iPhone 12 Max Pro 14.2 :: Touch Cursor

I wish I searched for this forum a long time ago. This is one of my favorite added features has ever came out with, using your finger over text is downright nauseating.

Apple- if you see this, PLEASE bring back full keyboard touch cursor capability. My favorite feature was ripped away for almost no reason! If people need light 3D Touch turned on and this messes with their experience, they should turn up their 3D Touch.

I want my cursor back. Put it in a little

update!!!! Thanks!

That’s the point, this feature for one, doesn’t work as well, and two, doesn’t use 3D Touch haptics to move the cursor so it ends up being slower and more unresponsive and also keeps you having to put your finger over your own text, which makes you unable to see. Having your finger over the actual keyboard keeps things accurate and out of the way.

@hansonc No, it will not come back because, as you've phrased it, you're asking for a device feature which no longer exists: 3D Touch. I don't believe developers embraced it (just spitballing but why as a developer would I implement a feature that only works in the minority of users, iPhone users, when no Android phone supports or will ever support the tech?) and so Apple killed the feature off. I'm adjusting to life on iPhone 12 after relying heavily on that feature on my iPhone X.

But what I want to know is if there is any way to highlight using the free cursor. Previously you could 3D press in over a word or passage to highlight it and I want to know if there's any easy way to highlight with the free cursor now that 3D Touch is gone. If not, that is a major step back in terms of usability.

@TomFooligans,

sorry, I don’t understand your point. Why is it impossible to bring the feature to the whole keyboard, if it does work on the spacebar. Or am I just not getting it, since I am not accostumed to 3D touch.

@apple

being able to navigate the cursor through the space bar is the minimum, it was WAY easier to do that through anywhere on the keyboard though.

Bump, this feature was awesome and I just changed phones and I don’t have it anymore, now it’s just the space bar… almost makes me wanna go back to my old phone, please update this apple, this is ridiculous

I was just researching if there’s some kind of setting to get back the “anywhere cursor move” function and to no avail. Why are they removing features? This seems a bit counter productive. I used that feature literally like 100 times a day and I’ve had this new phone for over a week and STILL trying to move the cursor from a letter and not the space bar. I can’t explain in words my rage lol.

Hi, Did you also find a possibility how to move the cursor while you’re typing on the phone number keypad? (For example: I copy paste a phone number to call someone but still have to edit the area code. Right now I can’t do that because I can’t move any cursor at all ok the keypad) Thanks for any help here!!

I have an iPhone 12 pro purchased about a month and a half ago, running the latest IOS, whatever that is, and at least when composing text messages, and I think email also, and elsewhere, the cursor does appear where I place my finger in the text, except occasionally it will's get stuck and not move to where my finger is, unless I tap on the screen at the new location to get it going. Touching the space bar, or below it, also works but you have to hold your finger there all the time, although is a little easier to see where the cursor is because it's a very long line, up away from your finger. I see that they cursor does become an elongated when your finger is on the text, but it could be a little longer as sometimes if you move your finger down a little to see the line of texture working on it follows your finger rather than remaining on initial line, or maybe that's because I lifted my finger briefly. I wish they would bring back the keyboard with the left and right curse arrows which makes it easier to manipulate the cursor within a word. Sometimes the cursor seems to have momentum where it will keep going a little after you lift your finger if there's any motion before that, which is annoying. I don't know the glass screen protector has an effect one way the other on the behavior of the cursor in response to touch or not.

Long hold space bar gets you a cursor sure but…. I used to be able to long hold then push to select and use the cursor to select text.

I’m super furious this has gone. Apple must all have big hands and long fingers. For me it’s very hard. Want to return this 12 pro and go back to my old one.

So miffed!

Omg thank you so much. I just got my IPhone 12 Pro Max and was really frustrated that I couldn’t press on the keyboard anymore to move my cursor to specific places. Now that I see it’s the keyboard, I guess that seems more comfortable.

Thank you! It works now. I was starting to get frustrated trying to figure out how to turn the feature on. And I also agree with you. Apple should definitely bring it back to when hard pressing anywhere would allow me to use the cursor. I'm also more accustomed to the old feature and this will take forever to get used to. So Apple. Please. Thank you.

In Messenger, my keyboard disappears, and I can’t get it back to finish a message. Does anyone have any magic tricks to make the keyboard reappear while typing in Messenger?

Wow! Thanks for this!

Does this solution work with third party keyboards like SwiftKey?

Yes please get it backk