Have you accidentally highlighted and deleted a word when trying to place the cursor?

[TH55]

I don't understand how that could help users spell right

 

[TH55]

If I write a word that the iPhone isn't familiar with, it gets underlined with red. Bringing up the magnifying glass, moving it into place and releasing it can sometimes make the entire word selected, and pop up a suggestion about the "correct" form of the word.

Because of this, starting to type deletes the entire word since it became selected even though I dropped the cursor in the correct place.

Very annoying since the suggestions are usually worthless, the behavior inconsistent and the dictionary seriously flawed for my language.

Do Androids do this?

 

[Agent-P]

I hate highlighting and placing the cursor in iOS, I think Windows Phone 7 does a better job.

I love the way WP handles text highlighting. Touching the word to highlight it is infinitely more convenient for me than the way iOS does it. I'm looking for a solution (via Cydia) to do this on my iPhone, but I haven't found one yet.

 

[TH55]

So you are moving your arms while you type?
I usually don't do jumping jacks and/or cartwheels while typing a message. To each his own I guess. /sarcasm

Then why do they have "shake to undo killer"?

 

[TH55]

I love the way WP handles text highlighting. Touching the word to highlight it is infinitely more convenient for me than the way iOS does it. I'm looking for a solution (via Cydia) to do this on my iPhone, but I haven't found one yet.

How does WP handle it?

 

[Agent-P]

How does WP handle it?

If you tap a word it will highlight it and also provide autocorrect suggestions (as opposed to iOS where you need to tap first to bring up the little popup menu and then press "select") . You can briefly see the tap to highlight feature demoed in this video.

 

[1DApple]

Have you accidentally highlighted and deleted a word when trying to place the cursor?

Nope never have.

 

[TH55]

Nope never have.

That's extremely unusual. You must not perform that action ever.

 

[Shockwave78]

This really annoyed me as well for a long time. Still the magnifying glass annoyed me. One thing i love about WP8 is that when you want to place the cursor anywhere, you just press and hold like the iphone but the cursor floats above your finger and you drag it down and where you want it to go. I wanted this type of action for years and when i tried the 1520 I couldn't believe it had it...

 

[TH55]

This really annoyed me as well for a long time. Still the magnifying glass annoyed me. One thing i love about WP8 is that when you want to place the cursor anywhere, you just press and hold like the iphone but the cursor floats above your finger and you drag it down and where you want it to go. I wanted this type of action for years and when i tried the 1520 I couldn't believe it had it...

I'll have to try it

 

[spinedoc77]

Apple really really need to implement the little pointer that Android has where you can drag it to edit wherever you want. I can't count the number of minutes I've wasted in my life trying to get the text cursor to move to where I want to edit text on my iphones.

I don't know why Apple is so slow in doing anything intuitive with the keyboard. Between lacking the text pointer and things like Swype, which is amazing, I wonder what's going on over there.

 

[C DM]

Apple really really need to implement the little pointer that Android has where you can drag it to edit wherever you want. I can't count the number of minutes I've wasted in my life trying to get the text cursor to move to where I want to edit text on my iphones.

I don't know why Apple is so slow in doing anything intuitive with the keyboard. Between lacking the text pointer and things like Swype, which is amazing, I wonder what's going on over there.

It's likely more that Apple thinks they don't actually need any of that.

 

[ucfgrad93]

It happens to me on occasion. It is annoying when it happens, but thankfully it doesn't happen too often.

 

[spinedoc77]

It's likely more that Apple thinks they don't actually need any of that.

Apple does make some weird decisions.