I don’t see “Select All” option when I highlight text on iPhone

I’ll never update my phone again if we lose options like select all . Wtf is apple thinking

It is a feature. Apple determined that it is better for you not to be able to select all. All is too much for the user to handle.

Apple has instead chosen to only allow you to select small amounts of text because ALL is too much. Also, select all allowed some users to select all of an article or other text and this allowed them to save a whole story from a site.

This is not a profitable thing for publishers so Apple decided that the publisher should be taken care of over the user. Apple doesn’t just think that selecting all is bad for you as a user, but also bad for big businesses which are more important than the annoying user.

Thank you for your patronage.

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Hello everyone! I have the answer for this issue. When typing and the need to “select all” arises, simple single click any word in your text. This will place the cursor. Once the cursor is placed, single click that word once more and the “select all” option will be visible.

Hope this helps! Have a great day!

I figured it out. Woohoo. So (1) highlight the first word you want to delete. (2) when the blue dots appear take the end dot (end of the word) slide it to the beginning dot. The options will appear scroll over to select all. Note: Select all does not appear unless both dots are together at the beginning of your selection. Hope this helps everyone.

Since I use my IPhone to write sometimes entire chapters, I need select-all so badly. Why take away basic features?

What are wholly bizarre answer! If you really are employed by Apple, I think you need to have some helpful instruction about how to present information concerning users. What needs to happen here is if you really are removing “select all” as an option, you’ll explain it in someway that is a win for both the users and the people presenting material on the web. The way you have presented it is a loss for users, and if this remains the next time I’ll be considering a phone it won’t be Apple….

And completely amazing is your idea that users don’t matter, which you present in the last part.

The iPhone is becoming inefficient for business activities by discontinuing this feature. The option is a common work activity while using a work device, already it has proven to disrupt many of my uses of the device.

Thank you for saying that! Totally agree with you. If Apple continues on the downward trajectory, I will also be looking for alternate NON Apple phone. They’ve become just like any other company the past year or so. Steve Jobs would never run Apple like it’s being run now. People’s heads would be rolling … FIRED!

Safari “Select All” Workaround (iOS 17)

• Open webpage in Safari
• Tap Share
• Tap Print
• Either: at bottom, hold page 1, then tap the preview - OR - pinch page 1 to zoom

Select All works on the resultant PDF preview you have opened. Cancel to return to the webpage. Yay!

First of all you are completely incorrect, so I’m not sure why you’re forming your response with such a confident tone as if you were an Apple developer or even remotely connected to the company. And then in addition to that to just be completely rude and passive aggressive/sarcastic at the end of your comment is just uncalled for. this is simply a user who is frustrated about Apple taking away the ease of use for a functionality that many people use. But to correct you, it’s not a feature that was removed. It’s just a feature that was simply changed in it gesture activation. So I would , advise you to do your own research before acting so superior in these forms and then attacking other individuals for expressing their concerns and disappointment Apple features. The original poster in no way stated anything that makes them believe Apple revolves around them. That is a component that you added in your own attack to belittle that person. Keep everything friendly and supportive in these forms as people come here for help demean others like yourself simply misinformed about issues here. And just so you know, I actually AM an apple software engineer who can verify that there is no truth to what you’re saying in regards to why the feature was Changed. And that is changed and not removed as you seem to believe. Unfortunately change became a lot more complicated than it used to be, but it certainly is still a feature. There’s no room for disrespect here.

I want the select all or select anything. Why did Apple get rid of something that everybody used and needed?

Users are what keeps Apple in business. Our opinions do matter and if they don’t matter to Apple, we can take our business to Android phones. If anyone is annoying, it is you.

I figured it out. Woohoo. So (1) highlight the first word you want to delete. (2) when the blue dots appear take the end dot (end of the word) slide it to the beginning dot. The options will appear scroll over to select all. Note: Select all does not appear unless both dots are together at the beginning of your selection. Hope this helps everyone.

So apple is so inept, so simple, they can’t code it to be able to select all of our text but not web pages?

Here is what I noticed tonight. I DO still have the select all feature at times. It works in some apps but not all. I used it tonight in one app, but after copying and pasting it into another I could not get it to work again.

So is it possible some apps have it and others don’t?