Q: IOS 8 copy paste problem + slowdown

FYI these are exactly my problems.  iPad 2, working fine, upgraded to iOS 8.0.2, then 8.1, what a disaster.  Letter to Tim Cook will be forthcoming.

iOS 8.1 did not fix these problems for me.  I updated to 8.1 as soon as it came out because 8.0.2 was so bad.  Still slow, copy and paste is broken, generally feels very unstable.

I agree that a Tim Cook email might be most effective serious escalation of this issue - it might very well be that 8.1 because of memory management issues that mess up copy/paste in older iPads (I have 2nd gen) - am I correct that we don't have any complaints from the new iPads?

I've just written to Tim Cook .. it will be most interesting to see if I receive a reply.

I urge all of you to do the same too!

My wife has a first gen iPad Mini. I have personally witnessed the effect on my iPad Air and iPhone 6 though not as often as I don't often copy/paste from Safari based apps.

You should be able to get your cut/copy/paste back up and running again just by reseting your iPad and restoring all the things you had before

That solution did not work for me.

Please read the whole thread where people have tried this only to find the problem return. I realize it is a long thread (at 10 pages by this point) but it is important we share all our discoveries so we can all work towards a work around or a fix. Pat answers like reset and restore don't help and show a lack of attention to the problem.

I Have e-mailed Tim Cook twice about this travesty , not just with copy and paste and the clipboard but also about the slowing down and gener malfunctions with iOS8

no answer from the man who cares so much about the customer service?

i Suggest EVERYONE else mails him too so he understands our displeasure

we love our iPads its the iOS that needs sorting, at least confirmation that they are working on bug fixes would be nice

FIngers crossed they are working on fixes

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I posted the following to Facebook, and thought perhaps Apple might take note of how poor I think of the downward trend of their last two operating systems for devices:

Mike, here are a number of things that begin to go really wrong after iOS six, where iOS 7 became very problematic and inefficient.

It was very fascinating to find that with iOS 7 installed, every app when popping back and forth would:

1)  auto refresh.  Really? That would take all sorts of extra time, which is exasperating.  I didn't need all that refreshing, and I was told it was a new feature that could be turned off, and turned off I did. When turned off, I discovered most disappointingly, it made no difference, hopping from one app to another, they would all auto refresh.

If posting something to Facebook in Safari, and I popped over to Youtube to grab a URL, then popped back, Facebook would refresh as would my half composed composition---it would be lost. This was new, and had not been a problem in iOS 6.  This still seems to be one of the greatest and most offensive aspects of the newer operating systems since version 6.  Why refresh every app when popping back and forth between them?  How come mine won't turn off?  Please, give me back iOS 6, where this never happened, that I recall.

2) Selecting text in an article became very problematic and hard to do, with the "select all" option in Safari having disappeared.  I would read on forums of other people having the same complaint, being frustrated that "select all" from articles now was a great problem, not simple like it had been. I have an app, Speech Magnet, which will read to me text copied from the clipboard. I would love to copy articles, then pop over to Speech Magnet, to have it read back to me as I work, ever busy with my eyes and hands doing other things. To sit and try and select the text of an article, with no "select all" option available anymore seemed insane.  Who made the choice to have that removed in browsers?

3) of course the copy and paste is the issue that came forth in IOS 8.  It seems absolutely unreal to me. I am at my wits end that there is no correction to subsequent releases to the operating system, and there is total silence from Apple from what I can find in searches of forums.

4) the interface of the keyboard is a very big disappointment, as it used to have contrast with colors, you could tell when shift was engaged with a blue shift key, now half the time you can't tell if shift is engauged or not, everything laid out in black and white looks the same.

5) Slow.  Everything now goes so slow.  All of that stupid "auto refresh" takes forever, and I can't opt out of it or turn it off, for when I do, it is as if no change has been made. 

6) Safari now brilliantly pops up a message with the jist of it, from memory, being akin to: "Something on this page didn't load right and the page will be reloaded"  Well oops, that doesn't help, then you have pages in an endless loop of error that never will load, cause they are constantly reloading because they have an error on the page.  What a joke.

There are a half dozen more problems I could speak to.   I've spoken about them before, but right now can't make a good list of them as I'm too tired and they deserve some better explanation than I feel to give right now.

The bottom line is that, my efficiency with this little mini computer called an iPhone has been deplorable  since iOS 7 and iOS 8 came along, reversing an upward trend in efficiency with 6, then in a serious slide downward since, a very serious undermining of my capacity to take in information in an efficient manner, as well as publish and share the same.

Perhaps Al Gore can be blamed in all of this? Ha!  Or maybe the Rothschild/Rockefeller complex of moneychanger power who hate those capacitated to publish against them?  Surely, I jest...or do I?   Almost, I do joke, but given the supposed Telecommunications Act of 1996,  almost mandating built-in backdoor access of government to these devices and the subsequent onslaught of government surveillance with vast criminality of government such as the FBI's "Project Magic Lantern," who is to know what's going on behind the scenes?  (Project Magic Lantern was implemented circa, or at least first reported on, in 2003, but then disappeared from news, and it was the FBI's assertion that under the Patriot Act they could not inject any computer they wanted with a virus or a trojan keylogging every stroke ever made, recording it all, none of this with judicial oversight or a warrant).

I had some college professors who believed the government was integrating surveillance at the chip level of computers and computing, all subversive, tyrannical and under the radar of the populace knowing anything about it.  Perhaps we need an Edward Snowden of the computer chip manufacturing industry to chime in and become the newest and latest enemy of the state. 

I, along with some others, remember when headline news began to threaten that Steve Jobs was to be tried by the SEC for insider trading. When I first saw that news, I said to myself "blackmail, they are going to compromise his company and its products with blackmail."

I don't have proof, but I believe Steve Jobs was blackmailed, made to sell out to the feds demands, and I don't know what intricacy is behind it all but there is a compromise that took place. Al Gore being put on the Board of Directors certainly doesn't help matters of trust in that regard, as he's another Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) lackey, out to implement the agenda of the elite bankers.  Apple is going down hill at least in my user experience, and I lament the awful problems cited here since iOS 7, which has me disliking this company and those designing its software.  At minimum, let me go back to iOS 6 where I could obtain efficiency once again and optimal speed for my device.  I feel extorted and used, almost expected to run out and buy new hardware since the software releases screwed up my existing hardware.  Naw, I am not a fan of that kind of marketing, and loyalty is certainly not something Apple computer is showing me with these glitches and problems, and I have little sentiment of loyalty to this brand given these trends.

iPhone 4S, iOS 8.1

Same problem remain:

1) copy-paste not working

2) much slower operation and loading and switching between the apps.

3) unstable due to app crashes

All in all, the experienced usability of my iPhone 4S as a functional working and entertainment tool has degraded substantially to almost 0, specially compared to the usability experience the phone had before the iOS 7. It is a day and night difference in user experience between the iOS 6 and iOS 8.

Feel very disappointed with Apple. I hope Apple's tech department will address and resolve the remaining unresolved technical issues very soon.

I would hate to switch to another brand, but I need a working reliable device.

I would happily "down"-grade back to iOS 6, to get my iPhone 4S function properly again.

Is "jailbrake" an option here? Oh well...

Apple is really behaving badly on updates and bugs.... They don't acknowledge bugs.. as a strategy... Sometimes they solve them, some times not.... but they almost never acknowledge them. I bet soon we'll have a new version of iPhone plus (like iPhone plus Square or 2 or something) that doesn't bend in the pocket.. but they'll not even say it.. They'll say that it has a better camera or so.. but the real reason why it's out it will be the bending thing....

I have this CUT N PASTE problem (iPhone 4S, iOS 8.1 installed).

I also have some WIFI (occasional broken concession, low speed) and SLEEP (freeze on wakeup) problems on my MacMini after upgrading to Yosemite. Both are well known problems in forums (this and others... you can look for yourself !) and Apple is not doing anything about them .. not even acknowledging them.

OK THIS IS NOT JUST A SAFARI ISSUE: THE CLIPBOARD IS BROKEN ALL OVER iOS. Just copied and  pasted my Apple ID password in the App Store and some text previously copied got pasted instead. I THINK ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!! Apple, FIX THAT NOW !!!! Just send an update immediately, the device becomes hardly usable you get that?

arrow7 wrote:

 

FIX THAT NOW !!!! Just send an update immediately, the device becomes hardly usable you get that?

AND ... just "what" exactly do you expect the users on this "users helping other users" forum to do about that? ... LOL ...