There are two ways to get to the share menu in the apps. The one you mentioned is at the top of an apps window, which shares entire documents. However, the 2nd way is via Share on the context menu, which shares just the selected text AND removes any special formatting. Instead of tapping Copy, keep tapping the right arrow until you see Share. Share is hidden towards the end of it, so you may need to tap the right arrow on the context menu quite a few times to see Share. But it’s worth it if you want to copy without formatting.
Great advice. And regarding the hiding context tools; I find this an increasingly frustrating concept. As we have many choices, why should they be hidden? Those context menus are a KEY writing tool for me. The existing method is needlessly difficult, and I may need it dozens of times in a row. Very non-Apple. Expand the menu vertically as needed. I don’t need the rest of my screen when making those very important decisions. Show them all, larger, vertically if needed, and even highlight or shade depending on user context.
@@artysanmobile On iOS/iPadOS one must copy without formatting and then do a normal paste. On Macs one copies normally and chooses to paste with formatting (command-V) or as plain text without formatting (command-option-shift-V). I prefer the Mac method because one might want to paste the same text multiple times with different formatting requirements.
@@bevintx5440 Yes, I am aware, and I’m very vocal about what I consider bad UI design. I admin dozens of Apple products. Desktops, tablets and phones largely need to do the same things today and the UI needs flexibility to make that happen. Yet, we find out after the fact that iPadOS is crippled deliberately to prevent its competing with the Mac. 🤦🏽♂️ I don’t know of anyone who thinks the three product lines overlap at all. We pocket phone, carry a tablet, sit down to the desktop. I have all three for specific reasons. iPadOS is horribly crippled by nonsense assumptions of the sales team and I’m very tired of it. My iPad Pro cost me $2,200. Does Apple really think buyers don’t know what to do with it at that price?
@@artysanmobile I sent feedback about this to Apple again a couple days ago. One can purchase some Mac’s for less than what some iPads cost. It is a viable platform in to own right.
@@bevintx5440 Very true. And I am constantly frustrated with Apple’s poor stepchild approach to it. The Mac finder is a masterpiece. The iPad Files app is a bad joke. Why?
I remember the bad old days pre-iPad when iOS introduced similar content-handling tricks for our phones that were not all successful, such as touch-hold, which took an agonizing number of iOS upgrades to work across the multi-app system. The iPad changed the list of ‘gotta haves’ such that iOS bifurcated to two increasingly different platforms. Some of the current iOS tools on the phone work on iPad, while some don’t. I’ve noted a welcome trend to re-integrate the systems and do I ever welcome it! Truth is, the phone is often the superior of the two just because it needs to be.
Thanks a lot, Gary, for thes tips! Nevertheless, they remain far more complicated than what can easily be achieved on a computer. I'm thinking, for example, of the action of selecting a portion of text, which you can do virtually with your eyes closed on a Mac, and which requires almost abolished precision with your fingers on the iPhone or iPad screen. I'm also thinking of file management, which is so much easier on a Mac than on Apple's mobile devices. I'm certainly not ready to swap my Mac for an iPad.
Geniune question: how do you figure out these guestures? For example, that dragging on the keyboard to move the cursor and a second tap to select; is it mentioned somewhere? It's a nice feature, but I personally wouldn't have known that's possible in a million years!
When Apple introduces these over the years, they usually feature them on What's New lists and in other places. So if you keep paying attention to the updates, you get to know them.
Unless there is a third-party app, I don't know of an easy way. Maybe create it in Numbers so you can sort alphabetically, and then copy and paste into Pages (I assume that is what you are using) when done.
