Universal Clipboard is a huge time saver and productivity boost, but you have to enable it.
One of the most useful features of the Apple ecosystem is something Apple calls Universal Clipboard, and yet many iPhone and Mac users don’t seem to know it exists, mostly because Apple doesn’t really advertise it.
The way it works is simple: When you copy something on your iPhone (text, an image, a link, whatever), you can select Paste on your nearby Mac and the contents will appear over just as if you were doing a copy/paste on the same machine. The same goes in reverse, from your Mac to your iPhone or iPad. Once you get used to Universal Clipboard, it quickly becomes one of your best productivity tools.
But it requires a little setup, and it can be hard to find because it’s a feature of a broader technology called Handoff that allows you to resume working in supported apps between iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Here’s how to enable it.
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