Hi Anna, I find that there are situations where this doesn't work or at least not until you start deleting a few characters first one by one. I just ran across this when I had to enter my Microsoft Id password in the Settings app, I had pasted in something and it seemed wrong because instead of 16 characters Voiceover indicated it was 17 so I wanted to delete all and doing a double tap and hold did nothing and I had to delete all characters one by one. In text messages I sometimes have to delete a couple of characters one by one and then if I do double tap and hold it will work.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: January 18, 2022 7:31 AM To: VIPhone Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: How to delete large chunks of text? Hi Kay, You can also touch the Delete key, then do a double-tap and hold. Just like with 3D Touch, text will continue to be deleted as long as you hold your finger on the screen. Best, Anna On Jan 18, 2022, at 3:43 AM, Bill Gallik <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello Ms. Malmquist et al, If you want to delete the entire composition there are two procedures you can use, both imply that you have “Edit” and “Text Selection” deployed in your Rotor settings. To remove the entire current composition do this: - Deploy the Rotor with the 2-finger turn. - Continue this “turning” gesture until you come to the “Edit” action. - Using the single finger swipe, locate and double tap the “Select All” option. - Now, tapping the “Delete” button will remove everything. To select and delete only portions of a composition do this: - Position cursor where you want to start the text selection. - Deploy the Rotor once again, locating the “Select Text” option. - Once you’ve located the “Select Text” option do not double tap here, this will likely result in selectig the “Character” option! - Now using the single finger swipe down (or up), select whether you want character, word, line or page selection option. - Now, using the single finger swipe (left selects elements back) or right (selects elements forward) until all of the text you want to delete is selected. - Now, tapping the “Delete” keyboard will rid you of those selected elements. A note here concerning the “Page” option. Depending on where you have positioned the cursor, swiping left will select all text before that position and swiping right will select all text beyond the cursor. HTH * * * * * * * * * * * * - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin - "Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person" - "is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." - Shari R. Barr On Jan 18, 2022, at 12:30 AM, Kay Malmquist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I really miss 3 d touch. It used to be that if you had a bunch of text like in a text message that you wanted to delete, you could just go to the end of it and press on the delete button and it would rapidly delete all of it. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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