iPhone Copy and Paste

Author: BigBoss  //  Category: News

Major news (even if it’s a day or so old), but the iPhone has 2 copy and paste apps now: Clippy and Clipboard. I have updated the reasons to jailbreak link adding this information. Check out a brief example of how it works using screenshots of me pasting from notes to safari using Clippy:

Here is the text, then mark the text.

Copy the marked text, then paste the text, in this case, I pasted into safari.

You can install Clippy from Cydia.

Clipboard shoudl be in Cydia in a day or two. See more information about it here.


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84 Responses to “iPhone Copy and Paste”

  1. duluen Says:

    finally!!!

  2. mario Says:

    when i press copy nothing shows in the right field and the write pad disappears, any help

  3. Anonymous Says:

    can I paste WPA keys?

  4. Haze Says:

    Hmmm what repo is this one? I don’t see it listed in Cydia. I did a search and looked through all packages manually.

  5. jose Says:

    amazing , thanks guys your amazing , works fine takes time to getting use to , but again amazing.

  6. blatz Says:

    Great it works now really better than befor.

    LOVE IT

  7. jose Says:

    just wondering which of both apps are working better, or if there is any feedback on the preference between Clippt or Clipboard.

  8. duluen Says:

    ive been playing with both. Although clipboard dose allow a broader pallet from which to copy from, clippt is easier and more intuitive to use

  9. Rohit Kapur Says:

    The only complaint I have with Clippy is that it makes it impossible to scroll through text by magnifying, as it automatically selects the text for copying/deleting. I wish it started selecting text after you press Copy once. I know it sounds more cumbersome, but really, I’d like to be able to scroll through incorrectly spelled words without accidentally removing other text in the process.

    That said, this is a brilliant add-on. :D I love it!

  10. Rohit Kapur Says:

    Also, I JUST checked Cydia for updates, and Clippy *did* get updated. I’m testing it, and now it’s not working at all. Heh. Gave an error when I copied a bit of new text, and now it’s not copying or pasting anything. And it’s not even selecting text anymore. I’ll reboot my phone in a bit and test again.

  11. mastuul Says:

    http://cydia.ispazio.net/

  12. Rohit Kapur Says:

    Bwahahaha!Excellent! They’ve updated Clippy with the exact request I made above. Now save for Safari web-page integration, it’s perfect! :D

  13. Steven Says:

    You can use the Clipboard bookmarklet (follow the link in the article) with the Clippy app – works the same! Now you can copy-n-paste in Safari too!.

    This is THE reason to jailbreak, hands down. Come on Apple, my list of reasons is getting LONGER, not SHORTER.

  14. BigBoss Says:

    It’s in ispazio’s community source. It’s a default source.

  15. BigBoss Says:

    You can still scroll just tap rather than drag to your position.

  16. jose Says:

    Once again, if it wasn’t for guys like BigBoss and Dev-team to mention a few .
    The iphone would just be a pretty phone,with no substance . Keep up the great work.

  17. mike Says:

    i love this! and it dovetails nicely with the rest of the iPhone interface.
    my only issue: i don’t like having the copy/paste menu showing up _every time_ i hit the 123 button. hard to type numbers or other special characters in the sms app, y’know? maybe have it pop up after holding the 123 button down for a couple seconds? kinda like the .net/.edu/.org/.com popup when you hold the . key down? i know absolutely nothing about iphone development, so i don’t have any idea how attainable that is…

  18. ksiphone Says:

    you can tap in the field that displays the copied text and it will hide the c/p buttons.

  19. ksiphone Says:

    bigboss… is there any way to implement the ability to switch to another open/backgrounded app from within the processes widget instead of merely killing apps?

    with the newly added ability to c/p, it would be nicer to access apps faster since they are already running in the background anyway.

  20. Chip Says:

    I love this! but it slows down my phone too much :(

  21. blatz Says:

    is possible to work with both? clippy and clipboard?

  22. Rey Says:

    Im using both at the same time right now. I really like hClipboard better than Clippy though. Its really handy to be able to store text and have it handy all the time. The bookmarklet also works better than Pastebud cuz it can be done in one step and combined with Clipboard. Just follow the instructions on the wiki page as was posted: http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/CopyingTextFromSafari

  23. Haze Says:

    I got it!! It was weird, I had the source added but it wouldnt update. I had to remove the source and readd it.

  24. Rohit Kapur Says:

    Indeed, one could have done that, but you don’t always hit the correct position in the first go, and if you wanted, say, the alphabet next to the one that got magnified by default, then you scroll. Otherwise, you keep trying until you tap the right one in first go. Overly complicated.

  25. Anonymous Says:

    update of clippy allows you to double tap in an editable text field to turn off the copy and paste feature. this allows you to drag the magnifying glass to where you need it. double tap again and c/p is turned back on.

  26. mk321024 Says:

    like this its really nice and useful and should have been done a long time ago …

  27. crizzz Says:

    hi,

    how about a switch in boss prefs? would this be ppossible?

  28. ingo Says:

    doesn’t work at all….no bubble to mark the text appears….2 times restart the springboard and complett reboot – nothing helps

  29. Max Says:

    I tried downloading hClipboard today and it told me I’m missing something and Cydia couldn’t automatically find and download it. Does hClipboard require fw 2.2 by any chance?

  30. Max Says:

    Here’s a screen of the error: http://i40.tinypic.com/29mmyyq.jpg

  31. Rey Says:

    It most likely does but I’m not 100% sure

  32. Rey Says:

    Just checked the wiki page and it says:
    “ℏClipboard is a global copy and paste solution for the iPhoneOS 2.2 based on iKeyEx.”

    So it looks like it requires 2.2. It’s worth upgrading for if you ask me.

  33. Max Says:

    Hmm, yeah. Thanks.

  34. Bill Says:

    This App ROCKS!!! Just what I needed!! Now I can copy and paste same text/email to all my girlfriends and not get confused with what I said to them or get CAUGHT IN A LIE!! WOOT WOOT WOOT!!!

  35. sugen Says:

    I had installed via Cydia.Even restart my iphone3G.I did not get the extra “copy & paste” button like what shown in the screen shoot. Pls help.. How to use this?

  36. Keloan Says:

    Todo copy its not how its described [at least not on mine]

    you press and hold [like moving the cursor], and it will get highlighted, then press copy, and it will apper in the box

  37. jose Says:

    open anything that you can see your key pad , then hit the number key(.?123) you should see the copy-past pop up, then have fun.

  38. Andy Says:

    Would it be possible to add this sort of copy/paste clipboard to sbsettings rather then the keyboard? That way we could use it for any text, not just editable text.

  39. tys Says:

    Simply Awesome! Clippy handles at least 95% of what I need C&P for and does it elegantly and intuitively.
    Great work!!

  40. tys Says:

    Has anyone (Steven?) actually gotten the Safari Bookmarklet for Clipboard to work with Clippy?
    I installed it and can get web text to come up in an editable box, but can’t actually highlight any of it.
    Any ideas?

  41. igor Says:

    good

  42. tys Says:

    Good idea for the 123 button, mike. Along those lines, what if you held down the “C” key for a moment and the copy button pops up. Same with “P” for the paste button?
    I also don’t know how this stuff really works, just tossing out ideas!

  43. idipps Says:

    how do i delete urls from clipboard

  44. sugen Says:

    Follow your advice.. But still does not appear anything on key pad… This is what i did
    1.Open notes.
    2.Press number key .?123.. Still the copy & paste button does not appear..

  45. awayze Says:

    Yeh, there’s an updating fault in Cydia, you have to keep pushing refresh manually a few times, if Cydia doesn’t keep on crashing that is, to update it or delete and readd the source.

  46. awayze Says:

    Which is better hClipboard or Clippy?? I can’t seem to get hClipboard to work, my keyboard looks the same.

  47. brandon Says:

    I personally love hClipboard more because it looks more “embedded” into the phone like it came that way.

    You have to enable the international keyboard.

    Go to Settings > General > Keyboards > International > turn on hClipboard in the international keyboard list and a globe button will appear on your keyboard next to the “123″.

    About CopyingTextFromSafari and using it with hClipboard or Clippy, just add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks. Click on a part of the page, and that paragraph/sentence will turn into an edited part which brings up the keyboard, and you can copy from there.

  48. tys Says:

    brandon,
    I like Clippy a little better since it’s simpler and more intuitive to me, but I can’t get CopyingTextFromSafari to work with it. I works exactly as you say up to a point: the paragraph turns into an edited part, the keyboard comes up, but for some reason I can’t highlight anything.
    Have you successfully copied safari text using Clippy? What could I be missing?

    regards,
    tys

  49. Filo01 Says:

    I can’t find hClipboard in cydia weird, i can only see Clippy Beta(iSpazio) repo.

  50. tys Says:

    OK, I still haven’t gotten the hClipboard bookmarklet to work with Clippy, but I did find another solution: iCopy. Do a google search for it. It’s another bookmarklet. The trick is to use the “email text” button and then copy the text from the draft email. Not as elegant as the Clipboard bookmarklet, but at least it works.

  51. Liton Says:

    Is there any way to copy the text from safari. This copy pest function will be fully effective if this can be able.

  52. Rey Says:

    You don’t highlight it with hClipboard. You click the globe first, then the first button on the top right of the keyboard to copy the whole thing. Or you can put the cursor at the start point, click the second button, put the cursor at the end point of your selection, then press the second button again to copy it.
    Instructions:
    code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/Using_hClipboard

  53. Rey Says:

    Swipe across the item you want to delete.

  54. Rey Says:

    This was my major gripe with Clippy: you can’t copy text fields within Safari webpages. Try typing something in a reply box below and copying it with Clippy. You can’t and that ticked me off enough to switch and I haven’t looked back.

    hClipboard CAN copy from text fields within safari webpages so if you’re using the bookmarklet, use hClipboard. You click the globe first, then the first button on the top right of the keyboard to copy the whole thing. Or you can put the cursor at the start point, click the second button, put the cursor at the end point of your selection, then press the second button again to copy it.
    Instructions:
    http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/CopyingTextFromSafari

    It’s great that it saves all your copied text to a list or access any other time. It’s a more full solution.

  55. Rey Says:

    hClipboard will do it.

    http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/CopyingTextFromSafari

  56. brandon Says:

    tys,

    I had Clippy for a while, but then got hClipboard to test it out. I haven’t tried the CopyingTextFromSafari with Clippy personally; but I have been able to copy text in Safari using hClipboard.

    I’ve also tried pasting using Clippy in Safari (like entering username/password), and it didn’t work. It worked with hClipboard, however.

    Hope that helps!

  57. tys Says:

    Hopefully a future Clippy update will allow that bookmarklet to work.
    See my comment below for another solution: iCopy.
    Unlike your experience, I AM able to paste text into Safari using Clippy. Maybe that was fixed in one of the updates?

  58. tys Says:

    Here’s the link for iCopy, which I’ve successfully used to copy text from Safari using Clippy.

    http://www.biocow.com/iCopy/install.php

  59. test Says:

    ****!!!! hclipboard is not working anymore.

    it is installed but dissapeared from the iphone since the hclipboard 0.2 update from yesterday. even maybe also the cydia update from today got something to do with it because re-installing shows at the end a mistake and problem !!!!****

    sucks!

  60. Anonymous Says:

    If you have IntelliScreen installed, please also enable PrefHooker-iKeyEx and SBHooker-iKeyEx in the Performance options.

  61. Anonymous Says:

    in other case hclipboard is not working…

  62. brianmm Says:

    any chance there will be an app to enable A2DP stereo Bluetooth?

  63. Rey Says:

    Maybe you have to re-enable the hKeyboard in iPhone settings.

  64. Rey Says:

    Clippy had a nice update today. It can now copy text within Safari text fields. It also now saves all your recent copies to a ‘stack’ or clipboard. One downside I still notice is that it can’t select specific parts of text in Safari. If you copy a text field, it will copy the whole field.
    It’s a great update nevertheless and I’m now using both hClipboard for specific text copying and Clippy for quick copy/pasting.

  65. Johnny Says:

    How do you use the new update? I can’t get the text to select to copy? :(

  66. Awayze Says:

    Double tap but on the second tap don’t lift your finger of the screen and then just select.
    Works for me like that

  67. memawz Says:

    sexy and nead help

  68. Sergeant Spam Says:

    Clippy is working GREAT for me, and the stack is awesome.

    Copy / paste works with my iTunes password. I could copy the bullets / symbols, and the stack showed my password. Was also able to paste it in the field.

    Haven’t tried Safari passwords yet.

  69. ghettogodzilla Says:

    i instaled through cydia and saw no copy/past option anywhere, no icon or setting that i noticed either so what do i have to do to get this to appear/work? i also reinstalled it nd rebooted between each attempt

  70. ghettogodzilla Says:

    ah i figured it out lol *ima idiot* you have to hit the # key

  71. BigBoss Says:

    Good :)

  72. sobrazz Says:

    i couldn’t download clippy from cydia. please help.

    I have downloaded 2.2.1 ver.

  73. Trace08 Says:

    it’s only $9 right now…limited time offer!!

  74. Shane Says:

    Another copy & paste program (non-system wide) from the AppStore is MagicPad. It’s been out for a few days now.

    However the creator of MagicPad, Proximi, is working on a “greater” project of implementing the cut, copy & paste feature system/UI’wide. You can view an 11 minute video of their assessment of the issue, their solution(s) (press & hold, text formatting pallet), and other info at http://magicpad.proximi.com/video.php. I wonder if Phil Larson (lead developer at Proximi) knows what jailbreaking is? Their concept is great, and and seems like it could be more easily implemented via a Cydia app.

  75. Shane Says:

    It’s hosted on on a repo that is temporarily down at the moment.

  76. ktg Says:

    testing clippy now in notes. how do I copy just one line of text and not the whole page of text? whenever I try to highlight a section of text, nothing shows as highlighted and when I hit copy then paste, the whole page of text gets copied and pasted. any help?

  77. Jimbo Says:

    the new version is great… hope to find out how to select just individual text instead of the whole paragraph or sentence….??? any clues?

  78. Jme Says:

    Oh my f*@%ing god
    I copied a long paragraph from my notes
    Then i deleted the note
    Then when I went to paste it in an SMS
    I got this error MSG
    “clippy beta expired”

    How do I get it to work again?
    I tried reinstalling!

    What do I do now?

  79. Jme Says:

    ITS BEEN UPDATED ON THE REPO
    thanks bigboss

  80. Aztec King Says:

    The new update for clippy 0.95-4 seems to be a little buggy; especially when trying to paste from the stack using Safari.
    Otherwise I love this app!
    thanks BigBoss!

  81. Vishal Says:

    I loaded 0.94 of Clippy on my 3G 16GB iPhone. When I try to copy/paste it throws up this msg ‘Clippy Beta has expired.
    Please upgrade’.

    I reinstalled but problem persist. Any resolution?

  82. Aztec King Says:

    to all the Clippy users…ensure that you have updated Spazio repository…and then Clippy update 0.95-4 will automatically become an upgradable option.

    The unforunate thing is the update for Clippy (although it no longer says “expired”) is really buggy. Meaning it crashes in Safari when trying to paste from the stack. From the other blogs/forums, it seems as though this is a problem in the update.

    I love clippy…please fix soon!

  83. joseph Says:

    hey how would you jailbreak a 2g ipod touch i have been wondering is it possible

  84. Anonymous Says:

    sama

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