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Now I need one to prevent automatic clipboard sharing via handoff without turning off handoff completely.

Believe it or not Apple, some people use multiple machines for different purposes and automatically passing my clipboard between them is an annoyance at best. I'm happy with it just being shared while I explicitly remote from one machine to another.

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I think you just need to disable Universal Clipboard?

How?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102430

Apple only tells me how to turn it on :)

IIRC there is a flag in MacOS settings to toggle it. It’s always been disabled by default for me.

Oh yes! That would be awesome! I often happen to erase something I copied on one device by copying something on another one... would be much better to have an AirDrop like feature where you can send a text to another device instead of automatic

The fact that macOS doesn't have a built in history for the clipboard is the problem there imo. I use pasteBot and I think macOS is broken without it (which of course means iOS is broken and cannot be fixed by a third party).

I use JumpCut. I still don't want my stuff on one machine erased via the other unless i specifically connect them via vnc.

It can. In the EU. AltStore -> Clip. No jailbreak, clipboard manager.

The blog post about it seems to imply you have to do an extra swipe down to put it in the clipboard manager for every copy...

I went back to Synergy from Symless. Handoff has some very annoying glitches when sharing mouse and keyboard. And Synergy is completely configurable. Not to mention that it is a one-time purchase.

Can’t speak for others but the reason I use Universal Control is because it’s the only option that doesn’t perform badly without a hardwired connection, thanks to its use of an ad-hoc wireless network to send mouse movements and keystrokes whereas Synergy, ShareMouse, etc make a round trip through the router adding a bunch of variable latency, which IMO is worse than Universal Control’s glitches.

A one time purchase, but they update it quite frequently, and each time we are required to open browser, log into Synergy account, find the download page, get the .dmg, install… to remove the UI nag - on each computer using Synergy. Please PLEASE make an auto-updater :) I think I had to do this twice in one week recently on three computers, with a strong password I had to write on a post-it

Maybe turning it off and using Paste app instead is worth exploring.

Turning what off? Handoff? But I like the feature where my text messages and voice phone calls can be done on all my devices.

I just want to turn off the clipboard.

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