Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok
by Nition on Sunday September 24, 2023 @03:37PM
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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 the time if a tap would put the cursor where I tapped, it'd already be there.
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Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok
by satvikpendem on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:05PM
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> 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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In my defence apparently it was removed in iOS 13 and only recently came back.
It was still there but it required a force click anywhere on the keyboard.
It's just another example of how mobile UIs are bad due to their form factor: they lack discoverability.
> 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
> 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.