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title: How to Copy & Paste on mobile
date: 2021 May 05
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<div class="notice">This post isn't very good, and I'm not proud of it.</div>Recently, I've been seeing a lot of people coming up with one excuse for not linking the dupelicate topic in the suggestions forum. They say something like,<div style="background-color: #979797;color: black;padding: 3px;">I'm on mobile!!!!! &#128534;&#128557;&#128555;</div>this is not a correct argument, so I've decided to make this post to prove it.<h1>Safari/iOS</h1>the way that you copy and paste on Safari is by double taping on the text, then dragging until you've selected all the text<span style="color: #FF0000;">(the next bit works for links, not this)</span><h2>Coping links</h2>tap and hold on the link until you see:<img src="https://i.ibb.co/9cYsfcP/IMG-5938.jpg" alt="open, open in background, open in new window, download link file, add to reading list, *copy*, share" border="0" width="130" height="105"><h2>Paste</h2>going to any textbox, in the top-lefT-hand conner, you should see a little clipboard icon(as long as you aren't selecting any text), press it. tap "copy(circled in <span style="color: #FF0000;">red</span>)"<div style="background-color: #ff0004; color: #00FFFF; text-align: center;">🏷Note: I don't own an android tablet or phone, so take this with a grain of salt</div><h1>Chrome/Android</h1>press and hold until a few selection boxes come up(might work for links)<h2>pasting</h2>tap and hold int the text box, you should see "paste," now click that(boxed in <span style="color: #FF0000;">:<img src="https://u.cubeupload.com/Steve_Greatness/Screenshot2021050571.png" width="300" height="60"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-copy-and-paste-on-android?op=1">Image Source</a></span>