Universal clipboard and the clipboard pool
Copy on one computer and paste on another — between your device and a remote, or between two remotes — text and images.
On this page
How it works
While you have sessions open, each remote computer watches its own clipboard. When something is copied there, it goes into your clipboard pool, which every one of your sessions and devices can see. From the pool you can paste on your own computer or into any other remote.
On the website
- Clipboard (toolbar) sends your clipboard to the remote. The browser may ask permission to read the clipboard the first time.
- Options… → Sync clipboard automatically: your clipboard goes over when you return to the session tab, and a copy or cut on the remote side comes back a moment later.
- Actions… → Get remote clipboard pulls the remote text on demand.
- Actions… → Type clipboard text types it as keystrokes (up to 5,000 characters) — for login screens and consoles where paste is blocked.
- Pasting an image from your clipboard into the session sends it to the remote (“Image sent to host”).
In the app
The Clipboard toolbar item opens the pool: “Copied on any of your computers. Tap Paste to put an item on …”. Each item (TEXT or IMAGE) has Paste and Copy to this phone; Add what this phone copied puts your phone’s clipboard in the pool. The app also syncs the pool to your device’s clipboard automatically — a copy on a remote computer reached an iPhone in about 2 seconds in testing.
Who controls it
- Admins set Clipboard mode in Security Policy: both directions, one direction only, or blocked.
- A permission profile without Clipboard disables it for those sessions.
- Files are copied differently — see File transfer.