I've taken a poll of fat-fingered iPhone users. The results:
81% [3% error] of fat-fingered users now find their iPhones harder to use! The loss of the little cursor-placement magnifier from the keyboard editing tools has made living the Text Lifestyle much more difficult for us. Please bring back the magnifier!
My fingers are fat, and I approve this message.
iPhone 6, iOS 12
I think it’s a matter of habit...
Have you already tried to transform your keyboard into a Keypad? Press and hold the spacebar, until the keyboard becomes light grey. Then slide your finger on the keyboard to place the cursor wherever you want.
Regards
Giulio
Yes, and even w/ the ‘hold down the space bar’ option, how inefficient is that?? A whole extra step that STILL doesn’t work as well. They had a good thing going & jacket it up.
Not a matter of habit at all. More like a lack of knowledge. The short "explainer" that announced the new "magnetic for word-ends" behavior did not offer your explanation. I did a fair bit of searching for alternate methods of placing the cursor in the middle of a word, without getting a useful hit. Thanks for providing an explanation that works - something the original announcement I read failed to do.
Adding to the confusion was erratic behavior of the cursor when attempting to manipulate it directly. I was occasionally able to place the cursor mid-word by sliding it directly, though more often not. Which led me to believe it was a matter of using, say, a particular pressure on the cursor. I was unable to get consistent results with any pressure I tried. And as I originally mentioned, even when I did find I could move it through a word, I couldn't tell where it was, exactly. GRRRR!!
In addition to what Proust provided, it would help you a lot if you read this link from 9 to 5 Mac about the new gestures --> https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/12/gestures-undo-ios-iphone-ipad/
Ps: Asking for the magnifyer back on this forum won't get Apple's attention at all. This is user to user only. Apple isn't reading these threads for suggestions.
Please bring the editing magnifier back to the keyboard tools!
