This is the reason the first iPhone didn’t carry the Copy Paste feature

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Apple has brought a number of innovative and latest features in various lines of iPhone models that are launched every year.

Entering the 15th year since the iPhone was first introduced on June 29, 2007, many users do not know that Apple’s first phone did not have a copy and paste feature.

Yup, Apple just introduced the feature copy and paste this on the iPhone 3GS. Then what is the reason iPhone don’t have that feature?

Former Apple engineer and software designer, Ken Kocienda, revealed the reason the first famous iPhone did not have a copy and paste feature.

Kocienda’s short and funny explanation is that Apple engineers didn’t have time to implement the feature.

“The Apple team has been busy building the iPhone’s virtual keyboard and system autocorrecther,” said Ken Kocienda, as quoted from 9to5MacTuesday (21/6/2022).

After the iPhone was released, Ken and his team decided to work on the copy paste feature. However, it will still take a while before the feature is ready to use.

He explained that he was the first to come up with the idea of ​​a “magnifying text loupe” on the iPhone.

With this, users can know where exactly they are hovering the text cursor, which is very important for copying and pasting.

However, with the virtual magnifying glass the cursor still moves between characters after the user lifts their finger from the screen due to natural blinking.

Ken Kocienda also had to develop “touch history log” just for text editing.

After removing the finger from the screen, the system automatically detects the position of the user’s finger milliseconds after the last touch, so that the cursor remains where the user wants it.

With so many features to develop, the Apple team just released copy paste this is on iPhone OS 3.0 in 2009 and installed directly on iPhone 3GS.

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