Problems With Text Editing in IOS

By Scott Duck, 5 June, 2019

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iOS and iPadOS

The recent announcements concerning iPad OS have got me thinking about doing word processing on the iPhone or iPad. I am perfectly happy with doing word processing on my Mac but I'm trying to figure out how to practically do it in IOS. I don't really need to do it in IOS but I suppose it just bugs me that I can't figure out how to do it. After all, it might come in handy some time.

One big problem that I have consistently encountered is that, When navigating large documents and moving up and down within the text by using the arrows on a keyboard, Voice Over will skip lines or repeat lines. At first, when I was using a PC, I thought there was just something about the way that Apple handles keyboard text navigation that I wasn’t getting. However, I have now used a Mac as my daily driver for well over two years and the Mac very rarely does this. When it does, I can use Option with the up or down arrows to go to the beginning or end of the current paragraph and that cures the problem. This trick does not work in IOS. I have consistently experienced this problem across many devices and IOS versions.

Those of you who do word processing in IOS, do you encounter this problem? If so, how do you get around it? Or does it just not bother you like it does me? LOL

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