has anyone experienced an inability to input a phone number on iOS simulators? My app was just rejec...

# compose-ios

[Shariff]

has anyone experienced an inability to input a phone number on iOS simulators? My app was just rejected by Apple 2x because they were not able to enter the phone number to log on to the app. Im puzzled as I cannot repro this on any simulator or device.

Here is my phone number form:

@Composable
fun PhoneNumberTextField(
    phoneNumber: String,
    onValueChange: (String) -> Unit,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    isError: Boolean = false
) {
    val numericRegex = Regex("[^0-9]")
    RadiusOutlinedTextField(
        modifier = modifier,
        value = phoneNumber,
        onValueChange = {
            val stripped = numericRegex.replace(it, "")
            // Allow editing by limiting to 10 digits only during input
            onValueChange(if (stripped.length > 10) {
                stripped.substring(0, 10)
            } else {
                stripped
            })
        },
        placeholder = "Phone Number",
        singleLine = true,
        visualTransformation = NanpVisualTransformation(),
        keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Phone),
        isError = isError
    )
}

class NanpVisualTransformation : VisualTransformation {

    override fun filter(text: AnnotatedString): TransformedText {
        val trimmed = if (text.text.length >= 10) text.text.substring(0..9) else text.text

        var out = if (trimmed.isNotEmpty()) "(" else ""

        for (i in trimmed.indices) {
            if (i == 3) out += ") "
            if (i == 6) out += "-"
            out += trimmed[i]
        }
        return TransformedText(AnnotatedString(out), phoneNumberOffsetTranslator)
    }

    private val phoneNumberOffsetTranslator = object : OffsetMapping {

        override fun originalToTransformed(offset: Int): Int =
            when (offset) {
                0 -> offset
                // Add 1 for opening parenthesis.
                in 1..3 -> offset + 1
                // Add 3 for both parentheses and a space.
                in 4..6 -> offset + 3
                // Add 4 for both parentheses, space, and hyphen.
                else -> offset + 4
            }

        override fun transformedToOriginal(offset: Int): Int =
            when (offset) {
                0 -> offset
                // Subtract 1 for opening parenthesis.
                in 1..5 -> offset - 1
                // Subtract 3 for both parentheses and a space.
                in 6..10 -> offset - 3
                // Subtract 4 for both parentheses, space, and hyphen.
                else -> offset - 4
            }
    }
}

[Max]

You should not create val numericRegex = Regex("[^0-9]") in every recomposition, pls use remember here or define somewhere outside. Also i gave your code to ChatGPT and it says your OffsetMapping calculation is wrong. I don’t want to paste LLM answers here, so maybe head over to the LLM of your choice and let them explain.
I had similar issues in the past on iOS, only on real phones it was not possible to input sth in fields. Try without all the transform calculation and it probably works