IOS 12 copy paste problem

I stopped by an Apple store and had a smart young associate help produce a very concise trouble ticket that then was send in on the store’s behalf. Hopefully that will get some coder’s attention without their having to guess how to replicate the problem.

Not a chance. Go to any website that uses Disqus as their comment engine. Touch any word as you always could. Then try dragging either blue dot handle to expand out to the corner of the text you want to copy. It immediately jumps back to one letter and stops. Other sites like typepad will sorta work, but the cursor try’s to race off the edges of the column and grab stuff in the sidebar. Totally lame.

This is still going on months later, it’s absurd! You’d think a simple copy/paste function would work, it used to. What can they have possibly done to change this? I can’t even leave my iPad for ten minutes and come back and paste within safari, from a copy made in safari!

Do us all a favour Apple and get this sorted please!

Just bought a new iPad and it has this (or a closely related) problem. I have a piece of text I use a lot and on iOS 10 I could copy it once and it would stay in the clipboard until I replaced it, for weeks if I didn't copy anything new. Now it stays on the clipboard a few minutes at most. Driving me nuts.

Same problem for me on new iPad. And I can’t select what I want , it goes to one letter. And having even problems to get the cursor in or between the words ...

When I touch in a word to get the cursor, it doesn’t work at all or it works but when I finish, the word gets selected in light red and similar words are suggested. Then difficult to get cursor after the last word ... Hope there comes a solution quick.

I have been having copy/paste issues in IMessage since the iOS 12 updated, not only that the clipboard isn’t working right, I will have a link saved and then go to another app to paste and it’s gone, iMessage is one of the reasons I like iPhone so much, I’m up for upgrading next month, I hope they fix it, I don’t know I have an Android phone for my business line, but I it’s not as secure, I have fixed many issues on my own, I can customize it just as I like, I can easily hack OS on androids, which you learn on a video online, so Apple just fix the **** issue, at least release the changes you made to iMessage you did not list on updates, I hope everyone will soon have this issue fixed, I do have faith in apple, don’t let us down!

I’ve had the exact same issue and it started when I had my iPhone 7. It was fine for a while but then. Sometime after I got it the exact same situation as you describe started. Apple gave me a rolacement phone..... and the same issue happened so I thought maybe it was malware in my back up. I boitlght anew XR recently and started it as a new phone. Problem still exists. 🤷‍♂️ I’m perplexed by this

Same, defect 12.1 worsens every day: cannot copy-paste anything on iPad or iPhone for hours at a time. Nothing fixes it, not restart, screen cleaning, nor shutdown for various intervals. Calls to Apple tech get only denials of the failed copy-paste function and headache-inducing runarounds with ZERO explanation or apology much less valid technical support and SOLUTION. Disgusting, especially bad on worsening Facebook pages.

Same here, i create events on Facebook every week, and i can’t copy text from last events i made, it’s annoying i have to do it on my pc. And this has happen before in some apps or websites. I’m using xs max btw. This should be fixed because it would save time and it’s just annoying have to switch to pc to copy long texts

when I try to cut and paste a text message, I get some stupid special characters. A heart, thumbs up, stupid stuff like that. Why can I not cut and paste. This is a business phone. I'm not some high schooler.

How do you turn off these special characters when trying to cut and past text messages. I do NOT want to EVER see them. EVER, get it, EVER. I want cut and paste every time. EVERY TIME. I don't get it to work any time. Always STUPID heart and thumbs up on my business phone. I'm not in high school. I'm 63 years old. This is just stupid.

It's not a UNBELIEVABLE I CAN'T WORK WHEN THIS HAPPENS kinda problem I'm having but it is truly an annoyance, I copy a link or password to access a site for a research project at school and then my phone won't paste, maybe it will do it the first time to access the site but trying it twice? in succession??? it never works. Like yesterday I had timestamps for a youtube video copied, I don't want to say it was truly tasking to watch a one hour long video to find certain points for time-stamping but when you check in the morning to see that what you thought you posted didn't actually post then remember that that was the last thing you copied was the time stamps you get excited,, but NO! Your phone has the gosh darn audacity to not have the thing still copied????

Also it seems to be that I'll paste it once and the t won't work, I'll copy it and then it won't paste, or I'll copy it, paste it however many times I want and then check back a couple hours later and see that whatever I had on my clipboard is now gone.

I am neither able to drag and copy text nor move cursor by one tap, its seeming like touch is going insensitive for that fraction of time. And when am tapping & holding at a point, its magnifying text as usual but as soon as i start dragging my finger to select a complete sentence, its going insensitive.

Note: Its working while i was typing this message ! But in mails’ body and while searching on google etc. etc., the problem persists.

My guest is that Apple wants to promo its own auto-copy two step verification code when using Safari.

It is a cool feature but not cool enough to push you to change from Chrome to Safari , so they are trying to make even harder to use chrome by not letting you copy the code in order to make that auto-copy even more attractive. If Apple idea of innovation is to make it harder to use competitors products (exp. GOOGLE Map VS PLAN ) to promote their own, they will eventually loose marketshare ....