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Oct 28, 2017
5,210
So I just had my mind blown about something that you can do on the iPhone. I've wasted so much time doing this the inefficient way.


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Shoe

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,190
iPhones with 3D Touch have always been able to do that, and all other models + iPads got it in iOS 12.
 

Hasemo

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,513
Tokyo
You don't even have to press the space bar, works on the whole keyboard. But yeah, super old news for phones with 3D touch.
 

signal

Member
Oct 28, 2017
40,254
The fact that this got popular on twitter shows how poorly advertised / communicated 3d touch was.
 

Halbrand

Member
Oct 27, 2017
19,625
Wow I'm using this for the first time and amazed

Does manually selecting text not work in Safari for anyone else? It's fine for everything else but I haven't been able to select any text for the past few weeks/months on my iPhone X and new iPad Pro.
 

Merv

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,469
It's not just Apple. My V30 does this, at least horizontally. Although it's easier imo to touch the text and use the tear drop to move the cursor.
 
Oct 27, 2017
767
It's great.

Also, for those of you with compatible phones: The 3D Touch version (press anywhere on the keyboard and press down harder to select) is much better because you can highlight text all with one hand, whereas two are required with the space bar method (which feels more natural on iPad, where it also works).
 

Qasiel

▲ Legend ▲
Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,330
This is really useful to know, especially since autocorrect has got wildly out of hand for me recently.
 

Unknownlight

One Winged Slayer
Member
Nov 2, 2017
10,620
I don't know how long the iPhone has had this feature, but I've done it on Android for years. It's the best.
 

AlwaysSalty

The Fallen
Nov 12, 2017
1,442
Assholes should have Told everyone when this feature was implemented. The other way is horrible and never works. Usually I would try and try until I gave up and deleted two to three words and wrote them over again.