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How to cut‚ copy‚ and paste on Android phones
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge
Cutting‚ copying‚ and pasting are actions that are regularly performed in apps and between apps: getting an address from a message into a map‚ moving an image from an email to a document‚ or just transferring text from one end of a note to another. But while I’ve known how to cut‚ copy‚ and paste on a laptop or desktop computer for‚ well‚ forever‚ I wasn’t quite as sure at first how to do it on my Android phone.
In fact‚ cutting‚ copying‚ sharing‚ or pasting on Android is pretty straightforward — no matter which app you’re in or what you’re trying to move around. Here’s how to do it.
Note: I’ve tested these techniques on a Google Pixel 8 running Android 14 and a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 running Android 14 and One UI 6.0.
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