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[WIP] Fix gesture menu overlapping with text edit menu
[BLOCKED — no changes made] [iOS] Hide text selection & edit menu while Gesture Menu is onscreen
Jun 30, 2026
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@fbmcipher Agent problems to investigate, non-urgent |
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@raineorshine Thanks, on it. |
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Status: not implemented. This PR is empty. Work is blocked at the mandatory
issue-reprogate and awaiting your guidance — see escalation below.Problem
On iOS, triggering em's Gesture Menu while a word is selected renders the gesture overlay on top of the native iOS edit menu (
Cut | Copy | Paste) and selection handles (confirmed by the attached screenshot). Expected: the selection and its tools are hidden (not cleared) while the Gesture Menu is visible, and restored exactly when it is dismissed.Why there are no changes
The
[iOS]reproduction must run on a real device via BrowserStack App Automate. From this environment that is impossible:start_sessionaborted on timeout across 5 attempts; no session ever became active.list_apps→401 Access denied.curl https://hub-cloud.browserstack.com→curl: (6) Could not resolve host. BrowserStack is not in the sandbox network allow-list.The native edit menu and selection handles are native UI, not DOM, so Chrome/Android emulation is not a valid fallback — it would not exercise the failing layer. Per the methodology I must not read source to hypothesize, edit files, or open a PR until the bug is reproduced and captured in a failing test.
To unblock — pick one
*.browserstack.com(incl.hub-cloud.browserstack.com,api-cloud.browserstack.com) and confirmBROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEYis current (the401hints it may be stale). I'll then run reproduction → failing test → plan → fix → on-device validation.