Mobile Keyboards That Stop Duplicating Words, Backspace That Deletes Whole Characters, and Promo Codes That Redeem Clean -- Plotiar Product Updates (August 2026)
A friend of mine drafts on the train, thumbs going the whole ride, and swears by whatever keyboard her phone shipped with. She sent me a paragraph once where the word "chapter" had somehow become "chachapter," three times in a row. Her keyboard had tried to fix a typo and instead of replacing the mistake, it had just taped the correction on next to it. She laughed it off and fixed it by hand, the way you do with a text message. It is a different thing entirely when it happens inside the actual manuscript you have been building for six months.
That is the shape of most of what got fixed this stretch: small, specific ways the keyboard and the page could disagree about what you just typed, plus one that had nothing to do with typing and everything to do with a promo code not doing what it promised.
Typing on Mobile Stops Fighting You
Four separate bugs in how the canvas editor handled deletion and correction are fixed, and together they cover most of the ways a phone keyboard could quietly wreck a sentence. The worst one: predictive keyboards correct a misspelled word by deleting it letter by letter and retyping it, and the editor was measuring how much to delete incorrectly, so the correction landed next to the original word instead of replacing it. Depending on which keyboard app you use, this meant words duplicating constantly, or extra spaces creeping into fast typing sessions, or -- in one especially bad case -- a swipe-typed word getting mangled so badly that "Hello world" came out as "H world." All three are gone now; deletion during a correction removes exactly what it should and nothing more.
Separately, Backspace and Delete were counting the wrong thing when removing a single character. For plain English text you would rarely notice. For an emoji, an accented letter, or a character from a script like Hindi, you would: a backspace after a wave emoji could leave behind an unreadable box instead of removing the whole emoji, and a backspace after an accented letter could strip the accent and leave the bare letter sitting there instead of disappearing entirely. Deleting a character now removes the whole character, in every language and every emoji, every time.
Last, deleting text next to a link you had pasted in used to occasionally take out the entire link in one keystroke on a phone, when all you meant to do was fix a typo nearby. That whole-link removal still exists as a shortcut for when you are deliberately holding Backspace down at a keyboard, but it no longer fires from the kind of single, incidental delete a touchscreen sends. Deleting near a link on mobile now behaves like deleting near any other text.
Promo Codes Redeem Cleanly Now
Redeeming a promo code could fail for reasons that had nothing to do with the code itself, and the failure message gave no way to tell what had actually gone wrong. Worse, a failed attempt could quietly use up one of the code's redemptions anyway, so a single-use code could end up "already redeemed" with nobody actually holding it -- and every retry ran into that same wall. Promo codes now redeem correctly on the first try, and if a redemption does ever fail, it no longer counts against the code. You keep your shot at it.
My friend's paragraph, by the way, is fine now -- she went back and fixed "chachapter" the old-fashioned way, one letter at a time, the exact thing a keyboard is supposed to save you from doing. That is the whole point of this stretch: the keyboard should do what it says, so you can go back to thinking about the sentence instead of the software underneath it.