, or similar; I apparently didn’t select the whole thing).

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Appreciate the proper edits, as always :folded_hands:

To be honest, I knew it was vague, but couldn’t think of anything better at the moment.

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Completely agree!

There is a nice onscreen button, that works perfectly.

Please remove this feature or add a toggle in the settings to turn off switching between edit and view mode by double tapping!

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This would be an incredible help, as I suffer from hand tremors, and find it nearly impossible to not constantly switch into edit mode while trying to read my notes on a phone.

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+1 I thought I was going crazy because I don’t think this happened before. Please add an option to disable this feature. It really interferes with using emdebed bases and other plugins.

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+1 I can’t even find a work around to turn this feature off. It’s breaking my bases and embedded tabs. Please consider giving back the control to the users with a toggle button. :folded_hands:

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I find it awkward the three modes of Obsidian

Reading
Edit Live Preview
Edit Source Mode

aren’t accessible by just cycling through control + e.

toggling between the two editing modes is slow.

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I would really like to disable this double tap option. I constantly tap or click it accidentally and have to go back to preview mode

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+1

I often read my notes on mobile phone while on public transport using one hand with a lot of jerks. So the read mode automatically switches to edit mode and I end up adding characters unintentionally.

It will be nice to have this disable feature coupled with changing double-tap sensitivity. Like mentioned in post below.

I feel like a time-between-taps slider would be a good idea for accessibility, like the adjustable double-click interval on desktops.

Link to the post.

Thank you!

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Long story short, I had to migrate from Obsidian because of that, after almost losing valuable info. Why not make such “improvements” optional?

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Made a workaround for this. If you’re comfortable running Javascript on Obsidian startup[1], here you go:
Disable double tap to edit on mobile - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum

  1. You can use CodeScript Toolkit like I do or you can use QuickAdd or whatever else lets you run Javascript on Obsidian startup. ↩︎

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Thank you for this. Marking it as the solution for the meantime. It is a truly annoying feature that I cannot believe was overlooked this much, but I’m sure we’ll be heard eventually. For now this workaround is the best we have and I encourage anyone to give it a go. Much appreciated!

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I removed the solution mark because this is still a valid feature request. If you’d like to highlight the workaround, you could edit the original post to mention and link to it.

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Thought the same thing — didn’t wanted this issue to fall under the “no fix needed” ones, but also thought about how many other users and myself just stumble with posts like these online and would rather have an immediate solution instead of simply being told to wait.

Appreciate both the correction and the suggestion anyways, as always.