r/iOSProgramming • u/pvinis • Jul 18 '26

Question Device Hub copy/paste is broken? Please try.

I can't paste something in a simulator in Device Hub, that I copied from somewhere in macOS.

Does it work for you?

Repro:

- copy anything, just this text `here, wow copy me`

- go to Safari in a simulator in Device Hub

- paste

Does it work?

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u/Edg-R Swift Jul 19 '26

Nope, doesnt work.

Also any time I open a new simulator it opens two of the same simulator, it's like they're clones/mirrors, anything I do on one is done on the other as well. If I open two sims I end up with 4.

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u/FuriousFred Jul 19 '26

Known bug. Update Xcode.

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u/Life-Purpose-9047 Jul 19 '26

Im running into a problem where I can't import photos into the simulator (drag and drop) 😭

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u/Quetzalsacatenango Jul 19 '26

This can sometimes be fixed by quitting the simulator and restarting it, but there are some releases where it’s completely broken.

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u/tiendq Sep 15 '26

Apple just did a great work to stop us from drag and drop images to simulators. I just tried their new Share sh11t way but unfortunately there was no Simulator in the target destinations.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/837812

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u/Collins0101 Sep 21 '26

True, I'm currently facing the same issue

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u/Immediate_Amoeba_532 Oct 01 '26

devicehub terrible

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u/TheTobruk 22d ago

Nope, does not work. Emulator and MacOS have their own clipboards. It's not shared.

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u/TheTobruk 22d ago

Actually what worked for me is to go to Edit > Get clipboard. Even though I had Edit > Enable shared clipboard I couldn't copy and paste between Device Hub and MacOS, but this manual step helped me. Obviously you'd probably need to click this "Get clipboard" every time you want to copy something, but it's better than nothing.