Make checkbox "hitbox" larger

[jively 4]

I love Evernote and use notes with lots of checkboxes for my weekly shopping list. However, there is a huge annoyance on iOS.

If I have an item checked, and I found it in the supermarket and am ready to turn it off, if my fat finger is not exactly on the tiny checkbox hitbox, Evernote thinks I want to change the text and brings up the typewriter. This is really annoying, and I have to do several swipe motions to try to uncheck it again and remove the typewriter so I can see the rest of my shopping list. See image.

Could you please assume, when someone touches very close to a checkbox that the user wants to toggle the checkbox, and not start typing?

 

Related annoyance here (Make checkboxes easier to create, and stop turning them into something with strikethrough text.

 

[PinkElephant 8,846]

Personally I doubt this would be useful: Increasing the size of a text element will lead to even larger distances between lines of text. And we already have a discussion that it's too large.

Actually I rarely miss a box if I want to hit that box.

[jively 4]

On my iPhone screen, the checkbox has a length of under 3 millimeters. My index finger is about 15 millimeters across.

[PinkElephant 8,846]

The phone screen works with enough sensitivity to allow precise input even if the input "device" is larger than the area targeted.

A character of text is even smaller than a checkbox, but you can still place a cursor right in the middle between two of them.