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I know about it, but that's a second action (moving it after tapping), or a more difficult one (moving it all the way there via the spacebar touchpad). Most of

by Nition 3y ago

I know about it, but that's a second action (moving it after tapping), or a more difficult one (moving it all the way there via the spacebar touchpad). Most of the time if a tap would put the cursor where I tapped, it'd already be there. Edit: I just discovered now that if you long-press on the text to place the cursor, you get a little magnified view and it does let you place the cursor in the middle of a word. So that's probably the most efficient method currently available.

satvikpendem 3y ago
> Edit: I just discovered now that if you long-press on the text to place the cursor, you get a little magnified view and it does let you place the cursor in the middle of a word. So that's probably the most efficient method currently available. I chuckled a little at this as this is one of the oldest features of iOS, probably even from back in the pre-iPhone 4 days.
- Nition 3y ago
  :( In my defence apparently it was removed in iOS 13 and only recently came back.
  - atq2119 3y ago
    It's just another example of how mobile UIs are bad due to their form factor: they lack discoverability.
  - jahewson 3y ago
    It was still there but it required a force click anywhere on the keyboard.
- otp209 3y ago
  > I chuckled a little at this as this is one of the oldest features of iOS Reminiscent of how I feel whenever I copy and paste something on Android
- kagevf 3y ago
  > probably even from back in the pre-iPhone 4 days. The first iPhone I got was a 3GS and it had the feature. The person at the apple store helpfully demonstrated it to me when I went to pick it up.