Just like the title says. I used to be able to copy an image from a website or page, Facebook for example, and then directly paste into an imessage on my Mac. Since the upgrade, this went away. Why?
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.15
Agreed. It works fine from Safari but not Chrome. "Paste" is grayed out in the popup menu when coming from Chrome. I can, however, crtl-v and that works. It is clear the image made it safely to the clipboard but Big Sur is treating them differently for some reason.
Am having the same issue. When I copy images from Chrome or Whatsapp and try to paste into Messages, the paste option is greyed out. Surprisingly, the same image can be copied and pasted from Safari. This behavior started after I upgraded to Big Sur.
Mine used to not Ctrl+V paste either. It worked today, so far at least. The only thing that changed is that I updated my iOS on my phone to 14.3.
The iPhone and the Mac’s copy/paste are connected. I wonder if that has something to do with it. Someone either on this board or another had luck when they connected their iPhone to their MBP. That didn’t work for me though.
I fixed my issue finally today! Not sure exactly what the fix was, but it appears my login for the cloud was different than my phone and computer.. so I changed the password in the cloud to match the Mac and phone. Shut
Down the computer again and and logged into the messages again and did the sign of the cross and sent an image and it worked. Sooooo annoying. Till next time Btw this is not the first time I had to deal with this but surely the hardest to fix!
UPDATE: I still cannot copy/paste from any website while using Chrome, but I can copy from pages opened with Safari. This seems to be an issue with non-Apple browsers. Proprietary restrictions?
Yes, I know how to copy/paste. The issue is the image is available to copy, and not just a link, but when I go to paste it into Messages on my Mac, the paste option is greyed out. I can paste it into an email, or elsewhere, but not into Messages.
I too am having this problem; Am very MAC friendly and know COPY/PASTE well... but right now, as Clark4131 states, when you do a screen capture and the image is on your clipboard, when we go to paste it on an iMessage, 'paste' is greyed out. What is the solution here??
Haha @jonrowland... Apple always subtracts (headphone jacks etc...). The fact that it does work in Safari tells me they have made changes to the clipboard in a proprietary way so now we are even MORE locked in to all things Apple. Lightning connectors, iMessage, Apple Pay, only texting from a Mac OS, etc... All things get us to buy more apple products because they work with other Apple products and rarely with a 3rd party. Apple wouldn't take away cruise control, they would make a proprietary cruise control which can only be controlled through an iPhone and call it iCruise.
This is the same issue I have. There is something in the image format that causes them to fail to be delivered to any device other than apple. Messages will fail delivery even if only one participant has non-apple. I have tried exporting the image and sending the export but that fails as well.
Continue to follow. Presently , Mac Big Sur.....draggin still workin. Its a Pain!
A whole other topic is intermittently and randomly, I can not text in Messages on my Mac to certain people and has no diff of what phone they have....takes a long time to fix it and it is a different fix each time!
Obviously this is an issue with Big Sur.
I have succumbed to Copy then Command V Works fine....... Now how to figure out why I can not send images from Mac to Androids.....had this issue before...can't get my old tricks to work.
I was able to Paste a screen snapshot to iMessage in my MacBook by using command -V ;)
Why has nobody from Apple addressing this??
I was pestered constantly to upgrade to Big Sur version release, to the point where I did it just to stop that constant annoyance.
When I did, there is no obvious (to me), yet this is the first thing I cam across.'
I have worked in SW Product Validation for over 20 years. There is a name for this (Lost Functionality) and it is a GOLDEN RULE to NOT take away existing functionality (add all you want - NO subtraction!) Does GM come and take your Cruise Control feature away from a car you bought and paid for?? I don't think so. so STOP doing that, and PLEASE reply to all these users who have been similarly affected. Just answer the question.
Well, then Miss CeliaBelia, I guess we just demonstrated how working together (think UNITY here) solves problems.
It is literally that simple. "Ask not what your Internet friends can do for you, ask what you can do to help THEM!" (I think that is what JFK meant in 1961)
Peace out - JR
Do <command><c> (copy) and <command><v> (paste) work for you?
If so, I need to create my support item elsewhere.
I am having an issue where copy/paste images on Mac to messages will not send to non-iPhone users. Since it is using MMS it requires a data connection so it routes through my iPhone. When the message fails to send, I notice on the iPhone that the image is listed as tiff format instead of the initial jpeg that was pasted from the Mac.
Can't copy web image and paste into messages after Big Sur upgrade.
