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0 pointsTrickyRick6y ago0 comments

Force touching on the keyboard gives your finger control over the cursor more like a touch pad on a computer. It works really well on the iPhone, not sure if it's available on iPad. But yet again, one of those feature you just have to know about to use.

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johnwalkr6y ago· 6 in thread

It was never available on iPad, and is no longer on newer iPhones. It's replaced by a long touch, but this cursor control function has disappeared.

monocularvision6y ago

Long touch the space bar in the keyboard to get the trackpad-like functionality back.

JMTQp8lwXL6y ago

Thank you. I had trouble activating this feature. On iOS it seems to work anywhere on the keyboard, not limited to a particular key.

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TrickyRickOP6y ago

Thank goodness it's still around! Yet once again, no way of knowing that feature is there without being told.

derg6y ago

I am actually kind of annoyed they removed the force touch on newer iphones. I used it so often on my keyboard.

The tradeoff was a 4-hour longer battery so there was probably more gained than lost there but the usable area to move the cursor shrunk considerably (to a long touch on the spacebar only) and makes it harder to use.

cma6y ago

It is on iPad, two-finger touch the scroll bar and it does it.

selectodude6y ago

I hate how utterly undiscoverable stuff like this is. I use the force touch trackpad on my iPhone constantly and always wished it existed on the iPad.

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thejohnconway6y ago· 1 in thread

Doesn’t work on an iPad, which is where I want the feature the most. Also, force touch is no fine in newer model phones (because they screwed up the implementation in my opinion).

freehunter6y ago

The same thing works on an iPad or phones without Force Touch, you just need to start the gesture from the space bar. Long-press the space bar and now you can move the cursor anywhere by dragging.

Yes, hidden and undiscoverable gestures are a problem.

vincnetas6y ago

Use three fingers on keyboard for same effect on devices without force touch.

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