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> double tap on word, start typing the correct one.

Why can't I select the correct location and just backspace one or two characters instead? Android handles it perfectly fine, and has for more than a decade.

> I'm not sure what you mean here, as I can't say that I find myself doing this often, so maybe I'm not your target audience here.

Copy-paste menu is very finicky. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't, the selection marks seem to miss the mark occasionally as well.



I've had all the problems you mention on android over a 4 year period of a Pixel phone into a samsung phone, and none of them in the last 6 months going back to iOS

> Why can't I select the correct location and just backspace one or two characters instead

Press and hold and it will drop the cursor where you want.




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