Bug report for iOS: Scrolling a table horizontally triggers unexpected screen transitions

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When reviewing a card with an HTML element, scrolling horizontally on the screen results in unexpected behavior:

  1. Scrolling the table to the right results in the “action” popup to appear from the bottom. It’s the screen that gives you option to flag, bury, edit, etc. I don’t know what to call it exactly. It’s the popup that usually appears when clicking the settings wheel at the bottom right corner of the screen.

  2. Scrolling the table to the left results in exiting review mode and going back to the main menu of Anki.

That makes reviewing notes with embedded tables pretty annoying. I created a deck here with two cards that demonstrate this problem: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/698500715?cb=1786086834219

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I encounter a “This shared item is missing or currently unavailable” message when I try to access the example deck.

Edit: Added:

I do not see any incorrect behavior. By default in Preferences > Review > Swipes:

  • Swipe Left is set to “Tools Overlay”
  • Swipe Right is set to “Decks”

When I create a table that fits entirely in the window:

  • Swiping left and right results in the Swipe Left and Swipe Right actions, as expected.

When I create a table that is wider than the window:

  • Swiping left and right results in the table scrolling right and left, as expected.
  • Once the left-most edge of the table is reached, continuing to swipe right results in the Swipe Right action (go back to Decks screen), as expected.
  • Once the right-most edge of the table is reached, continuing to swipe left results in the Swipe Left action (show the Tools Overlay), as expected.
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Thanks for trying it out. But that’s not what’s happening on my device (iPhone SE 22, iOS 26.6).

The “Tools Overlay” and “Decks” screens appear before I reach the end of my table.
And when I start the scrolling gesture very sloooowly, the “Tools Overlay” and “Decks” screens don’t appear at all, no matter how far and fast I am scrolling afterwards.

Super junky interaction.

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And this here

is just a terrible default to have when working with scrollable cards :slight_smile: Even if it was working as specified.

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Thank you for that information. My testing was done with iPhone 13, iOS 26.6.

From what you say, it seems that it is possible for you to reach the end of the table if you drag slowly? If so, that would be one workaround. (Or, is it that the drag is incorrectly stopping before the end of the table appears on the screen, regardless of how slowly you drag? Is the problem that iOS/Anki believes that the end of the table has been reached and is visible, when it actually is still hiding off the side of the screen?)

Another workaround might be to disable the Swipe Left and Swipe Right actions in Preferences > Review > Swipes.

I believe that this is the expected behavior. iOS has thresholds and criteria for determining when a gesture is interpreted as a “swipe”. If you go slower, the same gesture is instead interpreted as a “drag”, and if you go even slower, the gesture is interpreted as simply a “long press”.