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How to See the Clipboard History on Mac

With Supercharge

The built-in history needs two shortcuts, one after the other. Supercharge opens it directly:

  1. Open the settings of Supercharge, and click “Shortcuts”.
  2. In the “Toggle specific Spotlight tab” section, click the field next to “Clipboard”, and press the keyboard shortcut that you want, like ControlCommandV.
  3. Press the shortcut in any app. Spotlight opens with the clipboard history.

The same section has shortcuts for the “Files” and “Actions” tabs of Spotlight. Supercharge does not keep a history of its own: it opens the one of macOS.

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Platform
macOS
Requires
macOS 26.4 or later
Released
September 2024
Privacy
No personal data collected
Updated
September 2026
Version
1.30.1
Size
16 MB
Gumroad rating
5.0/5 (284 ratings)

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Without an app

  1. Press CommandSpace to open Spotlight.
  2. Press Command4, or click the Clipboard button to the right of the search field. The first time, Spotlight asks to show results from the clipboard: allow it.
  3. Type to search the items that you copied, and select the one that you want. Press CommandC to copy it again, and paste it where you need it.

To erase the history, click the More button to the right of the search field, and choose “Clear History”. Apple’s instructions.

The history is not kept forever, and private text that you copy can show in it. On macOS 15 and earlier, there is no clipboard history: macOS remembers only the last thing that you copied, and you need a clipboard manager app for more.

To see all the formats of what is on the clipboard now, see how to see what is on the clipboard.

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