Clippy Beta – Solution to Copy and Paste text on iPhone
How do I copy and paste text on the iPhone / iPod Touch?
This is the most common question that I hear new iPhone users asking. But its time that iPhone bashers get a good reply. We have already have CopierCin, Sms2Mail and Pastebud. But with Clippy Beta the final punch on the iPhone with a proper Copy / Paste functionality is here.
While CopierCin allows you to copy text between two apps and Sms2Mail does similar; both these are apps that launch separately and makes the process time consuming. Pastebud only allows you to copy from Safari to mail, again not giving a full experience. However Clippy Beta delivers better.
ClippyBeta adds the Copy and Paste buttons on your keyboard. To copy text, just tap at the beginning of the text you would like to copy and drag your finger to the end, till where you would like to copy. Just press the 123 key and the icons to Copy / Paste will show up. Rest is fairly simple.
In short wherever you can select some text (and a keyboard is present), you can copy the text.
However the app won’t paste the text at all places, though we were able to paste inside a web browser – the copy/paste option did not show up while typing in Cydia.
Also while editing text, scrolling using the magnifying glass does not work anymore due to this app. The app is still in Beta but the functions provided are still very encouraging. Some more upgrades and this would be just prefect.
Works only on firmware v2.2. Installs via Cydia
Search for ‘Clippy Beta’ on cydia
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The app is great and has no bugs.
However its not an dedicated app its just an addon to the keyboard which makes the app so special!!
Also you can only copy/paste from one app to another with ease as the text copied is saved in the clipboard..
SO you can copy from one app and paste in another..
But you can copy/paste text only where there is keyboard and where you can select text to copy..
you can see in the screenshots, BPL really bugs me with stupid messages. Subscribed to DND still they suck my blood
[...] the text and from there a copy/paste sub-menu pops up. This interface sounds quite similar to Clippy from Cydia, where to activate the copy/paste menu, you hold down (with one finger) on any [...]