Re:Apple’s iOS versus Google’s Android
by lost-found on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:07AM
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If you hold down the spacebar in iOS, you can move the text cursor around pretty easily. You can also double tap a word to select it. Sometimes it is a little clunky though…
In the context of Don Norman's book, this is a bad design with hidden affordances and missing signifiers. How should a new user discover that they have to shake their phone to undo some text editing?
Text input and editing are still my biggest hurdle on iOS. I make more typos than on Android, and editing text in input fields is always a strange experience. Selecting single words and correcting some letters still feels "alien" after over a half year on iOS.