How do you cut and paste with an iPad?

[Jirel]

3. It takes a lot of pressing and holding.

You press on what you want to copy (or depending on where you’re copying from, you may need to double tap and it’ll get the ball rolling by selecting the word you touched, to get the ball rolling), and it will highlight. If it’s text, you’ll get little “slider bars” with a dot to adjust what you want to copy. When you have that area selected, press and hold, and a menu will pop up right over your text with the option to Copy. Touch that, then press and hold where you want to paste, and it’ll pop up a menu with a Paste option. Select that, and you should be good to go.