{"id":32791,"date":"2021-06-09T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32791"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:13:27","slug":"ios-15-cursor-placement-and-text-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/09\/ios-15-cursor-placement-and-text-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 15 Cursor Placement and Text Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/06\/07\/ios-15-brings-back-the-magnifying-glass-for-accurate-text-selection\/\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/06\/07\/ios-15-brings-back-the-magnifying-glass-for-accurate-text-selection\/\">\n<p>After being <a href=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/ios13-text-selection\">unceremoniously removed in iOS 13<\/a>, Apple has restored the magnifying glass (loupe) when interacting with text on iOS 15.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when a user starts to move the text cursor, a bubble appears above their finger magnifying what is shown below. This makes it really easy to see where the text cursor is being placed, and where text will be inserted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/8\/22524824\/apple-ios-15-iphone-text-selection-magnifying-glass-reversal\">Mitchell Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/08\/ios-15-and-ipados-15-announced\/\">iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/ios-13-cursor-placement-and-text-selection\/\">iOS 13 Cursor Placement and Text Selection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mayo: After being unceremoniously removed in iOS 13, Apple has restored the magnifying glass (loupe) when interacting with text on iOS 15. Now, when a user starts to move the text cursor, a bubble appears above their finger magnifying what is shown below. This makes it really easy to see where the text cursor [&hellip;]<\/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":"2021-06-09T20:13:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"fbd401d4-3d8d-47c0-ab6e-b5cf8d56841c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-09T20:13:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-9QB1D2NR8CrbrXPjVaEHA","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":[2],"tags":[31,2078],"class_list":["post-32791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32791","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=32791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32792,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32791\/revisions\/32792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}