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wildflower's avatar

Any good tools for copy/paste function on iPhone?

Asked by wildflower (6830 points) | asked April 19th, 2008 | 10 responses | “Great Question” (1 points) | Flag as…

Have you found any utilities that allows easy copying and pasting on an iPhone? I’m an avid user of copy/paste when on my mac and this is the function I’m missing the most when using the iPhone…...anyone out there found a way to fix this?

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gimmedat's avatar

there is a copy and paste if jailbroken

wildflower's avatar

Thanks…..but mine’s not jailbroken and I don’t intend to go down that route….

Theotherkid's avatar

Http://clippy.soft-use.com/

Try this^^^

wildflower's avatar

That looks cool and just what I’m after – thanks!!

Theotherkid's avatar

you’re welcome. :-)

atr408's avatar

How do you do it if is jailbroken?

PupnTaco's avatar

We may see an onboard fix in June with iPhone 2.0 software.

sndfreQ's avatar

Word to the wise!!!: In Clippy (and other similar web apps), the method and technology that is used to transmit and receive the copy/paste for clippy uses an unsecured method for data transmission: http protocol.

The bookmarklets that are created in this web app are sending your sensitive data across an unsecured data connection, so if you are copying sensitive / personal data that data can be intercepted (think passwords, PINs, or other sensitive information) you should think twice about using this type of web app.

Here is a link to a review of another software web app that essentially does the same thing (uses the same method as far as I can tell); I had considered this tech (it is a dream come true in concept), but in practical terms, can be extremely risky to use.

‘Buyer’ beware.

wildflower's avatar

Thanks sndfreQ!......good to know and thanks for the alt. – I was struggling to get clippy to work.

wildflower's avatar

right. I tried both clippy and iCopy, but neither will work with comment boxes like the ones on here….iCopy came closer though :-/

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