I find that hard to believe. What about basic text editing like selecting and moving around blocks of text, copying and pasting between documents, etc?
Those kinds of tasks are excruciating to perform on iOS.
Those kinds of tasks are excruciating to perform on iOS.
If you are a person who would mash the delete key once per character to delete a line of text (e.g. my parents) then perhaps the excruciating text selection is not really a negative, as text editing on computers was "always" excruciating. The simplified user experience, is however a positive.
So your argument is more true for middling users than for expert users of something like vim or emacs that can do every text edit function quickly with an external keyboard in iOS.
Show me where iOS implements incremental search and a persistent mark, then. For that matter, show me where any OS implements them.
On iPads and 3D Touch iPhones things are generally a lot better outside safari and when editing text. You can 3D Touch or two finger poke the on screen keyboard to activate a text cursor and even select text by pushing again with 3D Touch. you can do the same with an iPad but it’s a little more clunky requiring an extra tap.
Of course you can’t beat a good old text editor.
I have an iPad and iPhone running iOS 11. I'm not alone in thinking that what should be a basic feature like text selection is awful.
From 10 days ago in the iOS subreddit, "Text Selection is Broken in iOS": https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/7mcvhu/text_selection_...
> How can something so important & basic literally be broken in the most recent version of iOS?!
> It’s been like this for what seems like forever. Having to select some text an upwards of 10 times is pretty annoying.
It seems other people feel the same way.
GP is talking about text selection using an attached/bluetooth keyboard.
I'm sure there are zippy ways to edit text on iOS, but like you, after using a mouse, hell, even a trackpad, I think it's soooo much quicker using the latter.