
Clipboard History
iOS Shortcut
INSTRUCTIONS / INFO / READ ME:
Part 1-
“Clipboard to History" shortcut:
First, create a folder in the Apple “Notes” app and name the folder “Clipboard”. This is where the history is stored and called from, giving you control over your privacy/iCloud exposure based on your “Notes” app settings.
Next, copy an item, then run this shortcut to commit what you copied to the clipboard history. I recommend adding this to your Control Center, integrating it with back-tap, or something of the sort for for ease of access.
(Until there is a way to make an automation with a “when something is copied” trigger, manually running the shortcut is the only way to do this)
When you run this shortcut, you’ll be able to tell the result without any interrupt to your display and no prompts to dismiss or select from. One of three things will happen:
iOS Shortcut to manage clipboard history, enabling multi-item copy/paste on iPhone.
Utilizes conditional logic, scripting blocks, and user interface prompts to create an intuitive mobile clipboard history tool.
The Clipboard History tool comes as 2 shortcuts, one which commits the current clipboard to history, and the other which recalls the history for you to select one.
- If there is no vibration, this indicates there was nothing on your current clipboard to commit to the history, aka you have nothing copied, so no action was taken. The Clipboard to History tool will not create blank entries in the history.
- If there is a singular vibration, this indicates that the current item on your clipboard, aka what you currently have copied, is one of the five (5) most recent items committed to the Clipboard History. The tool will not create a duplicate entry for an item already available for selection in the Clipboard History.
- Three vibrations indicate that the shortcut ran successfully, and the current clipboard (copied) item was committed to the history.