We’ve blogged about this before… But the iPhone space bar trick is worth repeating. It’s amazing. It’s a way to quickly jump around the content of a text message.

The feature enables iPhone users to press and hold on the space bar of the keyboard and then drag their finger around to move the cursor to any position they want. Brilliant.

The tip caused such delight a couple of years ago that it began trending on social media. Many people were still using old methods such as trying to tap on precisely where in a message they wanted to move the cursor in order to make edits…

How many people typed 2-3 lines of gibberish to test this?✋🏼 — Chris Zaker (@filtermanZaker) November 19, 2018

Literally the No. 1 thing I dislike about cellphones, now solved. — Sean Stangland (@SeanStanglandDH) November 19, 2018

OMG. This is like gliding your scissors across wrapping paper 💀🔥🙌🏼 — Andrew Lee (@andrewdlee) November 19, 2018

However, the trick itself is not new. It’s been on 3D Touch-enabled iPhone handsets since the iPhone 6S launched in 2015.

3D touching (pressing harder than normal) anywhere on iPhone’s keyboard or using two fingers on iPad’s keyboard has worked for several years now. — Matthew Leidholm (@MattLeidholm) November 19, 2018

half my mentions: woaaaaaaaah other half my mentions: u dum — rat king (@MikeIsaac) November 19, 2018

Unless this is from iPhone XR, all iPhones (post iPhone 6S sans iPhone SE) showcase this behaviour on entire keyboard. Just that the action isn’t click and hold but a deep press for hover and a deeper press for text selection. — 17 people (@SuperRetina) November 19, 2018

Happy days! Still!