If I try to edit text I have typed out, it is very difficult. It’s impossible to place the caret in the middle of a word and difficult to place it between. Very frustrating and I don’t understand why.

  • Fixbeat@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Seems like it’s going to work, then the cursor jumps back to wherever it was. Is there some technique for this to work?

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      1 year ago

      iPhone text selection and text manipulation in general is abysmal imo. I find typing on my iPhone to be seriously challenging.

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      1 year ago

      It feels like the iPhone keyboard changed and this happens significantly more often now. I think it’s apple trying to “help”

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      1 year ago

      hold down space and scrub around, and let go when you have the cursor positioned

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        1 year ago

        With some experimentation, I found this works with SwiftKey keyboard, but is unusable with the Apple keyboard. Not sure what to make of that.