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Phone number input caret jumps on Android Chrome

The caret jumps, flickers or overwrites digits when typing fast or on Android mobile Chrome.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 26 March 2021 · last reported 4 June 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Developers using the react-phone-number-input component report that the typing cursor sometimes leaps to the start of the field, flickers, or overwrites digits when people type quickly on Android mobile Chrome.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

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  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.