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aloper

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Nov 23, 2015
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iPad Air v3 and pen...just updated to iPad OS 13 and it seems I’ve lost the ability to long press with the pen, to paste into the URL bar.

As an example I could select some text on a page, copy it then go to the URL bar, tap into it, and long press with the pen and then get the option to paste. Which I would do and then start a search. Now after updating I can still copy, go to the URL bar, but if I press and hold, no option to paste. I can do it using a finger, but not the pen. Now it’s sort of clumsy to switch back and forth...
 
iPad Air v3 and pen...just updated to iPad OS 13 and it seems I’ve lost the ability to long press with the pen, to paste into the URL bar.

As an example I could select some text on a page, copy it then go to the URL bar, tap into it, and long press with the pen and then get the option to paste. Which I would do and then start a search. Now after updating I can still copy, go to the URL bar, but if I press and hold, no option to paste. I can do it using a finger, but not the pen. Now it’s sort of clumsy to switch back and forth...

Does drag and drop still work?

This would be even quicker and avoid the need to switch back and forth between pencil and touch.
Just highlight the text you want then drag and drop it onto the URL bar. It also works with links. I’m not on iPadOS 13 but this works on previous iOS with Apple Pencil.
 
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Does drag and drop still work?

This would be even quicker and avoid the need to switch back and forth between pencil and touch.
Just highlight the text you want then drag and drop it onto the URL bar. It also works with links. I’m not on iPadOS 13 but this works on previous iOS with Apple Pencil.

That doesn’t seem to work or I’m doing it wrong...if I highlight text with the pencil, I get the options to copy, etc. and can’t drag it. Plus, if that did, that would be sort of awkward on say a longer page, because you would have to drag from the bottom to the top, to the URL bar to drop. Before, I could select text with the pencil, copy, go to the URL bar, press and hold, then paste and go...
 
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