It has been broken for 7 months now. Forget the Apple Watch dev kit. Fix the basic issues first. Jeez...
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Will Apple ever fix the Copy-Paste disaster on iOS 8?
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Could you be more specific? I've noticed exactly 0 problems copying and pasting On iOS 8.
Sometimes I like to copy and paste paragraphs from articles when posting on online forums, but many times when I copy something and try to paste it, the paste animation disappears very quickly (less than a second) and it doesn't allow me to post the text that I have copied over. Sometimes it is almost a race between the animation disappearing and me hitting the paste button. I have never had this issue with any of the previous iOS versions and my work flow hasn't really changed at all.
Also in previous versions of Safari you could long press an image in an article and it would copy the URL of the image to clipboard. In iOS 8 it doesn't work at all. Long pressing does nothing. Very annoying.
I don't have any of the issues you describe on both my iPhone 6 and iPad 2, both running iOS 8.1.3. Have you tried a restore and set up as new? Maybe you have a freak bug.
I believe it's a Safari issue, seems to be fine everywhere else, i have too had this issue since 8.1 i think? Plus i have never OTA'd always done clean install no backup every time
Only ever has this problem on one install of 8.1.2, but since going to 8.1.3 and then back to 8.1.2 I've not seen it. I copy and paste a fair bit too.
Yeah, I've had isses. The copy, paste, cut shortcut popover just vanishes and won't come back, but that's just iOS now.
Even trying to select some text to copy is impossible! How are basic features so bugged?!
Yes I've just noticed this problem in 8.1.2 and now in 8.1.3.
You can report bugs to Apple here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
You can report bugs to Apple here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Same here, I haven't notice any issues like that in Safari or any other apps. I did do a clean install of iOS 8 on my iOS devices, so that might be the reason.
Experienced this myself tonight. Left some feedback FWIW.
Clean DFU restore of 8.1.3 and set up as new on an iPhone 4s. Dang copy/paste box kept disappearing. Then not selecting what I was wanting to select, or changing words. I want my iOS 6 or 7.1 back, lol.
Clean DFU restore of 8.1.3 and set up as new on an iPhone 4s. Dang copy/paste box kept disappearing. Then not selecting what I was wanting to select, or changing words. I want my iOS 6 or 7.1 back, lol.
Ok so I'm not the only one with CCP issues. Glad I'm not alone. It's really annoying. The other issue I have is when I'm editing a post or entering a multi-line paragraph in Safari, if I have to scroll up the courser gets stuck on screen and acts like its floating. Very annoying. It's been present in every build of iOS 8 I have used no matter the device. Never happened on 7 or 6... or 5 or 4 or hell OS 3 when CCP was introduced (at least not for me).
Yes. Seems random though. Just when I'm sure it won't work, it does. Not a disaster but rather annoying nonetheless. They ought to take care of it.
This is an issue that pre-dates iOS 8 and I think it has something to do with the way the pages are coded since it happens on some sites and not others.
Doesn't matter, though. Apple needs to figure out how to adapt for that because it makes their phone look bad even if it's the website's fault.
And as for the OP's specific issues, yup. All true.
Uh. Do you copy and paste ever? Just try copying and pasting any post on this forum thread in mobile view on your iPhone. It selects the whole box. It's so bugged actually on Macrumors that after trying a few times the page starts scrolling up by itself. Repeated several times so it's not a fluke.
I have an iPad3 (iOS6) that I was able to replicate this on but it took a bit to find websites that cause this.
Conversely, on my iPad Mini 2 iOS8, I can replicate this easily.
Something changed in 8 that made this much more predominate.
