I had to restore my iPad Pro from backup recently. Since then I have noticed some odd things. The copy, paste, and other formatting icons that are normally at the bottom of a page are gone. I have looked everywhere in Settings to see if a switch had somehow got turned off but I don’t see anything related to these icons. Ant assistance will be greatly appreciated.
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iPad Pro, iPadOS 18
WilliamL wrote:
Well, as a “for instance” if you open a Safari page and tap in the url field, the keyboard pops up from the bottom. Right above that used to be a “tool bar” that had, on the left-hand side at least two icons, one representing Copy (2 Pages overlapping) and Paste (a single page that darkened if there was information in the Clipboard.)
The icon with two-overlapping squares that you see in Safari not a "copy" icon. When used, this icon will show a page of thumbnail images - one for each open Safari Tab. Tapping a thumbnail will simply open that specific tab in your browser window.
Copy and paste functions are typically accessed using an Action Menu. Simply touch-and-hold to open the associated Action Menu, then select the required function from the menu. You should note an Action Menu is contextual - and will only show relevant actions.
In other instances, you'll first need to highlight a passage of text before you'll see appropriate functions. By example, if highlight this passage of text, you'll see a bar that shows appropriate actions:
WilliamL wrote:
Well, as a “for instance” if you open a Safari page and tap in the url field, the keyboard pops up from the bottom. Right above that used to be a “tool bar” that had, on the left-hand side at least two icons, one representing Copy (2 Pages overlapping) and Paste (a single page that darkened if there was information in the Clipboard.)
The icon with two-overlapping squares that you see in Safari not a "copy" icon. When used, this icon will show a page of thumbnail images - one for each open Safari Tab. Tapping a thumbnail will simply open that specific tab in your browser window.
Copy and paste functions are typically accessed using an Action Menu. Simply touch-and-hold to open the associated Action Menu, then select the required function from the menu. You should note an Action Menu is contextual - and will only show relevant actions.
In other instances, you'll first need to highlight a passage of text before you'll see appropriate functions. By example, if highlight this passage of text, you'll see a bar that shows appropriate actions:
on the bottom of a page in what app?
for me it's always been that say in an app like notes I get copy paste as context dialog options if I tab somewhere in the app
so I think you may wish to be more specific and maybe provide a step by step guide as to what you do and what result you get, and what result you expected / wanted and in what way those to differ
screenshot and video clips can make it more clear to us mere mortals..
Well, as a “for instance” if you open a Safari page and tap in the url field, the keyboard pops up from the bottom. Right above that used to be a “tool bar” that had, on the left-hand side at least two icons, one representing Copy (2 Pages overlapping) and Paste (a single page that darkened if there was information in the Clipboard.)
In what apps are these features missing? Where are you expecting to see them but do not? Can you please provide a screen shot?
Somehow the icons that I have been missing have decided to reappear. So “all’s well that ends well.”
Missing Copy, Paste and Formatting icons on my iPad Pro
