How do I find and bring up my Clipboard?

Could someone please answer two questions in very basic non tech jargon for me?

  1. How do I find and bring up my clipboard? I copied something but cannot fine the clipboard.
  2. Once I find it how do I save something that I want to reread again.

Thanks for your help. This is for my iPad.


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iPad, iOS 12

Posted on Nov 7, 2019 8:57 AM

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Posted on Nov 7, 2019 12:39 PM

You cannot access or see the invisible clipboard or its contents. The last thing that you copied remains on the invisible clipboard until you copy something else.


As and example of what we are telling you, copy some text and then paste it into a note in the notes app. That’s how you see what you have copied. You see it by pasting it in an app.

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Nov 7, 2019 12:39 PM in response to five775

You cannot access or see the invisible clipboard or its contents. The last thing that you copied remains on the invisible clipboard until you copy something else.


As and example of what we are telling you, copy some text and then paste it into a note in the notes app. That’s how you see what you have copied. You see it by pasting it in an app.

Nov 7, 2019 9:09 AM in response to five775

In very basic non tech’ jargon...


1) The Clipboard is not a distinct “thing” that you access; there isn’t a corresponding App per-se. When you select and copy something, the “copied something” is kept in a temporary area of memory until it is pasted elsewhere.


2) If you are not intending to copy and paste “something” as an action, but instead want to keep a copy of the “something” for later reference, then you’ll have to paste it into a document so that it isn’t lost. The Notepad App is an example of somewhere that you could paste the “something”.


Be aware that if you copy something to the clipboard (lets call it “Jack”) and then copy something else (lets call this “Jill”) without first pasting Jack someplace, then Jill will replace Jack on the clipboard (i.e., Jack is lost).


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