Sendkeys not actually putting text on textarea field - iOS / Safari / Appium

Issues/Bugs
1

For a webpage’s mobile version. It has a text area with a word counter, sendkeys() visually puts the text. but the word counter is still zero, and as soon as I click on another field, mentioned textarea’s goes blank.
I already tried using javascript, same result , visually gets filled but goes blank when going to another field.

Same webpage’s mobile version works fine on Android + Chrome.

2

Tap first on input then
1 try send now
Or
2 try

new Actions(driver).sendKeys(“your text”).perform();
3

Thanks for the reply. I tried the following:

  1. Click the element first, then sendKeys(), no luck
  2. Click the element then this:
    from appium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
    #Initial code to get to the web page
    element=driver.find_element(“xpath”,’//textarea[@id=“textarea”]’)
    element.click()
    actions = ActionChains(driver)
    actions.send_keys(“text to send”)
    actions.perform()
    driver.quit()
    and I got this error:
    It is mandatory to have at least one gesture item defined for each action. Action with id ‘mouse’ contains none" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=It is mandatory to have at least one gesture item defined for each action. Action with id ‘mouse’ contains none}
4

just Actions should be

5

Probably should’ve mentioned first, my bad. I’m using python, do you know which import I should do to use Actions? Here it says its ActionChains https://appium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/en/commands/interactions/actions/

6

yes. not much examples. checked here https://github.com/appium/python-client/tree/master/test/functional
ActionChains looks like more touch actions.

7

Would you mind sharing the code to import to use Actions? I could not find it on the repo you shared.