[PragmaticPulp]

Press and hold on the spacebar. Wait a second. Then you can move the cursor left/right from the spacebar.

iOS is generally quite good at these things. Like any new platform, you can't expect it the UX to be identical to an old platform that you're more familiar with.

[sethammons]

I think my gripes so far are around discoverability. How did you know to click and hold the space bar? Now that I know, I like it. Never would have know otherwise. Drag from the bottom left and up to dismiss an app, do the same but go sideways to get to history of apps, etc.

[Razengan]

They have most of this in onboarding tips as well as the Tips app.

[sethammons]

Not sure what to tell you. I did not dismiss any tips that I can recall. I recall how to create folders and drag apps to it from onboarding. Mostly, I have to ask someone or search Google to find out how to do the most basic of things.

[Roboprog]

Thanks. It’s a shame they couldn’t display left and right arrows if you click into the middle of the previously entered text, though.

[gbrown]

But if the UX is objectively worse, requiring additional unnecessary steps, it’s super annoying.

[unloco]

that's subjective. It's not an additional step, it's a different way of doing it. I personally feel like it's better. I dont have to worry about not placing the cursor at the right place. I just click it and move the cursor around where I want.

[mulmen]

Wow, thanks. I had no idea this was a thing. How did you discover this?

Is there a similar trick for selecting text? What about selecting text from another source like an email or website?