[ac4tw]

Have you tried using force touch to select text--I have big fingers and it's my fav. iPhone feature. You just put the cursor on a word and press hard--the word gets selected. Then press even harder and the surrounding words get selected--you can also press hard and drag one side of the selection cursor to select left or right of the datum. (You need a 6s or greater phone though--5se won't do it).

[molf]

This only works for editable text, though, right?

Selecting text from websites or other static text is as clumsy as ever.

[chrispeel]

Despite 8_hours_ago's comment, I also find selecting text from websites to not be so easy on iOS

[8_hours_ago]

Nope, it also works for static text

[yig]

As of iOS 12, you can do the same thing by long-pressing the space bar. This works on phones without 3D Touch.

[jeffwass]

Damn, wish I figured that out sooner, very helpful, thanks!

Btw, there are always little gems to discover like this, Which I find out out after years of frustration. Is there a good source of “here are new iOS tricks you didn’t know about?”

[gattilorenz]

In the good old days pre-iOS 4 Apple wouldn't implement the "swipe down from the top of the screen" to access settings because there was no easy way to discover that the action was possible... [1]

I do think that part of the early choices were quite rational, but the spirit of "ease of use trumps everything" got somewhat watered down over the years...

[1] and I used Cydia hacks to get that feature (well, almost, you had to swipe horizontally). There's often a contrast between ease of use and assisting power users.

[tapland]

35 hours of youtube 'features you didn't know existed'-guides.

I don't know how we're expected to stay up to date without regular user friendly manual updates that get pushed.

[wwright]

Reading reviews of the OS updates?

[kkarakk]

new iphones won't do them either. force touch is gone on all 2018 iphones

[aneidon]

That’s not true. Only the iPhone XR is missing force touch (3D touch)

Edit: and even there, I believe you can long-press to get the same effect.

[saagarjha]

> I believe you can long-press to get the same effect.

Only in certain situations.

[kkarakk]

my mistake i guess i only watched an xr review