Copy paste text into iOS simulator

I found that even with Edit > Automatically sync pasteboard ticked, the feature didn't work.

However, simply unticking and then reticking this option fixed the feature!

Hope it works for someone.

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Be careful to avoid conflating the mac's clipboard with the simulator's clipboard. They are not the same.

The simulator is simulating an iOS device, with it's own iOS clipboard which apps running on that device (simulator) use via the iOS pup-up select-all/copy/paste UI items.

Completely separate from that: your mac has it's own clipboard and content. The Simulator program running on your mac provides the Edit > Paste Text menu item. The program implements that menu item by accessing your mac clipboard and types the text into the simulator as if the user used the keyboard. The iOS clipboard is neither accessed nor affected by the Simulator application's Edit menu functions.

Update: As of Xcode 6, you need to choose the Edit > Paste menu item in the iOS Simulator (this transfers the data between the Mac clipboard and the iOS Clipboard), then tap in the field in the simulator and tap the "Paste" bubble.

In your question you don't specify which "Safari" you're copying the URL from. It could be the mac safari application or the simulator's safari app. Doing a copy from the mac safari program goes to the mac clipboard, doing a copy from the safari app goes to the iOS clipboard inside the simulator.

I think your issues are coming from confusing the two, thinking there's one clipboard everything is sharing.

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Copy text on the mac, then click the text field in the simulator and press

Shift Command V

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Please click "Automatically sync pasteboard" option in Simulator edit option.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/aG8XB.png

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Xcode 10.0+:

Turning the Automatic Pasteboard Sync off and then back on again solved the issue.

You might have to do that multiple times. Sometimes it takes a while to trigger it for some reason.

(Edit -> Automatic Pasteboard Sync)

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What worked for me is this.

1) copy text from Mac

2) In simulator do edit->paste or Command V (I think this copies the text from mac clipboard to iOS Simulator clipboard).

3) Highlight the textfield in simulator and then do command + Shift + V.

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Similar thing happened to me and I found a strange workaround, it may help anyone else that may come across the same issue. Try the following steps:

Disable and then re-enable the Automatically Sync Pasteboard option, it's found under the Edit menu on the Simulator Copy the text you want from your Mac Paste the text again on your Mac on a text editor like Atom or even your browsers Address Bar Select all the text Cmd+A and then cut/copy Cmd+X/Cmd+C You should now be able to paste the text on the simulator

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I updated to os x 10.13.6 and xcode 10.1 and there is an added menu in edit

https://i.imgur.com/sVBSWdt.png

click get pasteboard then you will be able to paste via the paste tooltip in simulator

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Nothing from the above solutions worked for me. I am using M1 Apple. The thing that worked was this thread https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/74970

In short, if you are using iOS 14.0 to build the app, you will have the above issues.

In order to solve it, what I did was installing iOS 13.7 in xCode by going to Preferences -> Components -> iOS 13.7 -> then rebuild the app in the xCode.

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Just Disable and then re-enable the Automatically Sync Pasteboard option from Edit menu, fixed my problem.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/6zJCF.png

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After trying a lot and nothing work on M1 Macs and simulator above 14 I have taken the different route to solve problem.

Apple script to type the text in simulator.

tell application "System Events"
set texttosay to "Sample Text"
display dialog "Text to type:" default answer "white: "
set texttosay to the text returned of the result
repeat
    delay 2
    repeat 1 times
        keystroke texttosay
        delay 1
        keystroke return
    end repeat
    exit repeat
end repeat
end tell

Steps:

Run above script in apple scripts and paste the text in dialogue box you want to type in simulator. click the input-box to populate the value.

Hope that helps in your problem.

Thanks

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In a new emulator, I got no "paste" option and sync did not work for the simulator. It appears that in the simulator you MUST copy something to the internal clipboard before the sync actually works.

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Sometimes it's very difficult to type long URLs in iOS simulator. There should be some way to copy URL from Max OS to iOS text field. Here's how you can do it:

Copy some text from Mac

Open the simulator and click on a text field where you want to paste the text

Now in Simulator menu click on Edit -> Paste Text

and that's it. Your text from the Mac OS copy buffer should now be there in iOS simulator's text field.

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Three steps:(The key point is make sure that the "Paste" help menu is keeping visible when you use " ⌘ + V".)

make sure you select the point you want to past in the simulator, and the editMenu with "Paste" is show. use keyboard on mac," ⌘ + V", to paste the text into simulator clipboard. click the "Paste" on editMenu that show above, to paste the text into simulator textField.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMuxp.png

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None of these solutions worked for me. I'm using Simulator 11.4. And after trying each of these, I realized all I needed to do was copy something on my Mac using Command + C, and then in the simulator text field, simply hold down the mouse click for an extra second or two, and the paste menu popped up automatically, and worked great.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/SmQJp.png

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sometimes you just need to select Hardware -> reset content and settings in simulator menu. then all works automatically as easy and transparent as working in MacOS with other applications

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This works for me. On Safari version 8.0.3 and IOs simulator version 8.1

Copy text from Safari - highlight text then cmd-v or Edit>Copy. In Ios Simulator click Edit>Paste. On TextField or TextView right click then select Paste.

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This is what I found.

Copy text from mac. In simulator open safari and highlight the address bar by clicking it. Press Cmd + V Click once on address bar. Paste drop down shall appear. Tap on paste.

Shift + Cmd + V works great too.

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⌘ + V : When iOS simulator is in front,copy the contents of the OS X clipboard over to iOS, but doesn't paste it. Again, this works for both text and images. So you need to do as follows: 1.copy text anywhere in your macOS except iOS simulator. 2.in iOS simulator, click ⌘ + V, copy text from macOS clipboard to iOS simulator's clipborad. 3.in iOS simulator, TextField or TextView click -> Edit ->Paste.

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