{"id":23449,"date":"2018-11-21T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23449"},"modified":"2018-11-21T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:59:08","slug":"amazement-at-ios-cursor-movement-shortcut-says-a-lot-about-discoverability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/amazement-at-ios-cursor-movement-shortcut-says-a-lot-about-discoverability\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazement at iOS Cursor Movement Shortcut Says a Lot About Discoverability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It is a handy tip, for sure, but not one that I, or probably most people who read this site, would consider particularly obscure<\/em>. But there’s a confluence of reasons why this is making waves at this particular moment, and I thought it might be interesting to break down why<\/em> as well as what it might mean for Apple and iOS.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So, complicating the discoverability of this feature is that Apple has three separate<\/em> mechanics for the same cursor movement feature on 3D Touch iPhones, non-3D Touch iPhones, and iPads. That is a little bit bananas, and has led to confusion and more than a few inane arguments on social media.<\/p>\n

But at the root of this issue is that this feature is not<\/em> necessarily well known, not because it hasn’t been written about or discussed, but because it’s not discoverable—which is to say, if you were not aware that such a feature existed, how would you ever know to go looking for it in the first place?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even less discoverable is the shortcut to extend the selection. Without 3D Touch, you tap the keyboard with another finger while holding down the first finger that initiated cursor mode, then swipe with the first finger. I’ve read about this many times and still forget how it works. I always think I’m supposed to swipe both fingers on the screen, perhaps because I remember the older two-finger iPad shortcut.<\/p>\n

Previously: Six iPad Gestures You Should Know<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Moren: It is a handy tip, for sure, but not one that I, or probably most people who read this site, would consider particularly obscure. But there’s a confluence of reasons why this is making waves at this particular moment, and I thought it might be interesting to break down why as well as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-21T17:59:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"0b4f0551-85b2-45a4-9cd8-7f25f2ccea60","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-21T17:59:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AC08FUYWyRaSc2H8l8szqYA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1272,31,1610,145,85,1338,1732,423],"class_list":["post-23449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3d-touch","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-se","tag-iphone-xr","tag-keyboard"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23450,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23449\/revisions\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}