iPad Improvements on web and app (iOS)

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My team almost exclusively uses Coda with our iPads. We would love to see some basic improvements to either the app, or the website, or both.

Issues on the website (ordered from most annoying to least):

  • Expanding/collapsing a collapsable section will always bring up the keyboard after. This is very annoying if you are expanding and collapsing a lot of sections in a short time
  • You have to double tap some elements to have anything happen. Why? Some examples:
    • If a table doesn’t have “focus” or something, it takes 2 taps to do anything, like expand a row (even if the expand row button is pinned), or clicking a filter.
    • Closing a row takes 2 taps on the “X”
  • The keyboard also always pops up when changing a Select control or a User control. The cursor goes into the search box. That is fine for really big lists, but for 5-10 options, it’s very annoying on a touch device. It would be great to have an option to just disable search on a Select control so we could fine tune it ourselves.

Issues on the app:

  • Mostly just how tables are displayed
    • If displayed as a table, the info it displays is so random. Sometimes it only shows 1 field, sometimes it shows 5 or 6 fields. The order is also all over the place and just looks bad.
    • If displayed as cards, it looks better, but it’s just a single vertical column of cards. This makes sense for a phone, but for an iPad it’s annoying you have to scroll more than you should. It would be great to have 2 or 3 columns of cards.
  • For Cross-doc tables, there is no way to manually refresh the data
  • Same issue with the Select/User controls as above.
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Same situation as yourself, it’s getting to the point of being unusable on iPad/iOS.

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:waving_hand: @Eric_Williamson and @Daniel_Barnett1

Eric - i cant replicate the first 3 issues you mentioned.
Agreed about table display. Its hard to get your head around the data in the tables. also certain column types like buttons or hidden button formula dont show up on app version.
I wish for the calendar view to not be table view. And yes, i use card view for mobile version the most. To get your cards in 2-3 columns - maybe u can kanban view it and do a group of 1, 2, 3 so they display across?

@Daniel_Barnett1 - apart from the login issues (from other posts), what other issues are you experiencing?

in general, for others reading this thread -
my suggestion and how i use coda on my ipad is just use safari with it. its like the desktop version so full functionality of coda.
and if want to use the app - having things such as iPadOS being up to date and your docs optimized helps a lot.
For me the app in recent months (early april 2025) - felt like its improved. I used to have a doc that was crashing a lot before this and after this time, its been fine (i havent altered doc. in fact, just added to it with more data).

hope this helps!

cheers!
Mel