TextEdit Behaving Odd on Big Sur Update

App & System Services General TextKit macOS

Created Nov ’20

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Hi,

I'm an avid user of TextEdit to keep track of my thoughts and To-Do's through my work day. The result is, I end up with a fairly long text file, but not big on size in terms of storage.

After updating to Big Sur 11.0.1, I'm noticing an odd behaviour.

When every I press [Delete] more than thrice, the scroll bar jumps to the top of the text, i.e. the first line in the text file. This is very frustrating, especially, when you have lot of text and it scrolls all the way to the top.

The only solution I have found is to press [Delete] slowly (may be one character per second) to avoid the scroll bar jumping to the first line of the text file.

Also noticed, it does not happen in a full sentence, but only when when there's a short word and a line break [Enter] above and below the word.

I'm continuing with the same file I had saved on Catalina and never had this issue.

Looks like a bug to me.

[PS: I am a user experience designer, not a developer and only have minimal knowledge of coding. ]

Thanks,
Anish

MGF OP

Dec ’20

Same problem, extremely frustrating for a regular TextEdit user. Please fix fast!

paccopp OP

Dec ’20

The same here folks, so I'm going to look for alternative text editor. As I'm not sure when Apple will fix that let see what is out there. Maybe gvim or something similar (I have vim on the shell bit I suppose we all need GUI those days)

paccopp OP

Dec ’20

It is a history on my MAC, running Atom instead

pavelrozman OP

Dec ’20

Completely crazy. To think hundreds of us who have the same obvious error, hasn't been noticed at all in Cupertino. Not one single dev. who has used TextEdit for more than 2 minutes, hasn't mentioned anything about it? Shocking, unexplainable.

Thinking in the most favorable light, it may have been fixed, but the bug is too minor warranting a software update. Now, if this persists in 11.0.2...

paul50051@hotmail.com OP

Dec ’20

I'm having the same issue, its getting unbearable with my daily task. it was one of my best tool to take notes!!!!

cmassi OP

Dec ’20

1) I've the same issue, using TextEdit v 1.16 (364) in Big Sur, with a jump to the first line of the huge document, after a delete/paste of lines. No cursor is visible.

As workaround, I use the "arrow down" as soon as it jumps to the first line of the document, and cursor moves back to the original page, one line below the position where I was before the delete/paste action. It means the cursor was still in the correct position, but the visible page was the top page, instead of current page.

2) Furthermore, if I try to use cut&paste, and selecting a lot of lines I request TextEdit to execute a scroll down, then my document seems to be corrupted, truncated, even if it isn't, as I can see closing TextEdit and opening document again.

As workaround, I copy&paste only a visible lines, and save changes immediately.

Please Apple, fix it asap !!

ivmelnik OP

Dec ’20

+ 1

siber2k OP

Dec ’20

Running into the same issue. For the first time in a decade I'm looking for something to replace TextEdit. It's a bug that makes taking notes almost unusable. Hoping it's fixed soon.

297w OP

Dec ’20

This frustrated me so much I ended up just downloading a text editor program from the App Store. I've found that CotEditor works in a very similar way to TextEdit, so I've switched to that for the time being.

Doctorv73 OP

Dec ’20

I'm go glad I found this thread. I thought my computer was going banana and that this problem can't be possible. Good to know I'm not the only one. Hope this problem is fixed soon.

Ox-Max OP

Dec ’20

Same here:

if I use backspace half way a text-document, the cursor goes to the top of the text-file
if I select a bit of text and use cmd+x (cut) the cursor goes to the top of the textfile

Hopefully with the next software update this bug is fixed. TextEdit used to work splendid.

pkottke OP

Dec ’20

Noticed this same behavior of text edit almost immediately after using my new Macbook Air with Big Sur.
Extremely frustrating. I use it all day to log notes and to update various web pages.
Looking for alternate solution because I can't trust the accuracy of these files.
Apple please fix.

a_chil99 OP

Dec ’20

same problem here.

I'm also experiencing some issues with TextEdit in that it refuses to load. Whenever I open the application and select one of my past texts, after 5-6 seconds the app freezes and forces me to force-quit it. I don't know how to fix this. Please help!

coldrice OP

Dec ’20

I am having the same issue with TextEdit. I submitted a Feedback to Apple describing the problem and I would suggest that anyone else with the TextEdit bug on Big Sur submit one to Apple also. https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Maverick001 OP

Dec ’20

Same here. Cursos jumps to the beginning of the text file upon deleting empty line. Arrow Down brigs it to its correct location. Extremely frustrating. How could they mess up something as simple as text editor? Why would you even change it?

Betazero OP

Dec ’20

Having the same problem. Also, find will not find anything for the 1st and 2nd attempts then it will find on the 3rd try. Very weird but the delete thing is driving me crazy and then to get back to where I was I use find which is also messed up.....

Apple please fix this!

BCiav OP

Dec ’20

Not sure if this helps, but I'm experiencing the very same issue. It's pretty disorienting; I look forward to the fix.

meo_bogliolo OP

Dec ’20

Just updated to Big Sur 11.1 and now the problem seems fixed :-)

Troc OP

Dec ’20

VERY pleased to report I upgraded to Big Sur 11.1 ~1.5 days ago ... and so far, TextEdit is working as it had originally. I still experience a couple of glitches at times, but at least the most frustrating parts are fixed. Thank you.

yanurmal OP

Dec ’20

I've the same issue, very annoying. Please fix it.

FusionPIlot OP

Dec ’20

Like others on this issue, the update to Big Sur 11.1 seems to have corrected the erratic behavior of TextEdit.

Thanks, Apple! I depend on TextEdit.

Ace203 OP

Dec ’20

My text editor keeps on crashing again and again...
OS: BigSur | Machine: Macbook Air M1

aparchment1 OP

Dec ’20

The 11.1 update didn't help me, but then I'm on an early 2015 Macbook Air. Sad part is the machine was bulletproof prior to this. Looks like I am going to need to backtrack. Ugh. Dreading the time sink, but I need the machine to be fast again, and I use Text Edit a lot!

Update: I switched to Atom. Will see if this meets all of my needs. So far so good.

Ricardo_S OP

Feb ’21

Agree - I've been having infuriating issues with textedit at macOS 11.2.1, where it hangs with beachball sometimes indefinitely during simple operations like search + replace. This is on a 6 month old macbook pro with maximum available processor, memory and graphics. So what's up with this? It's textedit, for fecks sake.

And1rzej OP

Mar ’21

I have the same issue with TextEdit, very very annoying.
Macbook Air M1 2020, Big sure

btw.
when I had macbook Air 2019 with Catalina, I didn't have any problem...