![]() ![]() Let’s see Universal Clipboard in action! Steps 1 to 3 Paste your text, photo, or video on your other device within any app.Copy your text, photo, or video on one device within any app.Universal Clipboard is proximity-dependent (due to Bluetooth discovery. Make sure your devices are near each other.(System Preferences>General on macOS Sierra, Settings>General>Handoff on iOS 10) Enable Handoff on both devices if not already enabled.(Wi-Fi menu bar at top right of the screen on macOS Sierra, Settings>Wi-Fi on iOS 10) Make sure Wi-Fi is enabled on all your devices.(System Preferences>Bluetooth on macOS Sierra, Settings>Bluetooth on iOS 10) Make sure Bluetooth is enabled on all your devices.(System Preferences>iCloud on macOS Sierra, Settings>iCloud on iOS 10) Sign into iCloud with the same Apple ID on all your devices.Once you have any 2 of the devices listed above running the correct OS versions, the initial setup is similar as that for other Continuity features : (Where i have mentioned ‘or later’, the product listed may currently be the latest product in that family at the time of writing, but listing ‘or later’ will safeguard my blog from any later releases in that product family!) You will also require any two of the following devices : ![]() This feature works only on Apple devices running macOS Sierra (version 10.12.0) or later and iOS 10.0 or later. I’d love to say ‘It’s Magic’! But alas, that isn’t the case! Universal Clipboard is designed to copy and paste any text, photo or video content between two Apple devices’ clipboards. That can be a two Macs, two iOS devices or one of each platform. Universal Clipboard works between two Apple Devices. No more having to email yourself information to get it onto another device, sync content to the cloud and pull it back down again, or using Handoff to transfer the document from one device to another and then copying out of that document into a document on a different app. In other words, you can now sync your ‘copy and paste’ data between Apple devices! Universal Clipboard expands on the Handoff feature by offering the ability to copy content from any app on an Apple device into that device’s clipboard, send that clipboard data into the clipboard of another Apple device, then allowing you to paste that content into any app on that second Apple device. I blogged about this feature on its’ release within the first part of my ‘OS X Yosemite hidden feature series’ back in 2014. Universal Clipboard is one of the latest Continuity features available on Apple Devices.īefore Universal Clipboard Apple previously released Handoff as a Continuity feature for starting a document within an app on one Apple device and then continuing that document using the same app on another Apple device. ![]()
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