{"id":421178,"date":"2021-11-03T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=421178"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:35:39","slug":"copy-and-paste-between-android-and-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/421178-copy-and-paste-between-android-and-windows.html","title":{"rendered":"Copy and paste between Android and Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s software keyboard tool SwiftKey is getting a new feature that will allow you to sync your clipboard between Android and Windows devices to copy and paste text between the two.<\/p>\n<p>This feature comes with the latest version of SwiftKey Keyboard, version 7.9.0.5.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is called Cloud Clipboard and was previously available in a beta version in August earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Clipboard needs to be enabled and set up on both devices before you can use it.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">To enable the feature on Android:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the latest version of SwiftKey from Google Play<\/li>\n<li>Open SwiftKey<\/li>\n<li>Select Rich Input &gt; Clipboard<\/li>\n<li>Toggle on \u201cSync clipboard history to the cloud\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sign in \/ Create a Microsoft account<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">To enable the feature on Windows:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Navigate to Windows Settings &gt; System &gt; Clipboard<\/li>\n<li>Toggle on \u201cClipboard history\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Toggle on \u201cSync across devices\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sign in to your Microsoft account<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After completing these steps, your device clipboards should be synchronised.<\/p>\n<p>The SwiftKey <a href=\"https:\/\/support.swiftkey.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360050207692-How-to-use-Microsoft-SwiftKey-to-copy-and-paste-across-your-devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>support page<\/strong><\/a> contains additional information about syncing your devices and troubleshooting guides.<\/p>\n<p>The Cloud Clipboard will only save the last piece of text you copied and delete it after an hour.<\/p>\n<p>SwiftKey has also assured that the copied data is encrypted and not processed or stored by the service.<\/p>\n<p>It is uncertain whether the Cloud Clipboard feature will come to iOS devices in the future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/421078-new-5d-discs-offer-500tb-storage-10000-times-more-than-blu-ray.html\">New 5D discs offer 500TB storage \u2014 10,000 times more than Blu-Ray<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SwiftKey users will be able to copy and paste text between their smartphone and computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341084,"featured_media":421180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,123,73984,17482,807],"class_list":["post-421178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-swiftkey","tag-swiftkey","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421182,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421178\/revisions\/421182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}