Copy text to clipboard with iOS

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tarnfeld picture tarnfeld · Sep 25, 2009 · Viewed 69.4k times · Source

What is the best way to copy text to the iPhone's clipboard in your application?

Their docs are sketchy and have way more features than what I want... I just want to set a string as the users clipboard.

Answer

samvermette picture samvermette · Nov 5, 2011

Although the accepted answer is a good walkthrough of how UIPasteboard works, I figured I'd post the relevant snippet right here for everyone's convenience:

Obj-C

UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
pasteboard.string = @"Paste me!";

Swift 2.2

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"

Swift 3+:

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"

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