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Re text selection, what I find annoying is that that you can't just tap with your finger on the text itself to place the cursor in an exact location. You can tap to place the cursor, but it always snaps to the end of a word. Why?

My favourite iPhone feature that was removed though was being able to fully turn off WiFi from the Control Center (last seen in iOS 10).

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You can then ‘grab’ the cursor and move it. Or just use the hold spacebar trick two merge those two steps into a single action.

Yeah, I just find it a bit strange that you can't just tap once for exact placement. I know from previous non-iOS phones that it's not that hard to get it in the right spot.

Works for me on the second tap.

If I tap twice it selects the whole word. Leaving more time between taps has the same result as one tap. iOS 15.1.

Don’t double tap. Tap once, wait a sec, tap again in center of word.

Doesn't work, maybe it's model-specific. I'm on a first gen iPhone SE.

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