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The replacement of “force touch on keyboard to move cursor” is “long-touch on space bar to move cursor”. This works fine for western languages where the key to
by needle0 4y ago
The replacement of “force touch on keyboard to move cursor” is “long-touch on space bar to move cursor”.
This works fine for western languages where the key to input a space is large and centered, but some keyboards like the Japanese flick input keyboard look more like phone numpads where the middle of the keyboard is taken by the “number keys” (each key represents a consonant). The space key is located on the right hand edge of the screen, and while the “long-press to move cursor” shortcut still works, it’s only useful for moving the cursor leftwards since your finger is already at the righthand edge of the screen when the shortcut triggers.
It’s quite an unfortunate casualty caught in the crossfire between i18n, feature discoverability, and hardware cost-cutting.
- frankfrankfrank 4y agoIt’s definitely a solvable problem.
- busymom0 4y agoWhy doesn’t Apple use the empty space below the keyboard on the iPhones? Long press there could do the same as long press spacebar.