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You may know this already, but holding your finger on the keyboard space bar turns the entire keyboard into a trackpad you can use to slide your finger around and position the caret where you want a lot more easily. Not very discoverable, I agree.

How did you discover this? I’ve been an iPhone user since maybe the early 2010s and never knew about this. It makes me wonder if there’s some tutorial I should go through that has a bunch of tricks like this.

Yea the keyboard and text editing is really annoying, that’s one of the things I hate about this phone. Putting special symbols is a chore to say the least!

It used to be better on Android, but with Android 12, selecting text is even worse than iOS.