[wayneftw]

It does not work on the default iOS keyboard. You can't just slide your finger around the spacebar, you have to long press on the keyboard and hope you don't trigger the alternate character popup instead. Then while you're moving the cursor around, half the time it will just start selecting text. Moving the cursor sucks on iOS.

[pavon]

Thank you! I've frequently read articles and forum posts describing the feature like the parent does, and I've never succeeded in getting it to work. I just assumed it wasn't supported on my old phone. Now I know.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

I'm an android guy, but force touch moving cursor on iOS works very fine. Better than spacebar sliding. Just press harder on on keyboard and it'll hide keys and let you desk the cursor around, mouse style.

[wayneftw]

https://imgur.com/agqXWWJ

That's me pasting your comment into a reply box and then using my iPhone 8 to move the cursor around. Once I start moving the cursor all I'm doing is moving it, nothing else. You can see that it starts selecting text randomly twice. It actually took me longer to trigger it this time than usual.

I think it happens when I moved to the top of the text and then make a downward motion. It's really, really annoying on a regular basis.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

Likely you have a defective unit, which somehow breaks the force touch input.

[wayneftw]

No, I've been through 3 iPhones now and they all did it.

[lights0123]

All in production iPhones don't have force touch.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

I don't have any device without it on hand, but since force touch is basically a glorified longtap, I guess some form of longtap will do the trick.

[lights0123]

Yes, they have "haptic touch", which means long press. Force touch specifically requires you to apply more pressure than a normal touch.

[akvadrako]

I also thought it worked better than Android on the SE 1.