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> Edit: I just discovered now that if you long-press on the text to place the cursor, you get a little magnified view and it does let you place the cursor in the middle of a word. So that's probably the most efficient method currently available.

I chuckled a little at this as this is one of the oldest features of iOS, probably even from back in the pre-iPhone 4 days.




:(

In my defence apparently it was removed in iOS 13 and only recently came back.


It's just another example of how mobile UIs are bad due to their form factor: they lack discoverability.


It was still there but it required a force click anywhere on the keyboard.


> probably even from back in the pre-iPhone 4 days.

The first iPhone I got was a 3GS and it had the feature. The person at the apple store helpfully demonstrated it to me when I went to pick it up.


> I chuckled a little at this as this is one of the oldest features of iOS

Reminiscent of how I feel whenever I copy and paste something on Android




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