Unable to enter negative numbers on iOS or Andorid about frontend

[karwosts]

I don't think it's specifically an issue for all android, as my android number pad includes a - sign for these fields. Maybe just a thing with the speicific android manufacturer thing that they didn't include it in their numeric keyboard? Not sure about iOS.

I don't necessarily think it's the pattern that's the issue here, as I see that also but I have no problem entering negative numbers in a number entity in my android mobile 😕

If you click on any of these buttons is there anything there that might let you change the keyboard to something with a negative sign?

[lesma]

Something very odd certainly.

The Samsung Keyboard does not allow negative numbers in Chrome or The App but does in Samsung Internet. The SwiftKey Keyboard does allow negative numbers in Chrome and the app.

Seems to be a bit of an issue on the Samsung Keyboard https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21677695/input-type-number-not-possible-to-insert-negative-numbers-on-mobile-phone and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72049280/how-to-solve-the-galaxy-numeric-keyboard-nightmare. Does seem very odd that it works on Samsung Internet with the Samsung Keyboard though.

I don’t actually have an iOS device to test it was one of the iOS maintainers bgoncal who confirmed it was an issue for them. Though https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/711839 and https://betterprogramming.pub/12-shades-of-keyboard-types-in-ios-a413cf93bf4f suggests its possbile to get this to work for iOS in a more robust way than with the Samsung Keyboard

[hansw96]

This is indeed an issue on iPhone. Only way to get a negative number in there is to copy paste from somewhere else.

It seems that on iPhone the numbersAndPunctuation keyboard needs to be used.