#9

Update, this seems to be a sporadic problem. It occurs once in a while, not all of the time.

#10

I can reproduce this… sometimes. It was happening to a vault of mine, and when I exited the vault and re-entered it, the problem went away. Something to investigate!

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#11

Platform

[x] iOS
[ ] Android

Obsidian Mobile version: v1.0.4

  • copy content (text) from browser
  • open file in obsidian app
  • click the cursor
  • expecting menu to show up for paste content
  • but the menu does not show up.
  • however, double click which selects content in the obsidian file, triggers the menu for paste. But this will overwrite the selected content.
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#12

Can’t reproduce on version 1.0.4.

I am running the iOS 15 public beta, so maybe this is a iOS bug not an Obsidian one.

#13

There’s some inconsistency for when the single-tap edit bar will show in Obsidian. It’s very hard to reproduce.

If you can’t get it to show, you can just use the other OS-level options:

  • three-finger pinch-out to paste
  • three-finger tap to bring up the global edit bar
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#14

Happens to me as well

#15

I’ve found a mostly consistent way to reproduce this. When viewing a document that is more than one screen long, scroll to bottom and attempt to paste.

  1. Scroll to bottom
  2. Move cursor to last empty line in document
  3. Tap to right of the cursor

The desired behavior is that tapping the cursor should bring up the iOS context popover that displays the paste command. The actual behavior is that nothing happens.

I understand that there are other options for pasting on iOS but none of them can easily be done one handed. The preferred interaction would allow pasting text using just a thumb on the screen.

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#16

Interesting. I wonder if there’s something about the zone beyond the last line that causes iOS to not recognize it as a text field…

#17

I didn’t do extensive testing but I perform this action enough that it is extremely annoying. My report is mostly what I would do when appending clipboard to a note. Unfortunately the Templater function to insert clipboard does not work with iOS or I would use that as a keyboard button.

#18

It’s understandably frustrating.

In the meantime, maybe a shortcut would work? Appending the contents of the clipboard to a designated file and then opening that file should be pretty easy.

#19

it gets worse for me.
No matter what time，which file…
The same issue happens to me ALWAYS.

Hope it can be fixed soon.

ios
v1.0.4

#20

Have you used the pinching gesture? I find it more reliable across the entire OS.

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#21

Already tried three pinching gesture.
it works.

Now just try geting used to it.
Nice.Thx.

Though，still hope bug could be fixed.

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#22

iPhone12pro, iOS 15.0.1, Obsidian 1.0.4

I ran into this today and thought I was going mad.

Copied a URL from Safari. Opened a note in Obsidian. Long press where I want to insert the URL and the “Select/Select All/Paste/…” bar didn’t show up.
Double tap. Nothing.
Double tap again. Nothing.
Double tap again and ~2.5 lines of text above when I am and want to paste is hi-lighted.

What is even going on here? Never seen this before on iOS. Will make a video next time.

@ryanjamurphy Thanks for the three finger pinch and tap tips. Didn’t know (or forgot) about them.

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#23

For what it’s worth, I still encounter this bug occasionally still. I’ll try the pinching trick, but my work-around has been to add a word onto an existing line, and the tap to paste and the text I paste overwrites the word I just added. A bit of a pain!

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#24

I’m able to consistently reproduce this by trying to paste into an empty row of a numbered list. The use case is trying to cut a bullet and move it elsewhere. After copying, when putting my cursor on the empty list row, the iOS copy paste menu fails to render. The three finger tap is a temporary work around.

#25

Still happens on 1.0.5. Incredibly frustrating.

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#26

Didn’t know about those! Gestures - User Interaction - iOS - Human Interface Guidelines - Apple Developer

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#27

This is happening here almost always now. I noticed it started frequently when I installed Calendar from community plugins and Templates from core. It was intermittent before.
Pinch gestures aren’t a great workaround because I often use Obsidian in slide-over mode and three fingers barely fit on the UI.

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#28

Interim Solution:
You can go to Settings \ Mobile, and add a paste button to your mobile toolbar.