Amazement at iOS cursor movement shortcut says a lot about discoverability

Six Colors:

Over the past few days, I’ve seen a ton of people on Twitter (including plenty of folks I’d describe as pretty tech savvy) have their mind blown by a tweet explaining how to move the cursor on the iOS keyboard.

It is a handy tip, for sure, but not one that I, or probably most people who read this site, would consider particularly obscure. But there’s a confluence of reasons why this is making waves at this particular moment, and I thought it might be interesting to break down why as well as what it might mean for Apple and iOS.

We talked about this on the Your Mac Life show three weeks ago but, as Moren rightly points out, this has been a feature for years. So why are people only just now “discovering” it?