iOS 14 Notifies Users When an App or Widget Reads Your Clipboard

Good. This was by far the biggest gaping hole in iOS's privacy surface. It's really egregious compared to everything else.

That video implies that google.com reads the clipboard. Is google really spying on my clipboard everytime I go to search?

It’s Chrome, the app, that’s reading the clipboard, not the website.

Why should it read clipboard unless user is pasting something?

It's a UX shortcut. I see this in google maps. If an address is in the clipboard it will offer to shortcut straight to search.

Thanks, but this should be a prompt that can be rejected!

I agree with that, something I have always appreciated about Apple is the minimal amount of interruption I get from the operating system when I'm using my device.

Whilst I understand that privacy is important, I don't want my phone alerting me each and every time the iOS detects something. I'd prefer to set an expectation and let it handle it for me.