Text selection on an iPhone 6 Plus

7 February 2015, 13:20

The new iPhone 6 Plus includes a unique keyboard that appears when the device is held in landscape orientation, and it includes left/right cursor keys at the top right. These move you back and forth one character at a time through text.

What’s less obvious is that if you double-tap the Shift key, to enable Shift Lock, the cursor keys will instead highlight text when you tap them. Give it a try. Sadly, this doesn’t work if you hold down the Shift key with one finger and tap left/right with another.

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