How to copy text to the clipboard in iOS

What is pasteboard

Pasteboard (or Clipboard) is a term that refers to a place that lets users share data from one place to another.

The most common scenario is copying text from one app and pasting it to other apps.

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How to copy text to the pasteboard in iOS

To copy text from your app, you need to write it down to the systemwide general pasteboard.

You can access it from UIPasteboard.general.

Here is how you copy text "123456" to the pasteboard. You just set a string to the general pasteboard like a normal property.

UIPasteboard.general.string = "123456"

That's all you need to do to copy text to the pasteboard.

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How to read the data back from the pasteboard in iOS

To read the text back, we can read it from the same property.

if let text = UIPasteboard.general.string {
    print(text)
}