Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Phone text input
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Text selection on phones is imprecise, slow and jankyUnreviewed
20162026- Text selection on phones is imprecise, slow and janky2025-09-24
- Copy-paste on phones needs many steps, app switching, and fiddly cursor placement2020-07-03
- Text selection on phones is hard because taps and highlighting get confused2016-08-31
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Text selection on phones is imprecise, slow and janky2025-09-24
- Autocorrect inserts wrong words, forcing the user to watch typing closely2021-11-05
- Copy-paste on phones needs many steps, app switching, and fiddly cursor placement2020-07-03
- No good way to accept or decline suggested autocompletion; first suggestion selected by default2019-01-28
- Autocorrect introduces mistakes the user must then fix manually2018-01-16
- Text selection on phones is hard because taps and highlighting get confused2016-08-31