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    master of the pwniverse Member Fragony's Avatar
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    Default Is it just me or is copying and pasting on an iPad hell on earth

    It is almost impossible to select a single line, you get these 4 dots but they are unruly, you never know when you put them where they should be the selected text has all kinds of ways of making it a most miserable experience. With every move it goes everywhere so now I just type sentences over to avoid frustration. Am I missing something over here it looks so easy in the tutorials but it just doesn't work. Are there any apps that allow me to copy paste texts without any trouble, trouble like feeling to throw my iPad against the wall because it's impossible to just copy/paste a sentence.

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    Hm, I don't have problems with it. In Safari it is just holding your finger on a word and then it is selected(or keep your finger on the screen until all turns blue and then move finger to whatever word you want to start with) and you just drag the blue dot/bubble to where you want to end it. How difficult can it be, heh.

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    Default Re: Is it just me or is copying and pasting on an iPad hell on earth

    I have minimal experience with iOS, but I can testify that copying and pasting in Android Gingerbread is a pain in the kiester.

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    Default Re: Is it just me or is copying and pasting on an iPad hell on earth

    Quote Originally Posted by CBR View Post
    Hm, I don't have problems with it. In Safari it is just holding your finger on a word and then it is selected(or keep your finger on the screen until all turns blue and then move finger to whatever word you want to start with) and you just drag the blue dot/bubble to where you want to end it. How difficult can it be, heh.
    Sounds simple, thing is is that it doesn't work. It's completely random what part of the text is selected. It's going everywhere. Is there a way to 'film' what you are doing, I'll show you

    Another thing, the glass showing sucks as well, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes the whole text is selected, sometimes just an alinae, sometimes just the word. It drives me crazy there is no logic whatsoever to it
    Last edited by Fragony; 06-19-2012 at 10:53.

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    Default Re: Is it just me or is copying and pasting on an iPad hell on earth

    Is it on all websites (still assuming it is Safari) or just some?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CBR View Post
    Is it on all websites (still assuming it is Safari) or just some?
    All and it's completily random, than it does this than it does that, otherwise touchpad works, no problems with gaming. It's pretty infuriating. Problem only applies to placing the vertical dots, you never know what you are going to get

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    Default Re: Is it just me or is copying and pasting on an iPad hell on earth

    You have same problem selecting text in apps like Notes?

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