iOS 14 Update and copy/paste doesn’t work

I was having same problem but I figured it out. First you hold your finger down like you would normally do. Then you lift your finger an tap once where the blue line is. At this point the select or select all will pop up. You may have to play with it a little. I uploaded a video at YouTube. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/rCqlomp1BMk

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities VWMOMMYOF3,

We see that you're unable to copy/paste in apps after updating to iOS 14. We'd be happy to look into this with you.

You've already done some great troubleshooting steps. We'd like to ask a few questions to help to isolate this issue.

Can you tell us if this is happening with specific apps? If so, which apps? If you have multiple iOS devices, are you experiencing the same thing on all devices?

Also, restart your iPhone and test to see if the issue remains.

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We look forward to hearing back from you.

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I have been having the same problem! Everything on my phone and all apps are up-to-date. Ever since updating to iOS 14, I cannot copy and paste. This goes for any app where I’m writing text. I can’t select text, select all text, copy, or paste. When I try to do so, the only thing it lets me do is move my cursor around text but I can’t grab text. Additionally, if I tap on an already sent message or photo to copy it, I can successfully select “copy” but then when I go to paste somewhere else, the copied item is missing and it’s as if I never copied anything to begin with. I usually have to go through this process 3-4 times before my phone actually remembers that I copied an item. It is very frustrating. I hope Apple fixes this bug ASAP.

And I can get the select and select all options, but once I select the text I want, I don't get an option to copy, cut, etc. I don't get any options at all. Except that once in awhile - maybe 1 time out of 5 - I do. So I just keep selecting and re-selecting and RE-SELECTING the text I want to copy over and over, in hopes that THIS TIME the **** menu will appear. Maddening.

Also since iOS14 update. These $1k phones just get more and more unusable with each update.

I have already updated my phone to iOS 14.1 and my copy/paste feature still does not work. I have tried it on Messaging and on the Facebook app.

I have lost the copy and paste feature after upgrading software to 14.1.

I updated to 14.0.1 and I am unable to use copy/paste, select, select all....very frustrating

I’m on iOS 14.0.1 - copy paste doesn’t work - very frustrating - please could someone at Apple kindly assist!

I FOUND THE SOLUTION!

I was having an issue similar to this thread: I cannot paste my copied text from one application to another application

For me I was able to see the "copy" option... but the "paste" option would only show up after my 2nd or 3rd attempt trying to copy/paste from one app to another... and also sometimes in the same app. This was happening in native Apple apps as well as 3rd party apps.

I have an iPhone 12 Pro running the latest iOS so there's no reason I should have been having these issues. I spent 40 mins on a chat with an Apple agent who kept asking the same questions but no resolution.

So I kept searching and found THIS ARTICLE!! And that's where I finally... after 3 or 4 months... found the solution!!!

"For some users, disabling and then re-enabling the Universal Clipboard seems to fix this issue. To do so, you need to disable the Handoff feature. Go to Settings > General > Handoff > Uncheck. After this, log out of your iCloud account and restart your device. Once it reboots, login back to the iCloud. Then check if the Copy and Paste not working issue after the iOS 14 update is fixed or not."

I'm not sure if that alone solved my problem so I'll also share the other two things I did, as well...

I followed the above instructions and before restarting my phone and logging back into iCloud here's what I did:

Go to Settitngs > General > Reset

• Reset All Settings
• Reset Network Settings

Then I shut down my phone... then restarted... then logged back into iCloud... and I'm back in business. After 4 months of being incredibly frustrated, I finally have copy/paste working again properly!

I wish I had this solution 4 months ago!

Hello VWMOMMYOF3,

Thanks for the additional information. There was a new release (14.0.1) of iOS 14. Make sure you're running that version and test to see if the issue remains. If the issue persists, or you are already running iOS 14.0.1 and the issue remains, you'll want to reach out to Apple Support.

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Same here! I actually just bought an iPhone 11 last weekend in hopes it would be easier to use for my small business. I copy and paste a lot of different things from Facebook. I can’t do any of it on this phone. I’ve tried from chrome, Safari, and the Facebook app nothing will let me copy and paste. In Safari the phone will vibrate when you hold your finger down to try to get the copy and paste button to come up but that is it. Very frustrated with my new iPhone.

I have followed every advice given here and it just won't work. I have lost count of the numbers of times and different ways I have tried to copy and paste into my bank app the code sent on text msg and it just won't let me copy it. I have also tried using the keyboard... useless. What am I supposed to do now?? Just be unable to check my bank account info?? Oh, and i'm running ios 14.0.1 on my device.

You should still be able to copy and paste. It took me a while to figure it out but just go to the text you want to copy and double tap it. The options bar should pop up and the you can select what you would like to copy and the paste it where you need to.

hope this helps!