Like many people I’ve been struggling with the copy and paste bug in iOS 8.1. It’s so frustrating not being able to consistently copy and paste between apps. Often when pasting it would paste old content and would require many attempts to copy and paste successfully. Without a jailbreak available there was very little that could be done to rectify the issue.
I tried a factory reset and setting up as a completely new iPad. No joy. When you are an iOS family like ours, with many devices failing to work its a most frustrating issue to have. Then thankfully the pangu jailbreak for iOS 8 was released. I instantly jail broke and reinstated all my tweaks, making iOS generally more useable on my iPad 2. Then came the master stroke. I remember using a cydia tweak known as single use keyboard by Yanik Magnan. This tweak essentially wipes the clipboard once you have pasted your text. This is essentially meant for privacy, but I don’t tend to paste more than once. Because it wipes the clipboard once you have pasted, the next time you come to copy and paste the clipboard is empty and cannot replicate old data. This works very well for me and I hope it helps you.
Jail breaking is very easy nowadays. No need to know any terminal commands or any crude hacks, just a simple gui and on screen steps. I always jailbreak. I like to setup my iOS just the way I like it and many of the tweaks much improve the usability of older iOS devices.
I hope this copy and paste fix works for you to. Apple seem to be very slow in rolling out a fix for this.
Thank you very much for this tip, this worked completely on my iPhone 4s
Thank you very much!