Typing and editing text in iOS 13.1.2

Hi everyone.

Yes, indeed, I noticed the same issue.

When I try to edit the label of an alarm, it is quite impossible to go between two words or between letters of a word.

And this problem appeared only after upgrade to ios 13.

Yes. I have been struggling with this issue in SMS, FB posts, and Gmail. It is a cross-app system change that is annoying as heck. I loved being able to press and hold for the cursor magnifying-glass viewer to pop up and allow me to position the cursor more accurately. Now, i just have to retype the whole word. I also am having trouble with the new word being typed coming up with a capitalized first letter. Why would it capitalize the word in the middle of the sentence? As a work-around I have taken to using the "mouse-pad" feature by pressing the area below the "space" bar, which brings up a more robust mouse option, allowing me to position the cursor in the edit place I need. But why are they doing this? Why are they making me change? Are they looking to alienate their customer base? It's working.

I figured out how it works. You can drag the cursor wherever you want it, by gently “picking it” up & moving it/sliding it around. It’s unbelievably simple yet so frustrating not to be notified about these changes; this particular one is so different from before.

I thought this was just ME! I just soent £10000 on an iphone that cannot recreat sms text which was used pre smartphone NOW APPLE THE WEALTIEST COMPANY WTF using a phone of some 10 yesrs old is better st creating fluid writting in text wifhout having to reedit typing WHY???? why why? I eant to take this phone back

in writting this how many times do you think ive had to waste my time going back to respell APPLE IS NOW A NONSENSE i greatly respell regret respell ... ive turned of sll tedpell respell te respell text asist tespell respell

**** isent it Ooo no mistake there.

im uptodate respell ios reinstalled its all slow for £1200 wtf.

Just spent 2 hrs restoring updating and on phone to support x3 people

I had thought the text issues were a bug only eventually to find out it was an improvement???

Is there any notification system I can sign up to where I can be informed of the major changes with system upgrades

so that I don't have to waste time in the future

The support phone people were great but none of them had awareness that these issues related to an upgrade

and were trying to fix it with 1st a software update and the a factory restore before finally a restore and access to latest new editing funtionality info

Best way I found was to hold the space bar and use keyboard as tracker pad - and exploring "qucik text" which looks good once I have got used to it

If anyone from Apple (or community) is reading this thread can they please respond re sign up for info re op system changes?

Thanks Geoffrey

I just about threw my phone across the room a few minutes ago because I'm getting so fed up with this. When I'm texting someone, I tap a certain place to edit my text errors, and if I drag the cursor too high or too low, it exits out of edit mode, and then I have to retap the message and try again....and again....and again....and again....and again. The best solution I find lately is just to delete everything or a good majority and start over, being very careful. I'm really frustrated by this. If it's a bug or a glitch, it's not fixed yet. If it's a new feature, it needs some more work. Frustrating.

My lovely iPhone has been turned into a frustrating old android that I was using over 10 years ago!! I loved iPhone once upon a time. Now sending messages typing out texts is just plain awful. What have you done Apple?? What a hash, at least I know I’m not the only one thinking this. I must say, every now and then I get to use an old iPhone 5 that used to mine, I gave it away to a family member, thinking that newer was better ha! That phone has not been updated. Typing on that is sooo easy I hardly ever make a typo in the first place due to the design of that model. It is easy to hold and so easy to be accurate when typing. But if I do make a mistake I can easily and quickly edit it, heaven! ....I want it back.....☹️

It’s a nightmare... I have two iPhones (for different purposes) and thank goodness I only upgraded one of them to IOS 13. I will not upgrade the other iPhone or my iPad Air until Apple change this particular editing gesture back to the way it was. Because touch key is sensitive, even after holding down the cursor to enlarge and moving it to the misspelt word it often moves directly to highlight the whole word or the cursor moves somewhere else in the text... ITS BLOODY USELESS... it’s put me off purchasing another iPhone or iPad til this is fixed!

Yes, I am frustrated by the same situation. Using voice to text is such a pain, as I almost always need to edit a word, here and there, in some way. Very frustrating! I almost don't want to use it! Apple should fix this!!

Yes, i have this "issue" too. I hate it. It is impossible and makes texting, typing anything much more difficult. Hopefully Apple will fix with yet another upgrade????

Yes! And it’s a royal nightmare. I’m soooo annoyed. Annoyed is an understatement.

yes!! Finally, I thought I was the only one. I absolutely hate the new update and editing text. It’s so difficult now.