According to a
MacRumors article, Apple has added cross-app drag and drop to iOS 15. This apparently was added to iPadOS back in 2017, although I never knew it until now. You can pick up images, documents, and files from one app and drag them into another. Warning, in typical Apple fashion, this so-called shortcut is rather convoluted and nonintuitive and definitely requires either a lot of dexterity and/or two hands to achieve.
Quote:
To drag and drop on iOS 15, long press on an image, text, or file and, without lifting that finger, use a second finger to swipe out of the app and open another app. Then, let go of the image, text, or file to drop it into the other app. Long pressing on content makes it appear to rise and adhere to your finger, and as the content is dragged, animations and visual cues identify possible destinations where the content can be dropped....
In many apps, you can drag a single item with one finger, and while dragging, select additional items by tapping them with another finger. The selected items move together and appear stacked beneath the finger that's dragging the original item. You can then drag the items as a group and drop them into another app.
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Good luck with that! Perhaps you can get a pet octopus and train it to do this for you, they are really smart from what I hear.
ETA: I just tried this with my iPad mini and found that I can more easily do it in this modified manner:
In an app, long press on an image, text, or file and, without lifting that finger, say "Hey Siri open Notes," then, let go of the image, text, or file to drop it into the Notes app. (Substitute the app you want to paste into for Notes.) You will still need to select the position in which to paste the items.
That worked and didn't hurt the begeezes out of my arthritic hand. At least it worked with Safari being the copy making app and Notes being the destination (paste into) app. So if you use Siri to open the app you want to paste into, this might be a lot more useful than I originally thought. Selecting multiple items to copy will still be tough on those will dexterity issues.