Get Used to the New Text Gestures
In addition to QuickType keyboard, iOS 13 features several others gestures aimed at text selection and reading. Here’s a selection of the important ones.
- Cursor: You can now move the text cursor by simply tapping and holding on it and dragging it to wherever you’d like it.
- Selecting Text: Double-tap to select a word, triple-tap to select a sentence, or tap four times to select an entire paragraph. You can also simply drag a finger over text to select it.
- Cursor Mode: If you press and hold on any key in the native keyboard, you’ll activate the cursor mode. If you’re on a 3D Touch device, you can press deeper to select text. If not, you can use another finger to select text just as easily.
- Edit Menu: To activate an Edit menu with undo, redo, cut, copy and paste, just tap and hold with three fingers.