Hi, You can do this using the Voiceover "text select" feature. Try this when you are in your edit field:
1.Position the edit cursor at the beginning of the text you want to delete. 2.Turn the rotor to "text select". Note that you must first add Text Select to your rotor in Settings/Accessibility/Voiceover/Rotor 3.Flick down to choose the amount of text you want to select, character, word, line, etc. For your purpose, choose "word". 4.Now flick right to select that amount of text. In your case, a word. 5.Continue to flick right to select all the words you want to delete. Note that you need to select (highlight) text to do a bulk delete. 6.If needed, flick left to unselect a word. 7.Once all the desired text is selected, move the rotor away from the text select option. 9.Tap the delete key on the on-screen keyboard. 10.If you made a mistake, you can always use the "undo" option in the "edit" rotor option to bring back the text you just deleted. This sounds complicated but it actually goes quite easily once you are used to the process. I hope this helps. Dave Clement Winnipeg MB On Jan 19, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Debby <dm-h...@comcast.net> wrote: Hi, I have a question relating to this subject. When you want to delete just a few words in a text message, can it be done any other way other then to just delete character by character. When I look at the edit menu while I am in a text, all I see is “select” and “select all.” I tried double tapping on “select” thinking it might bring up a menu for selecting words or lines, but no go. So am I missing anything if I just want to delete a few words. Thanks for the help! Take care and stay safe! Debby From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 1:04 PM To: VIPhone Mailing List <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How to delete large chunks of text? Hi, This wouldn't work for deleting, but for opening context menus and such, you can also do a triple-tap. Best, Anna On Jan 18, 2022, at 11:32 AM, thom3...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the same things that 3D touch did can be done with a single finger double tap and hold. Then, when your finger comes up, the magic happens. This is true with apps to get to the context menu. Thom From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Kay Malmquist Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to delete large chunks of text? Sieghard, I will also try the double tap and hold. I definitely miss 3 d touch. I used it for a lot. Even the app switcher could be activated by a harder press on the left edge of the phone. Granted, you now only have to swipe up to the second haptic so that is good now too. Kay Malmquist kay.malmqu...@gmail.com The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. Kobe Bryant - 1978-2020 - Professional Basketball Player ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 10:43 AM Subject: RE: How to delete large chunks of text? Sometimes you have to delete the first few letters one by one, but usually once you do then doing a double tap and hold on the delete button will work. This, by the way, has nothing to do with 3D Touch, that was when you pressed harder on a button to generate different responses and it's been replaced by double tap and hold for the most part. Another approach is to turn the rotor to Text Selection, then swipe down and make sure it's set to words and then, if you are at the end of a block of text, swipe right to left to select the text you want to delete word by word, when you are done tap delete. If you want to delete all that is there use Select All and then delete. From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Kay Malmquist Sent: January 17, 2022 10:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: How to delete large chunks of text? Hi all, I really miss 3 d touch. It used to be that if you had a bunch of text like in a text message that you wanted to delete, you could just go to the end of it and press on the delete button and it would rapidly delete all of it. Now it seems that you have to press delete on every letter. This is a real pain and I'm hoping someone will tell me a wonderful work around for this. Thanks much in advance. Kay Malmquist kay.malmqu...@gmail.com The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. Kobe Bryant - 1978-2020 - Professional Basketball Player -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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