I think your issues are coming from confusing the two, thinking there's one clipboard everything is sharing.įacing the same issue on Apple M2 and Simulator 13.4.1, I was digging into my OS logs and it seems that there are some issues in the Simulator - I guess - since I can read that it is not able to retrieve the content of the pasteboard, stored in a file. 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. It could be the mac safari application or the simulator's safari app. In your question you don't specify which 'Safari' you're copying the URL from.

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.

The iOS clipboard is neither accessed nor affected by the Simulator application's Edit menu functions. 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 Simulator program running on your mac provides the Edit > Paste Text menu item. 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.Ĭompletely separate from that: your mac has it's own clipboard and content. Be careful to avoid conflating the mac's clipboard with the simulator's clipboard.

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