Fact · Voice privacy and security
Apple said in 2022 that from iOS 16 the system confirms the user's intent before an app reads pasteboard items written by another app.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“In iOS 16, the system confirms intent for all access to pasteboard items written by other apps.”
What's new in privacy (WWDC22 session 10096), Apple Developer, 2022, Pasteboard access section of the session transcript.
Open the original- What it measures
- Apple presented the change at WWDC 2022 as part of a set of privacy changes. The prompt that results is the Allow Paste request that iPhone users see.
- What it does not show
- This is Apple's description of design intent from 2022. It does not give the exact wording of the prompt that users see today.