While clicking and dragging is useful for selecting blocks of text, it can be cumbersome for finer selections, such as selecting individual characters or text that extends across multiple screens.

With the release of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, Apple introduced a number of new text editing taps and gestures that can be performed on both iPhones and iPads. These taps and gestures make it quicker and ...

If you're constantly losing your place or having to start from nearly the beginning of text selection processes because your mouse twitches or your cursor gets away from you, stop getting "dragged" ...

With the launch of the new iPad Pro and Smart Keyboard Folio, the built-in iPad text selection tool is again drawing criticism from users. However, there’s one little feature that has largely gone ...

Even if you’re brand new to the Mac, as long as you’ve had some exposure to personal computing in general, you probably know how to select text—just click-and-hold, then drag the mouse, and the ...

What if I told you that ultra-precise text editing and selection is not only possible, but easy, on all Apple gadgets running iOS 12? If you, like me, have been struggling to edit that typo in a slab ...

Despite being such a primitive task, text selection on browsers has remained pretty much the same throughout these past years. Thankfully, browsers themselves have come a long way. Support for ...

Ever need to copy, share, or speak text on iOS? Of course you do. Here are four different shortcuts that can make the process quick and easy. You may have known one or two of these, but I was shocked ...