Hi, This wouldn't work for deleting, but for opening context menus and such, you can also do a triple-tap.
Best, Anna > On Jan 18, 2022, at 11:32 AM, thom3...@gmail.com wrote: > > Some of the same things that 3D touch did can be done with a single finger > double tap and hold. Then, when your finger comes up, the magic happens. This > is true with apps to get to the context menu. > > Thom > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Kay > Malmquist > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:33 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: How to delete large chunks of text? > > Sieghard, > I will also try the double tap and hold. I definitely miss 3 d touch. I > used it for a lot. Even the app switcher could be activated by a harder > press on the left edge of the phone. Granted, you now only have to swipe up > to the second haptic so that is good now too. > > Kay Malmquist > kay.malmqu...@gmail.com <mailto:kay.malmqu...@gmail.com> > > The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be > great in whatever they want to do. > Kobe Bryant - 1978-2020 - Professional Basketball Player > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:siegh...@live.ca> >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 10:43 AM >> Subject: RE: How to delete large chunks of text? >> >> Sometimes you have to delete the first few letters one by one, but usually >> once you do then doing a double tap and hold on the delete button will work. >> This, by the way, has nothing to do with 3D Touch, that was when you pressed >> harder on a button to generate different responses and it's been replaced by >> double tap and hold for the most part. >> Another approach is to turn the rotor to Text Selection, then swipe down and >> make sure it's set to words and then, if you are at the end of a block of >> text, swipe right to left to select the text you want to delete word by >> word, when you are done tap delete. If you want to delete all that is there >> use Select All and then delete. >> >> >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >> <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of >> Kay Malmquist >> Sent: January 17, 2022 10:31 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: How to delete large chunks of text? >> >> 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. >> Now it seems that you have to press delete on every letter. 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