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How to Turn Off Universal Clipboard on Mac
With Supercharge
- Open the settings of Supercharge, and click “Tweaks”.
- In the “System” section, turn on “Disable Universal Clipboard”.
- Copy text on your iPhone, and paste on the Mac. The Mac does not paste the text from the iPhone.
Supercharge changes a hidden setting of macOS, so the clipboard stays off when Supercharge is not open. Turn the setting off to sync the clipboard again.
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- Platform
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- Requires
- macOS 26.4 or later
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- September 2024
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- Updated
- September 2026
- Version
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Without an app
- Turn off all of Handoff: In “System Settings › General › AirDrop & Continuity”, turn off “Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices”. This also turns off Handoff of apps, like a Safari page from your iPhone.
- Terminal: Run
defaults write com, and then.apple .coreservices .useractivityd ClipboardSharingEnabled -bool false killall useractivityd. To turn the clipboard on again, run the first command withtruein place offalse, and thenkillall useractivitydagain.
About Universal Clipboard. The Terminal commands change the same hidden setting as Supercharge, so they are enough if you are at ease with Terminal. Supercharge gives you a switch for it.