When it was released in 2007, the first iPhone model caused great excitement. The iPhone, which contains important features, was also an important step for the smartphone world. However, this groundbreaking phone received great criticism for not offering copy-paste functionality. A former Apple engineer finally spoke about this shortcoming.
Why didn’t copy-paste exist in the first iPhone model?
Ken Kocienda, who joined Apple in 2001, was on the team that developed the first iPhone model. The successful engineer finally explained the reason behind the long-anticipated copy-paste problem. Kocienda, who shared a fun post on Twitter, attributed the reason for this problem to the lack of time.
Kocienda stated in his post that he did not have enough time to properly reveal this feature before the first iPhone model was released. The former Apple engineer said that at this time he was busy working on the keyboard, autocorrect and text functions of the device, so he did not have time to copy-paste.
Some time after the launch of the iPhone, the team started working on the copy and paste functionality. Apple started to offer the copy-paste feature on iPhone models with iOS 3.0, which was introduced in 2009.
Kocienda also shared other information about the original iPhone model in its posts. The successful engineer stated that the “text magnifier” that zooms in when the user’s finger hovers over it was his idea.
Kocienda shared another interesting information about the text system on the first iPhone. The engineer explained that almost all the text on the first iPhone was supported by WebKit. He stated that all editable text is WebKit based.
It was really interesting that the groundbreaking phone of that era didn’t have this kind of feature. With this sharing of Kocienda, this situation has also been clarified. So what do you think about the first iPhone model? You can share your views with us in the comments section.
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