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.

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 ...

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 ...

As noted in many of my Mac OS X Hints, I’m an avowed keyboard junkie—if there’s a way to do something by leaving my hands on the keyboard instead of reaching for the mouse, then that’s the method I’ll ...

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 ...

This week saw the publishing of one of the iPhone’s most recognizable patents. Arriving with iOS 3 in June 2009 was the ability to select, copy, and paste text using two draggable selection handles ...

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 ...

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 ...