Federico Vitale

May 22, 2019

1 min read

Get notified when pasteboard did change

Observe NSPasteboard — Swift 4

How to listen for clipboard changes

Photo by Max Nelson on Unsplash

Today I was thinking about apps like Clippy and other clipboard managers, I thought: “For sure swift provides notification for the copy event”

WRONG! I sadly discovered that on MacOS unlike on iOS you can’t listen for NSClipboard…

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