>>> My guess is that people had no idea it was there. Likely it had very low usage statistics and so Apple cut it in order to...
Right there.
I am often frustrated that I cannot edit a URL in the address bar - but not frustrated enough to use a different phone or explore.
What would be useful is some kind of "how to use your phones hidden features" guide on the phone (no not on a website somewhere an actual supported by Apple real tutorial). Then both I can find out and Apple can find the real ratio here - people who know how to use 3D whatever and who just don't bother.
Funny enough, the infrastructure for that exists too, and you may not realize it … in the Tips app. What is lacking is the even just moderately advanced topics.
I suspect that the long-press alternative in software was found to be sufficient alternative to not warrant the force-press. I wonder if this is where we are going on Mac too where, e.g., force press to trigger definitions of words is a godsend especially when leaving foreign languages,
To be clear, I mean if the irl is longer than the width of the visible address bar, I cannot move the cursor outside the visible box and bring the rest of the url into view. So for example I might want to edit a query param.
>>> My guess is that people had no idea it was there. Likely it had very low usage statistics and so Apple cut it in order to...
Right there.
I am often frustrated that I cannot edit a URL in the address bar - but not frustrated enough to use a different phone or explore.
What would be useful is some kind of "how to use your phones hidden features" guide on the phone (no not on a website somewhere an actual supported by Apple real tutorial). Then both I can find out and Apple can find the real ratio here - people who know how to use 3D whatever and who just don't bother.