The regular ‘paste’ function could be replaced by ‘Paste last’ (as there are multiple clipboard items now), next to which a small iCloud logo could live to access the full clipboard history. The obvious place would be in the copy/paste dialogue that appears after a long press in a text field. The secret to making this work would be ensuring the iCloud Clipboard is easily accessible at the point of pasting. Copy some text on your iPad and paste it straight into a doc on your Mac. Copy a URL on your Mac, paste it directly into the address bar on your iPhone. Partly inspired by the recent iOS9 long-press Safari URL field ‘Paste and go’ or ‘Paste and search’ shortcuts, also now that Apple’s iCloud infrastructure seems fast and reliable, I wondered if a there could be a way to enable an Apple-ID shared clipboard with recent history? The idea would be that any Apple device you are logged into and is connected to the internet can access and add to a shared cloud clipboard. Airdrop is too slow to connect most of the time, and handoff is useful if you want to open a webpage or an email (or other content types that are supported) that is already open on Mac to an iOS device, but there are scenarios when I don’t want to open it first on desktop just to handover. Handover is also very immediate, sometimes I might want to access something on a different device later. To perform such tasks cross-device I always end up emailing links, text or images to myself. There have long-been a good selection of clipboard manager apps for the Mac which allow you to access your clipboard history. One of those niggles for me is clipboard management. But there are still a few daily niggles that cause friction. Apple has made some pretty big strides of late with its operating systems and their integrations with each other.
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