I just had an idea for a neat thing Apple could do.
Y’know the little tabs that pop up when you select text in iOS?
It’d be cool if the device learned which actions you tend to choose in a given situation.
So, if you choose “Translate” more often than, say, “Format,” they could make that a little easier for you.
This is an idea that I just had.
@hotdogsladies Fun not fun fact: developers have no control over the placement/availability of the standard items in that list.
So if you have an app like Tot that doesn’t need “Format”, you can’t get rid of it. Or move “Translate” or “Look Up” to the beginning of the list if you have an app with content in a language you don’t understand well.
Which is dumb.
@chockenberry I’ve had success moving menu items around using the iOS 16+ textView(_:editMenuForTextIn:suggestedActions:) method:
(1) make a mutable array "actions” of suggestedActions
(2) get a reference by UIMenuElement.identifier to the relevant menu UIMenuElement in actions (format menu identifier: “com.apple.menu.format”; edit menu identifier: “com.apple.menu.standard-edit”)
(3) move the referenced UIMenuElement to a different index in actions
(4) return [UIMenu menuWithChildren:actions]
Merlin Mann
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