Board Game Arena

Here are two problems I have when using the iPhone to play games on BGA. Firstly, an issue which affects most games:

- Pinch Zoom triggers swipe commands for the individual finger directions. So, if my fingers splay apart vertically then it often triggers swipe up or swipe down (which reloads the page) or left or right (triggering back or forwards). Infuriating.

- Some games - especially Puerto Rico - will fail to register taps. You can end up having to spam tap and hoping that one of them will work.

This happens on both Safari and my browser of choice: Vivaldi. Surely this infuriates more people than just me?

Hopkins wrote: ↑15 October 2026, 22:39 This happens on both Safari and my browser of choice: Vivaldi. Surely this infuriates more people than just me?

Sadly there is actually no difference on iOS with browsers, they are forced to use the same rendering engine of Apple so if there is a bug, it's very likely to be accross all browsers.
And be sure it's infuriating to us devs as well to have to work with iOS rendering engine that is working so poorly ans so unreliably compared to other engines.

I did not know that! Thanks for the reply. Very frustrating, I can imagine.

Hopkins wrote: ↑15 October 2026, 22:39 - Some games - especially Puerto Rico - will fail to register taps. You can end up having to spam tap and hoping that one of them will work.

This happens on both Safari and my browser of choice: Vivaldi. Surely this infuriates more people than just me?

I have had this issue a very long time in games on BGA. In fact, I posted a thread years ago on this very issue.

What I've noticed the last few days is that it also affect the Games in Progress page, which I haven't had problems with previously. The forums works fine and have always.

Surely it is something that BGA does that most other websites does not that makes it so difficult to use iOS.

Ah, thanks, I did attempt a search before posting but I missed that! Good to know that it’s a widespread problem, but then surprising that it hasn’t been taken seriously yet. I believe that outside the US Apples phones tend to be less popular than Google’s, so perhaps none of the core developers use an Apple touch device!

Apple phones are certainly popular everywhere. I don't even know what is a Google phone.

tbhp wrote: ↑23 October 2026, 14:14 Apple phones are certainly popular everywhere. I don't even know what is a Google phone.

I should have said Android phone!

Hopkins wrote: ↑23 October 2026, 17:28 I should have said Android phone!

That's more clear. With my disinterest in phones and marketing, I can't even be bothered to know who is associated to what exactly.