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You can drag around the whole screen btw. If you need to go further just hold your finger at the side of the screen and it will work as if you hold the arrow keys on a keyboard.

I believe it also responds to velocity, so quick swipes will get you quite far.

On iPad you can also do a two finger drag.

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That doesn’t answer the question. Since the space bar is at the bottom, I can’t navigate lower than the initial position of the cursor. Aaaaaand since the keyboard is not wide, I can’t go laterally to a portion of a URL that is far away.

Just to prove it’s possible to do better: iOS used to have the two-finger drag (one force-press, one gently navigating wherever you want, like on the Touchpad) and it worked.

I know something that works and something that doesn’t.

iOS doesn’t.

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