Bypass Your iPhone's Clipboard Restrictions to View Your Complete Clipboard History and Recopy Anything - Gadget Hacks

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Your iPhone's clipboard tin lone prevention 1 point astatine a time, truthful it whitethorn look intolerable to retrieve your full past of copied text, images, and different content. Luckily, determination is simply a workaround you tin usage to find and transcript your past clipboard contents, but you person to instrumentality it first.

While there's nary built-in mode to presumption much than 1 point successful your iPhone's clipboard, you tin grounds and retrieve everything you transcript from this constituent onward. That way, you person a grounds of everything successful lawsuit you request to recopy thing important.

There are third-party apps similar Clipboard, Clipboard++, Clipboard - Paste Anywhere, Copypasta Keyboard, Paste - Clipboard Manager, and Paste Keyboard that volition grounds immoderate you transcript to your clipboard. Still, they aren't a cleanable solution.

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Why You Should Avoid Third-Party Clipboard Apps

First, astir third-party clipboard apps necessitate an associated keyboard to find and prime your clipboard past contents. That's beauteous inconvenient and adjacent confusing, particularly if they don't connection a regular typing keyboard.

Second, you request to unfastened the app oregon keyboard aft each clip you transcript contented to your clipboard. If you don't, it volition lone beryllium capable to grounds the past known contents of your clipboard — not everything since the past clip you opened the app oregon keyboard.

Third, since iOS 16, each these apps indispensable inquire support to paste the existent contents of your clipboard from different apps to their app. This tin get annoying fast, but immoderate much up-to-date apps volition amusement a "Paste from Other Apps" paper (on iOS 16.1 and later) successful the Settings app wherever you tin ever let support without information prompts.

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Fourth, you whitethorn accidentally fto 1 of these clipboard apps grounds delicate information, specified arsenic passwords. You tin person password manager apps similar LastPass bare your clipboard automatically aft 30 seconds oregon truthful erstwhile copying a password, but not each apps tin bash that. Can you truly spot the developers of these clipboard apps?

A Better Solution: A Custom-Built Shortcut

You could physique your ain shortcut successful the Shortcuts app to prevention the existent clipboard introduction successful assorted ways. Each clipboard introduction tin beryllium kept successful a abstracted enactment oregon file, named with the existent day and time. Or you could adhd each introduction to the aforesaid enactment oregon file, with dates and times attributed to each entry.

However you physique your shortcut, you tin delegate it to Back Tap. That way, whenever you privation to prevention thing you conscionable copied, conscionable pat the backmost of your iPhone 2 oregon 3 times close after. You'll hide you're adjacent doing it aft a while.

With your ain shortcut, you don't person to usage a funky keyboard oregon unfastened different app whenever you transcript something, you tin prevention the clipboard past locally connected your iPhone oregon successful iCloud, and you person implicit power implicit what is saved.

Step 1: Download the Shortcut

To prevention you immoderate time, I created a elemental shortcut you tin install. Tap the shortcut's link, past prime "Set Up Shortcut" erstwhile the preview opens successful Shortcuts to statesman configuring your preferences.

Add to Shortcuts: Save Clipboard History (iCloud link)

Step 2: Choose a Save Method

Now prime which method you privation to usage to prevention your clipboard history; Delete the others from the list, past deed the "Next" button.

Text and media volition beryllium saved if you prime the Notes app. Only substance volition beryllium saved if you take the Files app, and immoderate media volition beryllium recorded arsenic their record names.

If you privation to prevention media to Files, consciousness escaped to play astir with the shortcut's workflow to get it to prevention arsenic circumstantial record types, depending connected immoderate is successful the clipboard. I was trying to support this shortcut slimmed down to support it simple.

Bypass Your iPhone's Clipboard Restrictions to View Your Complete Clipboard History and Recopy Anything

Method 1: Separate Notes

If you take "Separate Notes," prime a folder successful the Notes app wherever you privation to prevention each note. It volition prevention to your default "Notes" directory if you don't take anything. Hit "Next" until you scope the past configuration page, past deed "Add Shortcut" oregon "Done" to prevention the shortcut to your library.

To trial it out, spell to the "Shortcuts" tab, past pat the caller "Save Clipboard History" shortcut.

The archetypal clip you prevention text, images, oregon different media, it volition inquire you to springiness the shortcut prevention privileges — prime "Always Allow." You should lone person to bash this erstwhile per media type, truthful allowing it for substance means the punctual won't look again erstwhile immoderate substance is successful the clipboard.

As soon arsenic the shortcut runs, it volition unfastened straight to the caller enactment successful the Notes app. If you don't privation that to happen, spell into the shortcut's editor, deed the arrow adjacent to the folder sanction you chose nether the "Separate Notes" if statement, past toggle disconnected "Open When Run."

Method 2: 1 Note

If you take "1 Note," prime a enactment successful the Notes app wherever you privation to prevention each clipboard entry. If you don't take anything, it volition inquire you to prime a enactment each clip you tally the shortcut. Hit "Next" until you scope the past configuration page, past deed "Add Shortcut" oregon "Done" to prevention the shortcut to your library.

To trial it out, spell to the "Shortcuts" tab, past pat the caller "Save Clipboard History" shortcut.

Each clip the shortcut runs, you'll get a notification that it has completed its work. Whatever was successful the clipboard volition beryllium saved to the enactment you chose. You tin presumption the enactment astatine immoderate clip successful the Notes app. Each introduction volition archetypal springiness the month, day, and year, followed by the clip successful hours, minutes, and seconds.

Method 3: Separate Files

If you take "Separate Files," prime a folder successful the Files app wherever you privation to prevention each file. It volition prevention to your default "Shortcuts" directory if you don't take anything. Hit "Next" until you scope the past configuration page, past deed "Add Shortcut" oregon "Done" to prevention the shortcut to your library.

To trial it out, spell to the "Shortcuts" tab, past pat the caller "Save Clipboard History" shortcut.

Each clip the shortcut runs, you'll get a notification that it has completed its work. Whatever was successful the clipboard volition beryllium saved arsenic a caller enactment successful your chosen directory. Each record volition beryllium named with the month, day, and year, followed by the clip successful hours, minutes, and seconds.

Method 4: 1 File

If you take "1 File," prime a folder successful the Files app wherever you privation to prevention the clipboardhistory.txt file. You tin alteration the sanction of this .txt record successful the shortcut's exertion if necessary. It volition prevention to your default "Shortcuts" directory if you don't take anything. Hit "Add Shortcut" oregon "Done" to prevention the shortcut to your library.

To trial it out, spell to the "Shortcuts" tab, past pat the caller "Save Clipboard History" shortcut.

Each clip the shortcut runs, you'll get a notification that it has completed its work. Whatever was successful the clipboard volition beryllium saved to immoderate enactment you chose. If you didn't prime a circumstantial file, it mightiness not work. Each introduction volition archetypal springiness the month, day, and year, followed by the clip successful hours, minutes, and seconds.

Step 3: Assign the Shortcut to a Back Tap Gesture

Back Tap is an iOS accessibility feature that lets you pat the Apple logo connected the backmost of your iPhone 2 oregon 3 times rapidly to execute an assigned action. In our case, it would tally the shortcut. Go to Settings –> Accessibility –> Touch –> Back Tap, past prime either "Double Tap" oregon "Triple Tap." Scroll to the Shortcuts conception and take "Save Clipboard History."

From present on, each clip you pat the backmost of your iPhone 2 oregon 3 times, the shortcut should run. You tin bash this instantly aft you transcript thing to your clipboard. If it's delicate accusation you don't privation to beryllium recorded anywhere, you tin simply not usage the Back Tap gesture.

If you usage Universal Clipboard to presumption the clipboard contents from your Mac oregon iPad, you tin usage the Back Tap motion aft your iPhone has synced. It should inactive work.

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