[chazhaz]

The problem here is that the “move left to expand left” and “move right to expand right” doesn’t map mentally to the way a cursor works.

With a traditional cursor, it places an anchor wherever you’ve moused down and then drags the selection around that anchor.

Whereas with Haptic Touch selection, there’s no anchor, so you find yourself selecting text you didn’t mean to. I’m sure that once you’ve gotten used to it, it’s a nice feature; but it’s not intuitive if you’re not accustomed to it (which seems to be the majority of folks).

[pmontra]

I enabled arrows keys on every single keyboard on the Android devices I owned. I use them to move the cursor and fix mistakes, usually by tapping and adjusting with the arrows. Faster than attempting to tap at the right spot. Are there no arrows on iOS keyboards?