How to access clipboard on iPhone

Clipboard allows you to copy and paste text, links, images, and other content on your device. Basically, iPhone does not have a visible clipboard for you to review. But through some tricks, we can still find and manage the clipboard on our iPhone. This article will guide you to use the clipboard on iPhone.

How to access clipboard on iPhone

The easiest way to access and use the clipboard on iPhone is to paste the copied content into the input interface of any application . You can use any application such as Notes, Messages,...

You copy some content and then paste the note content into the application to edit if needed.

How to edit copied content in iPhone Clipboard

Instead of having to paste copied content into another application to edit, you can set a shortcut to edit copied content in the iPhone Clipboard.

Step 1:

At the interface of the Shortcuts application , click on the Collection item and then enter the keyword clipboard . Now you find the Adjust Clipboard shortcut to use.

Step 2:

We click on Add shortcut to add to the shortcut interface.

Step 3:

You open any page and copy the content . Next, open the Shortcuts application and press the shortcut to open the content copied to the Clipboard . Now you can edit the clipboard content as you like. When you're done editing, press Done to save.

Then the content in the clipboard has been changed to the new content after the change.

How to Clear iPhone Clipboard History

There are cases where you want to clear the clipboard for privacy reasons. But iPhone does not have an option to clear the clipboard content. However, there is a simple solution to clear the clipboard history which is to replace the clipboard data with blank text.

You open a new note then press the Space key twice to add two spaces. Next we press and hold on the space and tap Select . Finally, press on the space and tap Cut or Copy to delete the note history.

This will overwrite your previous clipboard content and replace it with blank spaces. And your iPhone clipboard history will be cleared.