Copy and paste from iPhone to MacOS not working

I'm on MacOS Monterey and iOS 16.4.1 (both up to date), where copy-and-paste from my iPhone to MacOS is not working. Steps to debug include restarting bluetooth on each device; try pasting into different apps, try selecting/copying the text from the iPhone again, repeat debugging steps. No luck.

Is there a bug in the new revision of iOS that is preventing this operation? How can we fix this?

iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on Apr 23, 2023 12:09 PM

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labachev

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Posted on Dec 20, 2023 5:42 AM

Hi all,

I have faced the same issue and I've just managed to fix it by myself.

Except for having on all devices Handoff option Enabled you will need to run a command in your mac Terminal app.

Here are the steps:

Open the Terminal app on your Mac (Applications > Utilities)

Now, we will first delete Clipboard sharing and then enable it again. Here is how:

defaults delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd.plist ClipboardSharingEnabled

Now, copy and paste this code and hit Enter:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd.plist ClipboardSharingEnabled 1

Now check if copy and paste is working.

For me, it worked.(iOS 17.2 & macOS Sonoma 14.2)

I hope this helps!

Labachev

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