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Nition | karma 6810 | avg karma 4.04 · 2023-09-24 14:37:06

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.

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satvikpendem | karma 10472 | avg karma 2.45 · 2023-09-24 15:05:15

> 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.

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Nition | karma 6810 | avg karma 4.04 · 2023-09-24 15:08:45

:(

In my defence apparently it was removed in iOS 13 and only recently came back.

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jahewson | karma 7178 | avg karma 2.82 · 2023-09-24 15:17:14

It was still there but it required a force click anywhere on the keyboard.

atq2119 | karma 3120 | avg karma 2.55 · 2023-09-25 05:59:38

It's just another example of how mobile UIs are bad due to their form factor: they lack discoverability.

otp209 | karma 30 | avg karma 1.76 · 2023-09-24 16:23:36

> 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

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kagevf | karma 210 | avg karma 0.88 · 2023-09-24 19:30:17

> 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.

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