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From: Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Losing typed-in text irretrievably
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:34:57 -0000 (UTC)
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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> On 2024-08-22 05:00:38 +0000, Cameo said:
>> 
>> It happens to me pretty often when I touch a key incidentally or when I
>> have to do something else before Send or Save. Then the text I spent long
>> time to type in just disappears irretrievably. In Android there was a
>> confirmation question before such a critical action. If such feature is
>> also available in iOS via some Setup option, I can not find it. But then I
>> am fairly new in the Apple environment. So go easy on me if I should know
>> this.
> 
> It would depend on what you're doing to cause that to happen, but it's 
> unlikely Android has some magic authentication message for whatever 
> you're doing either. For example, accidentally selecting all the test 
> and replacing it with a space will not give you a warning message on 
> any computer system.
> 
> You could possibly try the Undo feature to undo whatever you've just 
> done, but again it depends on wht you did.
> 
I wasn’t talking about authentication, but confirmation, such as “Do you
want to exit without saving your text?”, or something similar. I also know
about what happens when I select the entire text before typing a character
again. Android works the same way with that one. In cases I mentioned was
no Undo option, BTW.