How do I put the cursor mid-word in iOS 13 phone?

iOS 13. iPhone X. Safari, working in text boxes such as on StackExchange.

Happens all the time where I miss a space bar and wind up with 2 words glued together. I don’t use Simple English, so iOS auto-suggest usually fails to see it as 2 words.

Somehow I dodge the bullet of AutoCorrect changing it.

But now, I need to place the cursor in the middle of the mystery word, so I can add a space bar. IOS can’t relate. It wants me to either change it to a different word altogether, or stubbornly selects the whole word.

I can drag the handles to the middle to where it selects 1-3 characters, sacrifice those, and retype them. That sucks.

I want to know the right way to place the cursor mid-word.

Solution 1:

You can use Trackpad mode.

Long-press the Space bar, than slide your finger on the keyboard to position the cursor.

Solution 2:

The only way I manage this is to tap away from the word and then move the cursor by dragging it with my finger as close as I can get.

Like you though, I often sacrifice at least one character and on my iPad Pro often two or three AND have an issue with the shift key randomly selecting itself!