this is for pocket edition only

Crafting a stack of bamboo into sticks is really tedious. So I went to the help menu and it told me to press and hold but it does not work. I did a bit of digging around and people say it doesn’t work. It would be nice if this was fixed. If not Mojang could put a button on the crafting table menu so you could quick-click craft a stack of[insert example item here]