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How? I know you can move the cursor by holding space and dragging but how do you start the selection?
by gloxkiqcza 10mo ago
How? I know you can move the cursor by holding space and dragging but how do you start the selection?
- ulbu 10mo agotouch the keyboard area with another finger :)
- hulitu 10mo agoI have an Apple hand, with only one finger.
- The_President 10mo agoI found the Apple Table Saw user!
- talkin 10mo ago“Intuitive!”
- nmlt 10mo agoThanks for that tip! Unfortunately, it's still bad. It's a bit better than dragging the handles of the selected area, but if I go to far and want to reduce the selected area, it doesn't work anymore.
- ulbu 10mo agoyes, this feature seems to be extend-only.
- epaga 10mo agoI do it by double-tapping a word and then dragging the handles… does that work for you?
- brigandish 10mo ago> iOS Text Selection is Pure Chaos > You just wanted to move the cursor. Now everything is selected. > You want to position the cursor at the end of a line. You tap. It selects the last word. You try to grab the handle — it doesn't respond and deselects. You tap again, now it selects the whole sentence. You tap blank space to deselect — nothing. You tap five more times. On the fifth, it selects all. You switch apps hoping the selection disappears. You tap and hold — sometimes text selects, sometimes a menu appears, sometimes nothing. Got a Magic Keyboard? Good luck — trackpad selection just doesn't work half the time, but touching the screen does. Eventually you select all, delete everything, and retype from scratch. Apple has had 17 years to figure out touch text selection. This is where they landed.