Just wondering what this globe icon is when I go to copy and paste. It looks very similar to the globe icon for an international keyboard but when I hit it, it just pops the selected text up in a blue box. What is the point of this feature?
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What is the globe icon
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Huh, interesting. I don't know what I could have done to turn this "feature" on. It is in both safari and atomic web browser. Atomic browser is the best btw. The orange color is changeable to a bunch of different colors. It comes with black by default. 
Wonder if this globe function is some type of accessibility feature.
Wonder if this globe function is some type of accessibility feature.I went and check my atomic and didn't have it there, and couldn't find what it might be in accessibility either.
I'm perplexed!
I'm perplexed!
TraceyS/FL said:I went and check my atomic and didn't have it there, and couldn't find what it might be in accessibility either.
I'm perplexed!
No it's in safari as well. I also checked the Accessibility section and not there. I thought at first it was kind of cool dictionary type feature...... Not a pop up.
Yeah that's for emoji using the Japanese keyboard. Don't have any international keyboards enabled on my iPad and have rebooted as well. Still there.
Do you have a jailbroken iPhone? Did you set up the iPad as new, or as a restore from an iphone backup?
ntrigue said:You must have a different setting under International keyboards.
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All I have for keyboards is English. I did at one time have a Spanish one, but that was removed. I have rebooted, everything I can think of. I won't restore as it's just not big of a deal to me. Just thought it was interesting. Maybe it a bug if you add/remove a international keyboard. With that said, I still don't know why that would add a function to the select text options.