Pixel5 and bilingual user -> space bar is hacked by a language change option on long press (can;t deactivate this feature:( ), although there is ALSO a dedicated (optional) key for that that I have activated :(

This is also true for iOS. It used to be hold any key to move cursor, then they got rid of that functionality. I found out last week you can hold space bar! It's back!!!

AFAIK it was Force Touch on any key, and they changed it to long touch on the space bar when they got rid of Force Touch.

Thanks. Doesn't work on my phone. I'll check it out in product forum.

iirc this is a google keyboard feature specifically; it was added sometime after the pixel 3 released, I think?

The keyboard I have is Microsoft SwiftKey, on a Huawei P30, so could be multiple different ways of getting it.

oh yeah swiftkey did clone the feature more recently!