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.

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.

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.