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Copy and paste comes to jailbroken iPhones

Although jailbroken iPhones aren’t as popular as they used to be since the introduction of the App Store by Apple, a resurge in jailbroken apps may occur due to a new application released on the Cydia package manager: Clippy. The app brings probably the most wanted functionality to the iPhone that has been unavailable since its original release: copy and paste. Although common on many other mobile phones, Apple, for some reason, decided not to include the incredibly useful and needed feature in the iPhone. Thankfully, third party developers have been working on a solution, and came up with Clippy

Copy and paste now (sort of) working on iPhone, most problems in the world gone

Although many bugs have been fixed and many features have been added to the iPhone’s OS, two key features remain missing, copy and paste. Until Apple adds in their own copy and paste method, the problem has been solved thanks to the wonders of javascript. The “app” responsible for these features isn’t really an app more »