After updating to Xcode 26.4 (public release), I’m no longer able to paste from the Mac clipboard into the Simulator.
Automatically Sync Pasteboard is on, and I have content on the clipboard, but paste doesn’t work—Cmd+V does nothing, and there’s no Paste option in the context menu.
Is anyone else seeing this?
Yep, seeing the same thing. Updated, restarted, played with the Automatically Sync Pasteboard function on and off, no avail. Some of the things I need to paste are enormously long too, so it's really not possible to type by hand. And getting error messages out is almost as bad but at least I can take a screenshot and screen read/OCR whatever text was on that particular page. Pretty bad bug.
the same
Same issue here
Thanks so much for the post.
It's a known issue. Please take a look at the thread https://developer.apple.com/forums//thread/820393
I would recommend to keep an eye on that thread.
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.
I can't confirm if this was a bug prior to 26.4 and, years-old posts online suggest de-checking then re-checking the option for it to work.
I can confirm your screenshot and results.
Also, the de- and re- checking workaround did not work.
bad bug. Please fix ASAP
I hadn't had any issues with this prior to updating to 26.4.
I have a trick for you, first click into the text field in the Simulator so it has focus, then run on Terminal:
osascript <<'APPLESCRIPT' tell application "Simulator" to activate delay 0.2 tell application "System Events" keystroke "paste your text here..." end tell APPLESCRIPT
modify text as you want so it will be pasted there...
Same here. I haven't had any issues prior to updating to 26.4.
I had to go back to the 26.2 simulator to get copy paste working again.
Insanely infuriating. Does anyone use copy paste on the simulator team?
same here
Same bug!
yeah i have the same bug with the new xcode 26.4 for me an short time solution is to downgrade xcode to the old version there it works like it have always been
Super annoying bug fix ASAP!!
saaaammmmeeeeee
Xcode 26.5 Beta was just released https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=Xcode can you please check if the issue was resolved there?
Albert Worldwide Developer Relations.
