Shared Clipboard
Shared Clipboard lets you automatically synchronize the clipboard between your iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro or Mac and the remote computer.
When enabled, anything you copy on either device is automatically transferred to the other clipboard over the network.
If Shared Clipboard is disabled, you can still transfer clipboard contents manually using the Send Clipboard and Get Clipboard actions.
You can access these actions:
- Mac: From the connection window toolbar.
- iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro: From the Clipboard submenu in the interactive toolbar's Actions menu.
Configuration
Shared Clipboard is enabled by default.
To enable or disable it:
Mac
- Edit > Use Shared Clipboard
- Toolbar > Clipboard > Use Shared Clipboard
iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
- Actions > Clipboard > Use Shared Clipboard
- iPad only: App Menu > Edit > Use Shared Clipboard
Supported Content Types
Mac
When connected to a Mac, you can transfer:
- Rich text
- Plain text
- Images
- URLs
Unsupported content is transferred as plain text whenever possible.
Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi
Only plain text can be transferred to and from Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi computers.
Note: Clipboard support depends on the VNC server in use. Some VNC servers, such as VMware's built-in VNC server, may not fully support clipboard transfers or may only support sending text.
If clipboard sharing is important to you, we recommend using a VNC server with full clipboard support, such as TightVNC, UltraVNC, or TigerVNC.