Copy and paste Messages into Pages does not work, why?

When I select text in Messages (iPhone 13 Pro iOS 17.0.3 but has never worked on any version of iOS) Copy and Paste into Pages I get nothing. Why is this prohibited?

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Oct 12, 2023 10:34 AM

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Apr 23, 2024 1:16 PM in response to TH Williams

Works great if all text is sent from Notes. eg text in Messages/Pages copy to Notes, text previously pasted in Notes copied from here and pasted in Journal.

In short everything that goes into Notes can be sent and copied to other apps.

It seems like Notes has a cross platform format.

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Oct 12, 2023 2:53 PM in response to TH Williams

Only the Apple Pages for iOS product team knows the real answer and they do not participate in these public user-supported communities. Applications in iOS and macOS are coded to accept certain data types from the clipboard, but not all data, and if Pages is not written to accept what you have copied from Messages to the clipboard, then that would be as valid a reason as any.


I see picas has made it work… so it must be possible.

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