Improve selecting text across page boundaries

SineNomine

Make it possible to easily select text across page boundaries on the mobile app. The Kindle App handles this well.

Unknown

Makes complete sense that this needs addressing.

Dirk Boersma

I received a tip that you can move the text up or down using two fingers, but this is a crutch. Indeed the selection should just stretch to the next page when you move your finger, as in kindle. Much easier!

bdamato1997

So, on mobile, the ability to scroll and highlight at the same time is essential. It's impossible to highlight a passage larger than what's on the screen because the text doesn't scroll as you highlight. Adding this feature would be incredibly useful!

Unknown

I used to be able to nudge the screen by scrolling with two fingers. That unfortunately stopped working a while ago, and subsequently I am now only using scroll view. It is less optimal, but quite workable.

Curtis Gordon

Please, please, please fix this.

Jacques LeDee

Great idea...

Roderick Holland

How about selecting verses and sentences by clicking a checkbox or even by naming the chapter and verse range

Unknown

Please improve the text selection and copy on the Mobile App and then paste on other App.

Sean McIntyre

Yes, yes, yes

James Clark

yes, on IOS its very challenging if not impossible. it probably can be done, but its as clunky as a car about to fall apart on a back road.

CJ Barth

This needs adressing.

Keith Cavanaugh

Create ability to select text to copy or highlite across scrolling or fixed screens. Please expedite this for next update as it is a basic and necessary function.

James Clark

apple voiceover will change the behavior of your ipad and Plus its for those with visual impairments what I will do is post  a video of my screen how this works for me, and heres some notation for you concerning text selection with voiceover, note you may have to use more than one finger to do this.    so I have found on ipad anyway that you can select text quite easily, with apple voiceover turned on its one finger at the top of your screen in portrait, double tap, hold for about 3 second and drag to the bottom, that will select  the text, it will bring up options for highliting, note taking, copying, sharing and visual copy,  if you want to select some previous text, instead of holding double tap and flick down, it'll jump back a little bit then select your text, i can not replicate this on iphone, just ipad. works quite well.     https://youtu.be/_fNoyB6AXsA

James Clark

I do have an update, under settings on my phone I was able to turn something off and now I can select text just fine. scrolling view on, swipe to highlight off, smart text selection on, automatic word lookup your choice,     

SpirtheoryOfficial

It stinks to not been able to highlight scripture that is not visible. I always have to go into my settings and change the size of the text down to the smallest possible size so that I can see the section of scripture I want to highlight and copy. It'd be so nice if I could just start the highlighting function and drag down to the point where I wanted to stop highlighting versus having to adjust my text size.

Glen K. Curry

Good idea!  I often have problems when highlighting cross pages 

Jim Dean

This is incredibly aggravating. It’s even difficult in scroll mode. 

Ricardo D

For context, I use an Android phone & tablet.

In the Logos ([Faithlife Study Bible] I assume also) mobile app & while using scrolling/flick mode, you lose your selection of text when you let go of selecting text to scroll the page. I find this problematic & annoying if I, for example, want to grab more Bible verses to Favorite, make a big clipping doc from, share it somewhere, or etc. You also can't select text & hold onto a handle moving past what is visible on the screen to add to your selection (like in some text apps or with text on a page in a mobile browser).

Another Bible app has text selection stay selected when you scroll (discovered this is the case in a notes app & probably with other apps/places too). When you scroll, the selection handles disappear temporarily till you stop scrolling & then they reappear for the ability to add or change what you have in your selection. Text selection only goes away when you tap anywhere on the screen (other than verse numbers, which makes a new selection from the verse number). Also, they have a selection menu popup tool & it disappears temporarily when you scroll but comes back when you adjust your text selection with the handles & let go of them. This functionality is awesome! I'm not sure if some of this is related to specific Android os version, but this is something your developers could implement to greatly improve this seemingly basic usability need!

Furthermore, that Bible app also allows you to continue selecting text from the handles moving upwards on the screen (albeit fast & abrupt, going too far from where you would like till you catch yourself & can move back down some).

I did recently come across "Improve selecting text across page boundaries" post for feedback, but I saw that it was made 2 years ago! I wanted this to be a new post (at least temporarily & could later be merged into that one or vise versa) to bring attention to these issues & with some details/suggestions that may have not been brought up in that or other similar feedback posts.

Thank you for reading & considering this in a near future update! God bless you all!

Ricardo D

@Ali Pope  @Phil Gons (Faithlife)  +others  I'm not sure if you guys want to merge my post here with https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/improve-selecting-text-across-page-boundaries as that one is in the "Need Your Opinion" phase. This post gives some ideas for text selection improvement. This one can be deleted if not necessary since that other one on text selection is in the Road Map (which I hope it moves in the next phase soon).

Thank you for all you do! God bless.

Rick Tuter

When a highlight continues on the next page, Logos desktop treats the two pages as two separate notes. I have to enlarge or shrink the text so I can see the desired text appear on the same page and then highlight it.

Robert Kelbe

This is especially an issue with Android, where scrolling clears your selection. I had to buy an iPhone just to make Logos more usable with selecting text, but I do miss Android!

Anderson Abreu

This has always been a problem for me and a serious flaw of Logos. Every reading app has the ability to bookmark/select between pages, but Logos hasn't had something this elementary for years.

Dan Hall

OliveTree has this right. I select a verse and one of the options in the pop-up window is a plus button to add proceeding verses to the selection.

Juergen Markus Nickel

Yes, that would be great!!! I is not very comfortable to highlight, if I cannot mark a longer passage on the go!

Juergen Markus Nickel

Yes, that would be great!!! I is not very comfortable to highlight, if I cannot mark a longer passage on the go!

Dan Hall

This VERY MUCH needs improving. Consider looking at how Olive Tree does this. When you click on a verse it selects all the verse, like Logos iOS does. BUT at that point, there is an up and down arrow on the side that if I click the down arrow it selects the following verse as well, then each time I click that down button it adds a verse to the selection. If you click the up arrow it reduces the selection by a verse. 

Robert Kelbe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1328241#Comment_1328241

@Robert Kelbe  Please fix this... I want to go back to Android, but can't until this issue is resolved...

Anderson Abreu

It's incredible how even today Logos Mobile doesn't allow you to select texts larger than what is shown on the device's screen.

Unknown

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1328258#Comment_1328258

@Anderson Abreu  I know, this is so frustrating 

Unknown

Even my weather app allows scrolling while highlighting text!