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A comment on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by tails4e on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:21PM (#33256705)
Hold spacebar on android and drag lefg/right lets you cursor scroll really easily.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by markus_zhang on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:29PM (#33256771)
Thanks. Doesn't work on my phone. I'll check it out in product forum.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by fire on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:57PM (#33256994)
iirc this is a google keyboard feature specifically; it was added sometime after the pixel 3 released, I think?
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by tails4e on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:32PM (#33257267)
The keyboard I have is Microsoft SwiftKey, on a Huawei P30, so could be multiple different ways of getting it.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by fire on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:43PM (#33278889)
oh yeah swiftkey did clone the feature more recently!
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by chasebank on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:19AM (#33257606)
This is also true for iOS. It used to be hold any key to move cursor, then they got rid of that functionality. I found out last week you can hold space bar! It's back!!!
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by kergonath on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:27AM (#33258442)
AFAIK it was Force Touch on any key, and they changed it to long touch on the space bar when they got rid of Force Touch.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by Diapason on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:38PM (#33269565)
Pixel5 and bilingual user -> space bar is hacked by a language change option on long press (can;t deactivate this feature:( ), although there is ALSO a dedicated (optional) key for that that I have activated :(
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