It's not "on Android", it's whichever keyboard came with your phone. On iOS extremely small number of people use non-standard keyboard(it was later allowed), but on Android the keyboard was always an app and there are many.
It's the Google keyboard on a Google phone. Out of the box experience.
The Google keyboard on a Google phone for some locales can be very different. Notably, the keyboard for Japanese doesn't do the spacebar thing, on the other hand, it contains actual keys to move left and right.
Re:Text editing on mobile isn’t ok
by satvikpendem on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:06PM
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That's not been my experience on Android, I can go left right up down just fine. I've tried this on SwiftKey keyboard however but I'm sure it's the same in GBoard.
I am using the Google keyboard, android 13, and I cannot go vertical only horizontal.
It's really bad in GBoard. I just tap the text itself and if I get close enough to what I want to edit I just backspace and retype. I regularly remove 5-10 characters just to fix a single mistyped one.
I do the same. It's really bad. US English version.
I do have long press on space bar to switch between EN/FR dictionary. I wonder if that makes things worse.
So even if you know about it. It's more an exercise in frustration than anything.