macOS 16 will improve clipboard privacy on your Mac by displaying a banner if an app tries to read the things you've copied and pasted, Apple has confirmed.
macOS 16 will warn you if an app tries to snoop on the things you copy and paste
Paste
Mac clipboard: How to strip formatting and styling to copy and paste plain text
Learn how to strip the original formatting and styling when using macOS clipboard to copy and paste plain text instead of your Mac.
NoPasteAlerts16 does away with the paste permission alerts in iOS 16 and later
Starting with iOS & iPadOS 16, Apple’s mobile operating systems have a somewhat nagging way of asking whether you want to share pasting rights with certain apps and interfaces or not when copying/cutting something and move to another app or interface to paste it.
CopyVault enables powerful pasteboard access on jailbroken devices
Normally when you copy or cut items on your iPhone or iPad, you can readily paste those items elsewhere with a couple of taps. Unfortunately, once you copy or cut a new item, previous items are lost until copied or cut again.
A fix is coming for iOS 16’s excessive clipboard paste permission prompts
Apple says iOS 16's excessive privacy permission prompts when pasting from the system clipboard are a bug that'll get addressed in an upcoming software update.
Control iOS clipboard access on a per-app basis with NoClipboardForYou
I have a hard time trusting apps with my privacy as it is, but my worries run deeper when they’re realized by app makers that seemingly have zero interest in conserving user privacy, but rather harvesting user data for the sake of profit or surveillance.
Examples that struck irritating chords with me included learning that popular apps like LinkedIn and TikTok snooped on users’ clipboards without their permission. Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 update makes users more aware of app-centric clipboard access, but if you don’t plan to update because you’re jailbroken, then you can use a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called NoClipboardForYou by iOS developer shiftcmdk instead.
How to use Cut and Paste on Mac
It may not be obvious, but your Mac has the option to cut a file and paste it at the new location in Finder. In this tutorial, we will show you five different ways to use cut and paste on your Mac.