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Long/force-press the space bar to move the cursor around in text boxes like a touchpad.

Wow, thank you. I cannot count how many times I have tried to get in the correct spot of a long message by using my fat fingers and never ending up in the right spot and just deleting a few words to correct one letter lol.

I'm on Android and my keyboard does that too

On my iPhone, long pressing the spacebar means that moving my finger around moves the cursor around as if I was operating a touchpad.

On my Android phone (running gboard), long pressing the spacebar means that moving my finger left and right scrolls the cursor left and right, but it doesn't operate like a touchpad (the cursor doesn't move smoothly, nor does it move up or down).

Is that not the same for you?

I have the same touchpad-like behavior. Not using Gboard though.

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