Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen ...

Being able to copy and paste text on your phone is vital to everyday usage. On Google Pixel, there are a few features that make the copy-and-paste process incredibly seamless. This guide explains how ...

Apple has improved the ways you can quickly select, copy, and paste text, but the new gestures take some learning — especially if you regularly used the previous ones. Only, if you were used to how to ...

Microsoft's Snipping Tool on Windows 11 is a handy way to capture specific screenshots on your PC, and it's now getting an upgrade to make copying text from images way easier. In a blog post published ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. There are many ways to copy text that can't be ...

One of my favorite iPhone tricks, which I use all the time, is called Live Text. Apple introduced the feature in iOS 15, and it's available on iPhones as old as the iPhone XR/XS series. The name is ...

There's also the Mac clipboard, though you'll need a separate app if you want to look back through your clipboard history. Reading time 3 minutes Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you’ll get ...

It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. Cutting, copying, and pasting are actions that are regularly performed in apps and between apps: ...

When an app says “you can’t copy this,” this tool politely disagrees.