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fix_universal_clipboard.md

[FIX]: For Universal Clipboard copy/paste not working

I, like many people, have found that Universal Clipboard copy/paste stops working for no reason. I have a iPhone 12 Pro and an M1 MacBook Air.

All Handoff features work (e.g apps from phone showed up in dock) except copy/paste. I'd tried:

  • Turning BT and Wireless on and off again
  • Turning off/on Handoff on Mac/iPhone
  • Turning everything off on both devices, restarting, turning back on again
  • Deleting BT preferences
  • Even signed out of iCloud on my phone and back in again.

NOTHING worked. Until this:

Make sure you're logged in to iCloud, same account, both devices. Handoff on in preferences as usual. Go to Terminal, and run this:

defaults delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd.plist ClipboardSharingEnabled
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd.plist ClipboardSharingEnabled 1

Universal Clipboard immediately starts working.

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