Android Markdown Editor no longer allowing edits

Operating system

Android

Joplin version

3.5.8

Editor

Markdown Editor

What issue do you have?

This feels like something that absolutely must be my fault but I can't figure out why.

The Markdown Editor no longer allows edits of any kind. If I open a note and try to edit it, I get a keyboard and a cursor; if I push buttons on the keyboard, the phone does its standard mini keyboard vibrate, but nothing is entered in the note. All notes appear to be read-only for some reason, including a new note I made just to test this.

If I switch to the Rich Text Editor, I can edit things . . . but then the "back" button doesn't work, so there's no longer any way to leave the note, even if I switch back to Markdown. Actually, I can't get the back button to work at all anymore even if I don't mess with editor settings. I think that's new.

Also, this is all on my wife's phone. My phone, which is also Android 3.5.8, works fine. I cannot tell what's different about my wife's phone.

Any idea what to test?

What version of Android is your wife’s phone? It potentially may be an issue on an older version of Android

“System is up to date”, Android 16. Kept up to date pretty reliably.

Still happening, unfortunately.

Does she use any apps which use an accessibility service / device administrator access? Sometimes such apps can draw over other apps and cause issues, but that’s a longshot.

What is the phone model and is it stock Android with google play, or some other Android derivative like LineageOS?

Are there any Markdown editor-related error messages in configuration > tools > logs? To check:

  1. Open the logs screen (configuration > tools > logs).
  2. Click "Errors Only".
  3. Click the "search" button and type "MarkdownEditor".

For example, for me, the screen looks like this:

Also helpful would be the WebView information listed in configuration > more information (near the bottom of the screen).