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Wow, thanks anandtech, I didn't know about the 3d touch on the keyboard to enable the "trackpad cursor mode." That should double my text input speed when I make a mistake (often) while being much less annoying than the old way (touch/wait/magnifying glass/retry).

I've felt ambivalent about 3d touch until now.

Now if I could get a dark UI theme on it my last gripe would go away. (No, negative is not good enough ;)

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I was super excited about this feature. In practice, it's nice for moving the cursor a long way quickly, but the finer stuff isn't any faster. It also tends to shift as I left my finger so it makes being precise difficult.

It's the same issue as long-press, it can be super useful when you know about it but it's just not discoverable.

I've found not only is it faster (no waiting and no necessary hand movement), but I'm more accurate, maybe because my finger isn't in the way. Often with the mag. glass I have to do it more than once to get the insertion point right. The feature a minor revolution.

You're right, wish it could be more discoverable, but now that I know, am very happy.

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