# Problems with quote reply
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684
**Category:** Feedback
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684 "2017-05-01T17:10:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/1 "2017-05-01T17:10:06Z")
I am using the Discourse app on an IPad2 with up-to-date IOS. When I try to use quote reply, I am unable to highlight and quote text. So usually I select quote reply, then go back and copy the text I want (and that usually takes a few tries, too) and paste it in. I had the same problem on TuD in the browser. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/2 "2017-05-01T18:06:30Z")
Do you have the same problem with FUD on the browser?
I will try and duplicate your issue with my wife’s iOS device.
[EDIT] With the iOS, discourse app, what exactly happens when you select text? What happens for me on Android is: I select text, get an option to quote, select that option, then it opens up a reply box where the quote is already there.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/3 "2017-05-01T18:10:39Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> I will try and duplicate your issue with my wife’s iOS device
Test - using quote reply with Discourse app on Android
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/4 "2017-05-01T18:11:21Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> Test - using quote reply with Discourse app on Android
Worked on my iPhone also… Same process
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/5 "2017-05-01T19:59:46Z")
Just tested an iPhone 7s with latest iOS update. I was able to select text, select QUOTE, then reply. Possibly it is only on the iPAD? Or maybe a different use case?
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### Author:  [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/6 "2017-05-01T20:41:50Z")
I use the instructions you outline above…just hasn’t worked (though I remember a time it used to on the other site, probably before one of the IOS upgrades). Anyway, no worries, I can work around it. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/7 "2017-05-01T20:50:34Z")
Does anyone have a recent, fully OS-updated iPad to duplicate this behavior? @docslotnick, I think you are an iPad user?
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/8 "2017-05-01T21:11:58Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> @docslotnick, I think you are an iPad user
Perish the thought. I’m all about Android, never even touched an iPad 😉
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/9 "2017-05-01T21:13:50Z")
Can’t wait until my current contract period ends so I can switch back…have I mentioned my disdain for all things “i”??
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### Author:  [@Millz](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Millz)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/10 "2017-05-02T07:45:31Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> Does anyone have a recent, fully OS-updated iPad to duplicate this behavior? @docslotnick, I think you are an iPad user?
It works from my iPad!
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### Author:  [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/11 "2017-05-02T15:00:35Z")
So I persisted and managed a qoute-reply (still had to paste text into the quote) and part of the problem seems to be with the text highlighting anchors. As I mentioned, this is an “old” device and the screen sensitivity (if that’s the right term) may be less than optimal.
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/12 "2017-05-02T15:03:52Z")
I know that, on my iPhone, if I don’t use those anchors just right, the ENTIRE AREA becomes highlighted…it’s honestly a bit tricky even on the iPhone 7 to get just the text you want, highlighted…but I was just discounting my own ineptness at my old age and fading eyesight. ☹
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/13 "2017-05-03T03:35:58Z")
> [@ClaudnDaye](#):
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> my old age and fading eyesight.
You are a young rooster, Harold 🙂
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### Author:  [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/14 "2017-05-03T03:51:37Z")
45 and some days I feel like I"m going on 90! But…other days, I do only feel 20. 😛
Seriously, though…my eyes were perfect until 40…then I could no longer read package labels. ☹ I had my sons read things for…then one day my wife had a pair of reading glasses waiting for me…I looked through them and it was as if a whole new world had appeared before me. 😛
I’ve been wearing them ever since.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/problems-with-quote-reply/684/15 "2017-05-03T03:56:37Z")
> [@ClaudnDaye](#):
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> I’ve been wearing them ever since.
I’ve been there for about 5 years…