Get notified when pasteboard did change
Observe NSPasteboard — Swift 4
How to listen for clipboard changes
1 min readMay 22, 2019
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 changes.
So I wanted to write a small snippet of code that provides a notification when the clipboard changes.
The Problem
The only solution is “polling” but what does that mean?
You need to check changeCount and if it’s changed send a notification, let’s see how:
Easy right? Then to get notified you can listen as always via the NotificationCenter like shown below:
