Stop Paste from capturing specific apps

Paste saves everything you copy by default, but you can tell it to skip a specific app so copies made there are never added to your Clipboard History.

These are Mac settings. Paste Settings on iPhone and iPad has no app-exclusion list.

Stop saving copies from a specific app

To exclude an app, open Paste Settings → Privacy and use Ignore Applications ("Do not save content copied from the applications below").

• Add an app with the + button at the bottom of the list. While an app is on the list, Paste ignores anything you copy in it.

• To start capturing from it again, select the app and remove it with the − button.

Excluding an app applies to new copies. Anything you copied from that app before you added it stays in your Clipboard History — remove those items manually.

You can also skip certain kinds of content regardless of which app it comes from:

• Ignore transient content — "Do not save temporary data generated by other apps."

• Ignore confidential content — "Do not save passwords and sensitive data when detected."

Excluded my password manager but passwords still appear

When Paste can detect that a copy is a password or other sensitive data, Ignore confidential content filters it out automatically.

Some password-manager browser extensions copy in a way Paste can't detect, so those copies may still be saved. If copied passwords still show up:

• Copy from the password manager's desktop app instead of its browser extension.

• Or add the browser to Ignore Applications in Paste Settings → Privacy, so Paste skips everything copied in that browser.

Ignore Applications looks at the app you're working in at the moment you copy. A password copied from a menu bar icon, such as the Passwords menu bar icon, is matched against that app, so adding the password manager to the list covers only copies made in its own window. Apple's Passwords app is on the list from the start. If passwords copied from the Passwords menu bar icon still appear in your history, contact us and we'll look into it.

Things to know

• Excluding an app only affects new copies. Anything already in your history stays there until you remove it.

• To stop saving from every app at once for a while, rather than excluding one app, pause Paste with Command-T or choose Pause Paste from the menu bar; it resumes after the duration you pick.