@joeo10 And I suppose it’s just a coincidence that these abandonments make it harder and harder for people to use feature phones and make it more and more likely that every one will need to have a passport/surveillance phone.
// @matigo
My dad sometimes asks people looking at device screens if they need a light on. I hope I never end up that bamboozled.
@phoneboy I don't think any one would in that situation. You need to settle into predictability. But hey, Spring will soon be here….
@phoneboy British journalist Peter Hitchens says his favourite town in America is Moscow, Idaho. No idea why. Seems like an obscure choice.
// @matigo
@peemee Sad news. But one way to look at it perhaps is, she lived about a decade longer than average. It must be a bit of an odd feeling though, to not have any parent around any more. I sometimes wonder what that will feel like because parents are like anchors.
@peemee Haven’t had condensed milk for forty years. I can’t remember what it tastes like.
@nitinkhanna If you press and hold until the first word of the bunch is selected, you can then slide your finger very quickly to the last word of the bunch as long as you’ve kept it pressed down. No need to fiddle with those annoying blue bar things. It’s all done with one press and slide. Nifty.
It doesn’t work with text you’re currently editing though. In that case, I do a double-tap to select the first word then drag the blue bar (or yellow in Notes) to where I want it. If you want to select a portion of a Note that you’re currently editing, it might be better to tap ‘Done’ at top right before doing a selection because that will allow you to do the method I mentioned first and it also vacates the keyboard allowing you to see more of the text.
Also, while editing a Note, a very quick triple-tap will select a paragraph. This doesn’t seem to work in web browser html text mind you (though it does in browsers’ text entry fields).
Someone else might know a better way. I’m not very nerdy about text on iOS.