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Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

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Re: Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

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And then because on screen keyboards suck so bad we had to make phones BIGGER which meant they needed to be THINNER which meant cameras needed to stick out, and here we are, in a world where an iPhone Pro Max takes up the full height of my jeans pocket and digs into my hip when I sit down. Yeyyy.

iPhone mini was a thing for a while. It still has the stuck out camera but otherwise only a bit larger than the iPhone 5 from 9 years earlier. I wish they hadn’t ended it on the 13, because I also feel phones are getting too large.

I am going to run my 13 mini into the ground.

I honestly miss the OG iPhone size.

Re: Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

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Not installable on 12

Thanks, that's ... disappointing. Alternatives?

AnySoftKeyboard works on Android 12 and 13 and has arrow keys available in one of the default layouts. I’m actually using my own customized layout since it was pretty easy to make one a few years ago. If you want a layout that is customized to your needs and has all the exact characters you need, I would recommend looking into it. I think it was just editing an XML file and building the layout in Android Studio (the layouts are installable as separate add-ons for the main app).
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