How to see your clipboard history on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and Chromebook

1. 1Press Win + V.
2. 2The first time, Windows asks you to turn it on: click Turn on. From then on it saves what you copy.
3. 3Click an item to paste it. Use the three dots to pin it, so it survives a restart.

It keeps the last 25 items (text, HTML and images up to 4 MB) and clears them when you restart, except the pinned ones. It can sync between Windows PCs with the same Microsoft account, but not with a phone. If it doesn't open, check Settings → System → Clipboard → Clipboard history. More in Win+V alternative.

Since macOS Tahoe (26), Spotlight has a clipboard history. Press Cmd + Space to open Spotlight, then Cmd + 4 to jump to Clipboard. It shows recent texts, images and screenshots you copied; click one to copy it again. You turn it on or off in System Settings → Spotlight, where you can also clear it. By default it keeps items for 8 hours, and since macOS 26.1 you can choose 30 minutes, 8 hours or 7 days.

On older versions of macOS there's no history: Finder → Edit → Show Clipboard only shows the last thing you copied. Universal Clipboard passes that one item to your iPhone or iPad, not to a Windows PC.

The iPhone has no clipboard history, not even in iOS 27. It keeps one item: copy something else and the previous one is gone. To paste, touch and hold a text box and tap Paste. A screenshot isn't copied either; it goes to Photos.

Where the clipboard is, how to see what's on it with Shortcuts, and how to keep a history: clipboard on iPhone.

Android itself keeps only the last thing you copied. The history is in your keyboard:

• Gboard: tap the clipboard icon at the top of the keyboard (turn it on the first time). It clears items shortly after you last use them, except the ones you pin.
• Samsung Keyboard: tap Clipboard in the keyboard toolbar. It shows copied items and recent screenshots; pin the ones you want to keep.

Step by step, with screenshots of each keyboard: clipboard history on Android.

Press Search + V (the Search or Launcher key, plus V). You'll see the last 5 things you copied, including text, links and images; click one to paste it. The history is cleared when you sign out or shut down the Chromebook.

Each system's history stays on that device, keeps only a few items and forgets them after hours or a restart. Colurus is a clipboard history in the cloud that works on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and Chromebook, in the browser: what you save on one shows up on the others, and it stays until you delete it.

1. 1Open colurus.com on each device and sign in with the same Google account.
2. 2On a computer, press Ctrl + V (Cmd + V on a Mac) in Colurus. On a phone, copy something and tap Paste, or Choose image for a photo or screenshot. Phones don't let apps read the clipboard in the background, so on the phone you send each thing with one tap.
3. 3It shows up on your other devices right away. Click or tap it to copy it again, or search for it later.