iOS text selection handles and pasting text from a browser

[dapper gale]

I have two issues, perhaps related, with the iOS app that I’m trying to figure out.

The first is the text selection handles have disappeared. See the attached image that has “text selection handles” highlighted. The white ends with large circles are the “handles”. The image is from the discord app on iOS. Most every iOS app shows these handles when text is selected.

In my iOS companion app, when I did a script or automation and switch to YAML mode, or when I use the template editor in developer tools (or anywhere else that text can be typed), I don’t get those handles. See attached image of the template editor with dt = '2025 highlighted. There are no handles. And the highlighting color is difficult to see, at least in dark mode.

I noticed this change about 3-6 months ago but I kept hoping it was a bug that would be fixed and never looked into it.

The second issue is that when I copy text from the HA app in YAML mode, and then paste it in a browser, it gets pasted as HTML-encoded text.

For example, I open an automation in the UI automation editor, then choose “edit in YAML”, and then highlight and copy the text, as shown in the first image.

Then I open chrome on my phone and paste the text into the HA forum. I will get html-encoded text, as shown in the second attachment.

I noticed both these issues at the same time, it’s been about 3-6 months probably since I first noticed it. I figured it was some bug that would get resolved but clearly that hasn’t happened.

My first question is whether other people have these two issues, or whether it is something with the settings on my phone.