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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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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