iOS 17 cursor placement, text input update
Was there an update to the way iOS places a cursor? I'm noticing it's much more difficult to place the cursor at an exact spot. At first, I thought there a major update and I'd just have to relearn it, but I'm realizing I have no idea how to simply place a cursor -- often it highlights a word and offers different words instead of just placing a cursor like it used to do -- then I have to slide both sides of the selected text because it can only select whole words, then I have to select a single character so I delete that character and place it back again, THEN I can finally type where the cursor needed to go.
Is this the new way to interact with the cursor, or if not, is there a way to troubleshoot?
iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 12