If I copy a phone number then paste it, how can I edit the pasted number?
For example, my phone has an Irish SIM. If I am in the UK and copy a UK phone number from an email signature it will typically be in local format i.e. 0208 456 7890. I need to dial 00 44 208 456 7890. I cannot find a way to delete the zero prefix and add the country code.
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
thanks AnaMusic, I cannot find any reference to editing a pasted number in the phone keypad screen. Can you point me to the page please?
I should add that I want to edit the number in the phone keypad screen. I know it can be done by copying and creating a new contact, or a note then editing the note/ contact.
Hi Marc, I just upgraded to iOS 6 and hoped to get this feature but it's still not available.
I also need to edit pasted numbers in the keypad screen very often, mostly to put a + sign in front of a number not in a dialable format coming out of an email.....
Does any body know why this simple but precious function is still missing?
iPhone 4S, iOS 6
This one kills me as well - editing phone numbers in the keypad/dialer is a pretty basic function, I could never fathom why it didn't exist. We need to be able to place a cursor, and copy/paste part-numbers! I'm constantly trying to paste just an area code, or an extension, or insert the country code, and I should not need to create a new number in the contact directory to do it!
Currently I do the copy/paste editing in Notes, and then paste the corrected number into the dialer - pointless and inefficient, and contrary to the Apple philosophy of making the user experience easy and seamless...
I have read of this in the past, and also responded to a user not to long back about it. We could find no way of doing it. Not sure if any of you have done this before, but you can provide feedback to Apple that you would like to see this as a function at www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Thank you for opening this thread. I also used the feedback link provided to add another request to Apple.
As an international traveler, I regularly need to edit phone numbers in my contact database to dial to and from countries with differing dial protocols. The inability to edit numbers within the dial field of the phone app seems to be a frustrating feature unique to the iphone. Wouldn't this take someone at apple about 20 minutes to code a fix?
How can I copy, paste and edit a phone number?
