MacOS pastes text as an image.

AlexSonne81 wrote:

copying from one app and trying to paste to another, but getting a weird image that's a block of text in MacOS.

Is there a specific application example you are referring to...?

I suspect not all apps play nice with one another, espcially if there is third party involved(?)

I have Never had the issue and Not aware of the issue.

if this is ongoing for you—you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

To trouble shoot further you can:

—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.

unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

your description sounds like those people were copying from a PDF what they thought was text but it’s actually just an image of text. A PDF can be just an image of text with no actual text behind it. When you scan a document, it is just an image. To get the actual text, extracted and embedded inside the PDF you would have to use some form of optical character recognition.

I have never had any problems with cutting or pasting on any Apple operating system for over 40 years now.

AlexSonne81 wrote:

Lots of people have this issue. Here's a Reddit thread about it. Very common.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1cary7c/text_is_pasting_as_an_image_macbook_air_m3_sonoma/

Here's a link to it happening

https://youtu.be/YZ2vPpTWyXE

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AlexSonne81 wrote:

Here's a link to it happening

I can't tell since I don't use it. Are you copying text from MS Word? If so, that is a Word issue, not a macOS issue. Try copy and paste using a different app.

Can't say I've ever had a problem copying text from one app and pasting into another, in any version of macOS.

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