Text manipulation issues.

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Text manipulation issues.

Afternoon all. My wife and I both upgraded to iPhone 11 Pros last Saturday. She was coming from the 8, and myself from the X.Long story short. Neither of us seem to be able to use any of the text editing gestures on these new phones. The single tap, double tap, triple tap, three finger pinch, etc. None of them work. They were working just fine on our old phones. They day we upgraded I literals held the old phone in one hand and the new one in the other. The old one performed just as it should. while new one did nothing. the old phones were riunning 13.4.1 same as the new ones. I spent about an hour with both phones side by side making sure al of the setting matched. I'm at a loss, and I starting to reach a significant level of aggravation These devices aren't cheap, so I really have little tolerance when they don't function as expected. Anyone have any advice?

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13

Posted on Apr 25, 2020 3:44 PM

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 4:18 PM in response to sberman

Text Editing

Scroll bar scrubbing

Instantly navigate long documents, web pages, and conversations by dragging the scroll bar.

Cursor navigation

Moving the cursor is even faster and more precise — just pick it up and drag it to where you want. It will automatically snap to lines and between words.

Text selection

Select text just by tapping and swiping. For quick sentence and paragraph selection, triple‑ or quadruple‑tap.

Intelligent selection

Double‑tap to quickly select addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and more.

Cut, copy, and paste gestures

New gestures make cut, copy, and paste a snap. Pinch up with three fingers to quickly copy, pinch up with three fingers two times to cut, and pinch down with three fingers to paste.

Undo and redo gestures

Undo with a simple three-finger swipe to the left or redo by swiping three fingers to the right.

Multiselect

Quickly select email messages, files, and folders by tapping with two fingers and dragging.

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/

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sberman

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Apr 25, 2020 4:01 PM in response to Jay1117

Jay1117 wrote:

I don't have that sensitivity option.

Neither do I (iPhone 11 Pro; iOS 13.4.1).

But that's the point - sensitivity went away and is now replaced by duration. You may choose "fast" or "slow" and see the response by holding the image as shown in your screenshot.

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sberman

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Apr 25, 2020 4:11 PM in response to Jay1117

Jay1117 wrote:

but all of the documentation at Apple indicates that the gestures should work across iOS 13.

What gestures might you mean specifically?

Learn basic gestures to interact with iPhone - Apple Support

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 4:08 PM in response to sberman

Right, I did the little response time test. I Have been tapping on this screen and all different speeds. The gestures just don't work. I will get the contextual menu if I Loog press on a single word. but all of the documentation at Apple indicates that the gestures should work across iOS 13.

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 4:51 PM in response to Jay1117

I’ve been looking through the threads here. It seems like quite a few people have had the same issue since the upgrade to 13.4.1. Just weird because that’s what I had on the last phone and I had no issues at all.

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 3:58 PM in response to sberman

I don't have that sensitivity option.

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 4:13 PM in response to Jay1117

Do these setting look correct to you?

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sberman

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Apr 25, 2020 4:23 PM in response to Jay1117

Jay1117 wrote:

Do these setting look correct to you?

Yes.

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 4:24 PM in response to sberman

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Jay1117 Author

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Apr 25, 2020 4:33 PM in response to sberman

They are very useful and time saving. the "select an entire sentence" is probably the one I use the most. I haven't been able to since last Saturday. They worked effortlessly on the X.

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