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What Clipso Handles

Clipso reads clipboard contents while capture is enabled so it can create searchable clip cards. Depending on what you copy, those cards can include text, links, rich text, images, screenshots, colors, file references, source app names, dates, favorites, folders, and representation types.

Clipso is designed to help you restore and organize clips, not to build advertising profiles or run background analytics on what you copy.

Apple Intelligence Actions

On supported Apple devices, Clipso can offer Apple Intelligence-powered actions for copied text clips, such as summarizing or helping transform text. These actions are optional and happen only when you explicitly choose them.

When you run one of these actions, Clipso may pass the selected clip text to Apple’s system intelligence features so the requested result can be generated. Clipso does not turn AI processing on by default for every clip, and it does not use your clips to train a separate Clipso model.

Availability, processing behavior, and any cloud handling for Apple Intelligence depend on Apple, your device, your region, and your Apple settings.

Local Storage and Encryption

Clipso writes clipboard payload files in the user Application Support area and encrypts them before storage using CryptoKit ChaChaPoly. The encryption key is stored in Keychain. Clip metadata and organization data are stored by the app’s local persistence layer.

File and folder clips are handled as references rather than copying large folder contents into app storage. Large clipboard payload limits can also prevent oversized content from being saved.

Optional iCloud Sync

iCloud Sync is off by default. When you enable it, Clipso uses Apple’s CloudKit-backed storage through the system persistence stack. Sync can include existing history, saved folder clips, titles, preview text, source app, dates, favorite state, folder assignment, representation types, folder names, colors, order, and encrypted payload copies.

The payload key is stored in the user’s synchronizable Keychain so Macs signed into the same Apple ID can read synced encrypted payloads. Upload and download timing is managed by macOS and Apple services.

Permissions

Clipboard access is required for Clipso to save and restore clips while the app is running. macOS Accessibility permission is only needed if you want Clipso to paste automatically into the previous app after restoring a clip. Without Accessibility permission, Clipso can still copy the selected clip back to the clipboard.

Apple Intelligence actions are only available on supported Apple devices and depend on the capabilities Apple makes available through the system.

Your Privacy Controls

• Pause capture from the shelf or menu bar.
• Add ignored applications so copied content from those apps is not saved.
• Keep sensitive detection enabled to skip likely passwords, tokens, API keys, one-time codes, private keys, and credential-like text.
• Set history size and large clipboard limits.
• Turn iCloud Sync on or off from Settings.
• Choose whether to run Apple Intelligence actions on individual clips instead of applying AI automatically across your history.

Retention and Deletion

Clipboard History follows the history limit you choose. Clips saved inside custom folders are treated separately from rolling history cleanup. You can clear Clipboard History from Settings, delete individual clips, remove ignored apps, and clean up prepared or synced iCloud payload data.

Contact

If you have a privacy question or need help with deletion, sync cleanup, or permissions, contact support.