Apple Announces Copy and Paste for iPhone 3.0
As widely rumored (yep, Kevin Rose was right!), Apple announced Copy and Paste today for iPhone OS 3.0, with “cut” relegated to apps that support it (?).
It works differently in different apps, this is what we can figure out:
Mail & Notes (and 3rd party?): double tap to begin. Drag small delineator icons to start and end of text string you want to copy.
Safari (and embedded browsers): Tap and hold to begin. Selects blocks of text.
Photos: Tap the action button to begin. Select multiple photos to paste into email. (Unknown if Apple will scale or compress before sending?)
Universally, it appears you can shake the iPhone to undo which while gimmicking, is also all kinds of awesome. You can also select paragraphs by holding your finger down on them, and Copy and Paste WILL pick up HTML including text formatting and links!
[Photo via Apple Insider]
March 17th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
My guess is that the different process is necessary. A double tap in Safari will zoom you in/out – that is unless Apple plans on changing some of the touch gestures in an updated Safari.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
YAY! so happy! looks very functional and easy!
so… When does 3.0 come out?…
March 17th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
The “apps that support it” for cut means…you can cut out off Notes but not out of your webpage in Safari…but neither can you cut off Safari on your desktop, can you? Thought so
March 17th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
HURAH! HURAH! HURAH!
No more will I have to email **** to myself and transcribe. It doesn’t happen a lot but it’s damned painful when it does.
iPhone gets ever so closer to actual Smartphone status!
March 17th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
So Documents To Go is …. Go ?
I would love for them to make a Mobile Pages/Keynote ! or is that asking for too much =D
March 18th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I noticed that manifying glass is rectanglar and not circular. So is that how the magnifying glass will look even for making corrections ?