ME:: TIL about the macOS Dragging and Selection clipboards ; cricket:: The three different clipboards – Tech Reflect
Discovered: Jul 31, 2025 16:31 ME:: TIL about the macOS Dragging and Selection clipboards ; cricket:: The three different clipboards – Tech Reflect
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When you use Copy (⌘C), the selected content is written to the system clipboard (aka clipboard), replacing what was already there. This is great until you find you really need to carry more bits of data around. Turns out that macOS actually has two additional clipboards:
- Dragging clipboard
- Selection clipboard