Placing cursor middle of word - iOS 13

That’s not much help unfortunately. Even turning the keyboard in to a track pad, I’m having to spend ages trying to get the cursor in exactly the right point so it doesn’t just snap to the end of the line. And as above, if it’s a spelling error with no suggestion, almost impossible to correct without completely re-typing. I’m wasting so much time!

Apple - please revert back to the old setting of one tap to move the cursor to any character position in a word or space in a text field. Using the space bar and holding it down provides no precision of where the cursor ends up. This is seriously frustrating to have to delete an entire word just to fix one character.

You are not addressing Apple here. This is a user to user support forum and Apple does not participate here. If you wish to share a thought with Apple about an enhancement, use the feedback link here, Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Actually the new method is very intuitive and makes perfect sense:

Type and edit text on iPhone - Apple Support

If you're unhappy about it, feel free to let Apple know; we're all just fellow users here.

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

It has been explained more than once in this thread how to handle the movement of the cursor in iOS 13. Please take the time to read the thread. As Lawrence has said, there isn't anything to fix. It just works differently now than what you may have been used to. It works quite well if you do it correctly.

It's not trolling, it's an accurate representation of the fact that since the day iOS 13 was released, I've never seen a cursor being moved by "trackpad" methods pop anywhere.

If you actually have and can reproduce it, notify Apple of the issue here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Nope! It is intermittently still a problem. With some apps the space bar works, with some it works sometimes, and sometimes I

just retype the whole stinking word. Very aggravating, and being told it isn’t a problem for some people doesn’t fix it for me!

My iPad Pro has always had this problem, long before iOS 13. Much of the time I'm able to manage with dragging the cursor, but sometimes that just doesn't work for some odd reason. Another facet of this issue is when you have a word or words highlighted and want to move the starting point. The context menu appears right where the starting point cursor of the highlighted text is, and it's nearly impossible the grab that cursor without the device thinking you're using the context menu. If you try dragging the cursor in such instances, both the context menu and the highlighting disappear. Yes, there are workarounds as usual, but why do so many things in iOS have to require workarounds? Why does Apple allow so many things in an OS that require workarounds instead of just fixing the problems?

There are just more items in the long list of reasons why I'll never understand why people actually prefer Apple devices. I suppose for many it's just a matter of sticking to what you're familiar with, not unlike the old Windows vs. Mac debate. You're comfortable with what you 'grew up' with, and something different just seems out of place. I wouldn't have this iPad at all if it weren't for the fact that some of my aviation apps are only available on iOS. That's another issue that defies logic when you consider that iOS has roughly a 25% share of the mobile OS market and Android has about 75%. Just as Apple seems to deliberately hobble their products by making them more difficult to use than products that use a different OS, developers of some apps deliberately limit themselves to devices with a much smaller market share. I just don't understand it. iOS devices do several things better than their competitors, graphics capability seeming to be the most predominant of those. So it just seems weird that they limit themselves in so many other obvious, and often rudimentary, ways. I wonder sometimes how incredibly far they'd probably go if they fixed these issues. It's actually kind of sad really.

Sorry. I'll get off my soapbox and shut up now.

marla192 wrote:

The entire purpose for posting was to get input from others.

Which is why there are 5 pages (65 posts) of input from others in this thread. And reading those will provide lots of input from others.

Well, up until now I was firmly in the other "fix it" camp.

But you have just blown my mind as I now find the trackpad feature is indeed on both platforms. The only real difference is on Android you can just tap in a word to place the cursor. It can be inaccurate but Android keyboards can have cursor keys to tap it around. Now that I've played with this on both platforms I *gulp* actually quite like it. It is useful to know there is an identical way to manage this on both platforms!

Many thanks

No, I’m joking about going to a Samsung, I don’t even know what their cursor is like.

I will say that I thought the magnifying glass was much easier.

What we’re all the complaints about?

I literally just struggled with the cursor now, after realizing I had a spelling error!

The magnifying glass allowed me to see around my finger at where I was placing the cursor. Not to mention, now it’s hard to get it to stop highlighting words instead of just placing the cursor.

So frustrating.

Perhaps I just never got the memo?

When I use the space bar to drag the cursor to the middle of the word, it jumps to the start of the word as soon as I let go of the space bar. I can’t imagine why Apple actually paid a programmer to break something that was working well before.

Interestingly, as you could see from previous posts, my cursor did something similar with the "hold cursor down" method. I'm wondering if some random setting on our iphones is causing this strange cursor behavior. Luckily, the spacebar method continues to work for me without issues.

I have the same issue. I am constantly using my phone for typing notes, writing, texting and emailing messages, so I have to edit text quite a bit, and even after over a year or however long this change has taken place, I still cannot get used to it! It extremely frustrating, and if there was a way to switch back to the old texting/ magnifying glass, I would be happy. As you said, the new way has constant glitches, doesn’t actually go where my finger wants it too. The space bar thing seems awesome in theory, yet never actually works and I wish I could describe more of the exact malfunctions I experience, but The key point I’d like to express here is that never a day has gone by that I am able to use the scrolling and or text selection in a way that feels effective, efficient, or satisfactory in any way shape or form. I have delayed speaking on this as I thought it was just me, and needing to give it time to get used to. At this point, however, I’m beginning to think that someone decided to take a wrench to perfectly good circular wheel in order to reinvent it, now I can’t even drive the car, and it’s rather frustrating! Also try going back to edit/ add an extra word in a sentence, why the **** does it automatically capitalize The first letter you type WTF? This has got to be the worst, “improvement” I’ve ever seen!

Twice as hard as it was before. Cursor used to go where i touched. Now it’s all messed up. Hate it!