Missing Magnifying Glass in iPhone text editing.

Then you're doing it WRONG. There is no reason to have text under your thumb if you took the time to learn how to do this.

Since you are clearly too busy to take your time to learn, I'll take my personal time to help you.

1. Hold your finger on the Space Bar until the keyboard disappears
2. Keep your finger in the same place (don't remove it)
3. Slide your finger around and you'll see the cursor move.

There. Your finger will not be on top of any letters or words. And if you think this is difficult, no one can help you.

You can Google how to get the magnifying glass back till cows fly. Apple removed it (no one on this forum works for Apple as we're all users here) and they are highly unlikely to ever bring it back. So you need to learn the new gestures as Apple has implemented them.

@rbrylawski

You are always talking about editing. Selection is also for web-pages or other elements, and there you don't have a keyboard. So the only method is to select with the finger, and the selection is under your f***ing finger!

Have you tried pressing the Space Bar to convert Keyboard into Track Pad? Move your finger around the trackpad with ease.

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Here’s something else that’s been gone since iOS 8.4: Remember how you could turn your iPhone 90 degrees and the font size of an email enlarged automatically to fill the (now horizontal) screen? It was a beautiful little feature. No matter how the small the font was, you could just turn your iPhone on its size, and presto! You got a large font without text overflow on your screen. Any other effort to zoom leads to text overflow or other visual anomaly. I would sure like to visit with the genius at Apple who “fixed” both of these features when neither was “broke”!

It’s still there! DON’T press and hold like you would previously, just touch the screen and continuously scroll to the part of the word that you want. There’s no magnifying glass anymore, but the big vertical line will get you to the middle of the word.

agree and disagree; if enough people make a thing about it, I'd like to think they would consider changing it. "ya can't win if ya don't play".

and re touching and scrolling, I find it super wonky to actually get the cursor where I want it, which is what the magnifying glass excelled at.

Making a thing about here is pointless. Apple doesn't read these posts for anything other than violation of the terms of use. Use the Feedback Link I provided is the ONLY way to be heard at Apple directly.

Yes I Hate it too! But I think I can get used to it since I noticed this trick.... press and hold and once the cursor is under your finger you can slide finger down and the cursor will stay above your finger so you can move it around and see where you are placing it and your finger isn’t blocking the text. Try it... it’s not so bad.

I totally agree texting just became so much more frustrating!!! There was ALREADY an option before to slide, so why PERMANENTLY DELETE something that everyone was used to wtf??? I really hope they find a way to bring the magnifier back I can’t be alone in this frustration🤦‍♂️

I DO hate as well! It's was EXTREMELY helpful. Removing this feature means a downgrade, not an upgrade... Now you have to delete the entire word and retype it in case only one single letter is misspelled, which is TRULY a nuisance. There are other bugs as well. The app "Find My iPhone" is missing the word "iPhone". It's like "Find My" (that's crass!). The speaker volume level you set by using the physical buttons (iPhone 6s Plus) doesn't match with the virtual volume level that appears on the Control Centre.

Good news! You can still place the cursor in the middle of the word. Instead of magnifying glass, you magnifying the cursor line.

On the iPhone, lightly select and hold your finger on the cursor line. The line will enlarge and you can drag to drop it anywhere in the text that you desire. Also, there’s other editing features such as double tapping to select a word, triple tapping for a sentence, and tapping four times to select a paragraph.

Good news! You can still place the cursor in the middle of the word. Instead of magnifying glass, you magnifying the cursor line.

On the iPhone, lightly select and hold your finger on the cursor line. The line will enlarge and you can drag to drop it anywhere in the text that you desire. Also, there’s other editing features such as double tapping to select a word, triple tapping for a sentence, and tapping four times to select a paragraph.

Agreed. I won't say it's the most stupid thing they've done in a long time, but at least make it an option in settings. How the **** are you supposed to press and hold to get a thin vertical line appear under your finger, then move it to where you want? You can't see the **** thing, and as you say it's more luck than judgement if you land correctly.

Apple, if you read this, please, PLEASE bring back the ability press and hold to get the magnifying glass up as before. Make it an option for the handful of users who insist the new method is fine because it's Apple and what you do is perfect. Not always! :)

PS Pressing and holding the spacebar is not intuitive. Better, but still crap compared to what they had.

Absolutely HATE not having it anymore.

When inputting text it's a limited problem because you can use 3D Touch (not on 11) or sliding on the space bar.

But when selecting from readonly text, e.g. in a webpage, you select completely blind because your finger covers the text itself.

Magnifying glass was one of the best features in iOS since ever, something Android guys always envied to iOS!

I really can't understand some Apple choices 🤷‍♂️