I'm a little chubby but have been told I have piano playing fingers that are in no way clunky. I've had this problem since it was introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 and feel like it has barely improved over the years—and yet I never hear anyone complain about it! I've watched other people frustrated with the same problem and when I ask them about it they seem confused. I think we're just used to a terrible experience—but as a UI Designer it drives me mad!
Well, I definitely don't have piano playing fingers...I can barely manage a guitar -- but I could do that (in the past) and I also touch type. It's very frustrating. And yes, it has always been bad, at least in my experience. With the phone's increased functionality and the Notes application, I've been wanting to copy/paste more frequently when I only have my phone...leading to general disgust with the selection experience. I do wish they would address this. Can it really be that difficult to make a more responsive and accurate text-touch selection possible? It's the same as how the keyboard in various Apple apps will default to the stupid layout missing the ".com" button, like when you're filling out a field requiring an email address. Sigh.
What's funny is that Serenity Caldwell made her entire iPad 2018 review on an iPad. In this one part she tries to select a paragraph as a part of her cutesy video and missed the first word and had to go back and select it. She just left it in too which makes me wonder if she tried to do it multiple times and was like "Screw it!" or was being honest about the clunkiness involved in making something creative on iOS. I will say that I have been using my iPad Pro more than ever and even selecting text on the bigger screen isn't much easier sometimes. I think the way certain pages render lend themselves to crappy selection. You'd think Apple could figure out a way around that, but getting even this far is probably what took copy and paste years to show up in the first place.
