Clipped wings

[023] ... [Technology]

Two weeks back I mentioned the thrill of receiving the OS update on my phone, at last. The process always assures you on being safe, bringing additional features.

I am, rather was used to keeping an eye on the clipboard, removing the unwanted recently cut or copied, to retain just the selected past snippets that are regularly used, so they never get replaced by the not so important new ones to stay within the dozen or so allowed count it's designed to hold. It helped in pasting such readily than retyping each time.

A few days back on longpressing a blankspace, it was confusing on not finding the clipboard option under context menu. I remembered a new security feature that's supposed to alert when an app tries to access it without consent, and repeated in a few other programs, only to see the same results. Naturally it was disappointing and led to verify if it was just me facing the issue, and though relieved on finding many like me in the same boat (who mentioned it six months back on getting updated!), to accept it as a permanent security hindrance here on was intimidating. At least there could have been an option to allow the owner to select a few without breaking the rule than totally cutting it off. Improvements some times rob you off some essentials.

Of course, I use the "Microsoft SwiftKey board" that let's you store a number of pre-defined text to trigger when typing the related shortcut or keywords to act as a text expander. But the access to clipboard used to be a double bonanza when freely copying any text or links, and now it's gone. I, like you avoid going for untrusted third-party creations that are more interested in displaying Ads. I wish there was an alert during the update informing to migrate existing clipped contents before going totally invisible.