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Welcome to Clipboard AI: a 3-minute setup

What Clipboard AI does and the three things to set up first so everything you copy is saved, searchable, and one tap away.

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Enable the Clipboard AI keyboard

Add the Clipboard AI keyboard and turn on Allow Full Access so you can paste any saved clip from inside any app.

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Skip the paste prompt: allow paste from other apps

Stop tapping Allow Paste every time. Set Paste from Other Apps to Allow so Clipboard AI reads your clipboard instantly.

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Clipboard AI on iPad

The same app, keyboard, widgets, sync, and Apple Intelligence features, laid out for the bigger screen and working in every orientation.

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Set up Clipboard AI on your Mac

Clipboard AI lives in your Mac menu bar and keeps everything you copy. Get the app, turn on Accessibility and sync, and start copying.

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Turn on Accessibility so paste works on Mac

On Mac, Clipboard AI pastes by simulating Command V, which needs Accessibility access. Here is how to turn it on in System Settings so paste works automatically.

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How to capture and save clips

Four ways to save a clip on iPhone: from the keyboard, the Share sheet, by opening the app, or with a button in Control Center, plus the settings that shape saving.

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Save with the Action Button, Back Tap, and Siri

Save what you copied without opening the app. Press the Action Button, double tap the back of your iPhone, or ask Siri, using the Save Clip To ClipboardAI shortcut.

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Save text, links, and images with the Share sheet

Use Save to Clipboard AI in the iOS Share sheet to send text, a link, or an image straight into your clipboard library.

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Pin and save the clips you want to keep

Pin a clip to keep it at your fingertips, add a quick note, and understand the free pin limit versus Pro.

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Give your clips custom names

Rename a saved clip to something you will recognise. The name shows in your lists while the real content still pastes.

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Organise clips into Collections

Group related clips into Collections with their own icon and colour, so the things you reuse stay together.

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Widgets, Control Center, and the Lock Screen

Put a collection on the Home Screen and copy a clip with one tap, keep your recent or saved clips in view, and save whatever you copied from a Control Center or Lock Screen button.

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Paste a saved clip from the keyboard

Open the Clipboard AI keyboard in any app and tap a saved clip to drop it straight into the text field.

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Search your clipboard history

Search your clips by content, category, or the text inside a screenshot, ask for a clip in plain words with Apple Intelligence, or find it from the Home Screen with Spotlight.

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Clean up and transform text

Change case, trim whitespace, strip HTML, encode URLs, and more, then copy the cleaned-up result. Or let Apple Intelligence summarize, proofread, and rewrite a clip (Pro).

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Smart categories, explained

Clipboard AI sorts every clip into Links, Phone, Email, Address, Codes, Text, and Images, all on your device.

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Paste anywhere on Mac with the hotkey

Press Command Shift V to pop the Clipboard AI floating menu at your cursor, search your clips, and paste into any app on your Mac.

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See your whole clipboard history with Show all clips

The All Clips window on Mac: your whole history with search, Ask, Collections, Saved, drag-and-drop filing, and Select all over any search.

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Search your clipboard history on Mac

Find any clip on Mac in seconds: type in the floating menu, narrow All Clips with type, app, date, and saved filters, ask in plain words with Apple Intelligence, or search from Spotlight.

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Pin, name, and organize clips on Mac

Pin the clips you reuse, give them custom names, and group them into Collections with their own icon and colour.

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Clean up text on Mac

Change case, trim whitespace, strip HTML, encode URLs, and more, right inside Clipboard AI before you paste, or let Apple Intelligence summarize, proofread, and rewrite a clip (Pro).

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Customize the hotkey and menu on Mac

Change the paste hotkey, set plain-text pasting, pick a theme and text size, keep history in a fixed order, decide whether deleting asks first, ignore apps, and put clips in Spotlight.

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Mac keyboard shortcuts, the full cheat sheet

Every keyboard shortcut for Clipboard AI on Mac: open the floating menu with Command Shift V, paste a ranked clip, pin the menu open, save or delete the highlighted clip, switch tabs, preview images, paste as plain text, and paste several clips at once.

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Paste several clips at once on Mac

Select multiple clips and paste them all in order with Paste All, step through them one at a time with Paste One by One, or merge them into a single clip with Copy as one.

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Paste without formatting on Mac

Strip fonts, colours, and links out of anything you paste on Mac. Hold Option for one clip, or turn on Always paste as plain text so every paste lands clean.

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Pin the paste window and work through a session

Press Command P and the Clipboard AI floating menu stays on screen while you switch apps. Command S saves the highlighted clip, Command Delete removes it, and right-click files it into a collection.

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Act on a whole search at once on Mac

Search or Ask in All Clips, click Select, then Select all, and save, file, copy as one, or delete every match together. Saved and filed clips stay out of Select all unless you tick them.

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Copy the text out of any image

Clipboard AI reads the text inside screenshots and photos on your device, makes it searchable, and turns the numbers, links, and tables it finds into chips you can act on.

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Ask your clips a question

Describe what you copied in plain words and Apple Intelligence finds the real clips, answers in a sentence, and lets you copy or share the lot. Free, on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Rewrite a clip with Apple Intelligence

Summarize, Key Points, Proofread, Make Professional, Make Friendly, and Shorten, right inside Transform, on your device or through Apple's private cloud. Part of Pro.

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Act on the numbers, links, and tables inside a screenshot

Phone numbers, addresses, links, dates, amounts, tracking and flight numbers inside a screenshot become chips: tap to copy, hold to call, open, or navigate. Tables copy as real cells or Markdown.

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Find your clips in Spotlight

Turn on Find Clips in Spotlight and your clips show up in the iPhone's or Mac's own search. Opt-in, per device, and codes and sensitive clips are never included.

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Calculations, conversions, and translation from a clip

Copy a sum, a percentage, or a unit conversion and the answer is on the clip. Copy text in another language and a Translate button appears. Both on your device.

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Sync your clipboard across devices with iCloud

Turn on iCloud Sync with Pro so the same clipboard follows you across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Understand the sync status panel

Read what CloudKit, Key-Value Store, Wi-Fi direct, and Encrypted at rest mean in the sync panel.

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Get Clipboard AI on your Mac

Add the Mac app so the clipboard you build on iPhone is right there in your menu bar on the desktop.

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Your clipboard on every device

Turn on iCloud sync so the clips, saved items, and Collections you build on your Mac show up on your iPhone and iPad, and the other way around.

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Your privacy and your data

What stays on your device, what syncs and how it is protected, what deleting really erases, and how to auto-delete, clear, or export your clips.

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Deleting clips: what is erased, what is kept

Delete erases a clip immediately with no undo, and asks first unless you turn that off. Clear All History and auto-delete keep your saved clips and anything in a collection.

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Clipboard AI Pro and billing

What Pro unlocks, what stays free, the 7-day free trial on the yearly plan, the Lifetime option, and how to restore purchases.

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Troubleshooting common issues

Fixes for the keyboard not showing clips, the Allow Paste prompt returning, clips not syncing, and images stuck syncing.

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Why the keyboard is light or dark

The Clipboard AI keyboard follows the app you are typing in, like every keyboard on iOS. Set Color Scheme to Light or Dark in Clipboard AI to keep one look everywhere.

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Paste isn't working on Mac

If picking a clip on your Mac does not paste, it is almost always Accessibility access. Fix that, plus three other quick checks.

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