[throwaway894345]

> bugs that go unfixed for years

For what it's worth, text selection has been badly broken on iOS for at least a decade and autocorrect has been steadily getting worse for probably the same amount of time, and these are features that affect the mainstream segment of Apple users on a daily basis. Apple seems generally happy to let bugs go unaddressed for years and years regardless of how many people they affect or how often.

[jjtheblunt]

How is text selection badly broken on iOS for at least a decade?

I seem to have it working just fine, though am not sure how I may have configured it to do such, without dedicating such to memory.

[Fr0styMatt88]

It’s really really inconsistent. Sometimes select all is available, sometimes not. Sometimes the handles don’t work. Selecting text in a scrollable region is fiddly, etc.

I’ve seen an insane drop in the quality of swipe typing recently as well. To the point where I’ll often go back to regular typing. I’ve made maybe six or more corrections just to this paragraph alone.

[jjtheblunt]

I think swipe typing suggests words inconsistent with any higher level language model, like word tuples, when proposing words which are possible matches for letter sequences swiped.

and it drives me crazy too.

I've just had good luck it seems with text select.

Have you found any way to do a Find within a span of text on iOS? That would be very useful, but I haven't seen it.