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Things We Like: iPhone OS 3.1 Lets You Copy Numbers & Addresses From Contacts

Submitted by Michael Johnston on July 3, 2009 - 4:41pm.
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As we all know copy & paste finally made its way to the iPhone in 3.0, but it was missing ONE BIG THING. You couldn't copy information from contacts! Honestly Apple, how the heck did you miss that one? Sure, you could hit "Edit" and copy the number out that way, but it was so inconvenient. Thankfully iPhone OS 3.1 beta (seeded to developers earlier this week) has added this oh so important feature. When it drops, you'll be able to copy out phone numbers and addresses and even someone's name, email address, photo, and just about anything else!

And yes, we even have a pretty picture of it in action for you to check out below.

Submitted by iPhown on July 3, 2009 - 7:36pm.
I'd like to see copy/paste in all the apps, especially the YouTube one. I guess the apps will slowly start being compatible with future updates.

Submitted by thuggedout on July 4, 2009 - 10:01am.
Yeah I'm happy they fix that, I was very annoyed when I tried to copy a number from my contacts only to discover you have to hit edit in order to copy the number.

Important Fix Needed For Mail

Submitted by pgrosby on July 4, 2009 - 12:57pm.
WIll 3.1 have the VERY necessary "select all" option in Mails's Inbox, so if I get 200 messages, I don't have to pick every one to have the delete option and I can just choose them all at once with one click, like I can do in Palm or Blackberry?