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Just a very few examples out of dozens:

Placing a cursor within text to make an edit. Tap the screen where you want to insert a cursor position. Quite often if it does insert a cursor, major fail, and more often it will not be where you wanted it. So now you have to either long press on the cursor, which often doesn't work, or long press on Space Bar, which is anything but intuitive. Then finally make your edit.

Selecting text with a finger. Select text by first long pressing the screen where the word is located. Repeat as necessary because it may or may not work. Now drag one or both of the dots to expand the selection. But wait, if you slightly go up hill of down hill the darn selection takes off at light speed and you wind up with several lines of text being selected, and you only wanted to select a few words on one line.

Selecting one or more words of text and replacing them with a paste operation. Repeat the steps above to select the text you want to replace with the paste operation. If the keyboard is not actively displayed, then you get a popup menu with the Copy, Look Up, and Share options. "Where TH is the Paste option?", you ask! Now you have to tap the darn screen to display the keyboard, and the result is you just unselected your text. Now you have to long press on the screen to bring up a popup menu with the Select, Select All, Paste, and Insert Drawing options. Select the Select option, drag one or both of the dots to expand the selection, and hope your old finger is stable enough not to cause the selection point to shoot upwards or downwards at warp speed. If successful, you get another popup menu this time with Cut, Copy, Paste, BIU, and Look Up options. Tap the Paste option. Wow, I could have cooked supper in that amount of time! WTH!!!!

And when you are in certain apps or visiting certain websites, the insertion point can be right below some text formatting options like Bold, Italics, etc. For example, this web forum via Safari. If the selected text is too close to the web page's formatting options, then the popup menu blocks your ability to choose those formatting option. So now you have to deselect the text and enter unwanted line breaks to move the text down a few lines, reselect and apply formatting, then remove the extra lines.

I could keep going for hours. The old saying "I didn't think this all the way through" comes to mind where it appears that Apple programmers and designers fail to think all the way through the UI. It often looks and feels like a hodge podge of steps cobbled together just to make it work.

BTW, try out the Kindle app in iOS. Want to select a passage of text? Just press the first word and drag your finger. Simple as that! Then you get a usable popup menu and quickly move on with reading. Apple should really look at how some of the app developers have made editing much easier than Apple has.

And one more thing, all the clunky editing garbage make an app like Numbers nearly impossible to use on an iPad/iPhone, at least as far as creating and editing spreadsheet. You could design the Space Shuttle in less time. Okay slight exaggeration, but it is extremely tedious using an iOS device compared to a Mac.