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Text selection on inside a textarea is pretty easy on the iPad and iPhone if you are using the on-screen keyboards. On the iPhone you can use force-touch on the
by ahakki 9y ago
Text selection on inside a textarea is pretty easy on the iPad and iPhone if you are using the on-screen keyboards. On the iPhone you can use force-touch on the keyboard area and then move the cursor wherever you wish. Force-pressing again starts a selection. On the iPad you use two fingers to drag across the on-screen keyboard and tap with two fingers begin selecting, which doesn‘t really work if you are using a hardware keyboard. So it‘s a mixed bag.
- criddell 9y agoI just learned the two-finger drag last week and it's a game changer. I really need to spend some time sitting through the iOS tutorials to see what other functionality I'm missing out on.
- thinkythought 9y agoThis has the common newer era iOS issue though of, yea it works pretty good but it completely fails the "will you figure it out on your own" test. Someone had to show me, and all my friends had no idea it was even a thing. The old selection method is still terrible and needs to be revamped
- valine 9y agoThis only works for text you're editing. Selecting text on a webpage or anywhere the keyboard isn't available is still painful.