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Late to the party, but I just randomly realized today that copy & paste syncs across iOS and my iMac. Was surprisingly convenient. Apparently it’s been around s

by sbr464 7y ago

Late to the party, but I just randomly realized today that copy & paste syncs across iOS and my iMac. Was surprisingly convenient. Apparently it’s been around since Sierra, but my settings are now in sync enough to just work.

cududa 7y ago
Wait how the hell do you do that??
- sbr464 7y ago
  https://support.apple.com/kb/ph25168?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/ph25168?locale=en_US It worked for me today for the first time (that I realized). I copied a link from twitter on an iPhone, then pasted on an iMac.
  - cududa 7y ago
    Ahhh I have handoff disabled (I cant stand getting phone calls on my laptop)
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    - sbr464 7y ago
      I got around it by having do not disturb on 24 hours.
    - dhritzkiv 7y ago
      I believe you can turn this off from your phone: Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices
SomeOldThrow 7y ago
You also can’t disable this without disabling handoff entirely.
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sgt 7y ago
Handover is brilliant. Once you get used to it, you really can't go back to the old ways.
cknoxrun 7y ago
Last summer we bought 3 Mac minis for some summer interns to use (biocurators) and I used the same apple account for each of them. We had a very confusing standup meeting the next day trying to figure out why seemingly random scientific text was continually replacing what had been in their clipboards. It turns out copying syncs across all devices, not just iOS <-> Mac.
sangnoir 7y ago
Linux/Android user's can have the same functionality via KDE Connect. It has other features (like using your phone as a trackpad).