Windows 10: Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10


Copy paste its something we all do, probably multiple times a day. But what do you do if you need to copy the same few things again and again? How do you copy content across your devices? Starting with Windows 10 build 17666, Microsoft is addressing that and taking the clipboard to the next level simply press Win+V and youll be presented with a brand-new clipboard experience.

Not only can you can paste from the Sets, which means you can access your clipboard across any PC with this build of Windows or higher.

If you turn on clipboard history (Win+V) to sync.

Roamed text on the clipboard is only supported for clipboard content less than 100 kb. Currently, the clipboard history supports plain text, HTML and image less than 1 MB.

Starting with Windows 10 build 18234, the image size limit has been increased from 1MB to 4MB to accommodate the potential size of full screen screenshots taken on a high-DPI devices.

If needed, you can set a group policy in Windows 10 to allow (enable) or prevent (disable) users from being able to turn on Clipboard sync across devices for their accounts on the PC. This policy setting determines whether Clipboard contents can be synchronized across devices logged in under the same Microsoft account or Azure AD account.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Clipboard sync across devices feature for all users in Windows 10.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable Clipboard sync across devices.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Clipboard Sync Across Devices enabled and disabled in Settings











OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Local Group Policy Editor

*note The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Two below.
1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2. In the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor, click/tap on to expand Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, and OS Policies. (see screenshot below)



3. In the right pane of OS Policies, double click/tap on the Allow Clipboard synchronization across devices policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Enable Clipboard Sync Across Devices for All Users
A) Select (dot) Not Configured or Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note Not Configured is the default setting.

6. To Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices for All Users
A) Select (dot) Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




7. When finished, you can close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.





OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry keys below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System

AllowCrossDeviceClipboard DWORD

(delete) = Enable
0 = Disable


1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable Clipboard Sync Across Devices for All Users
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_Clipboard_sync_across_devices_for_all_users.reg

Download

3. To Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices for All Users
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_Clipboard_sync_across_devices_for_all_users.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable Clipboard History in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Clipboard History in Windows 10
• How to Add and Remove Turn On or Off Clipboard History Context Menu in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10
• How to Clear Clipboard Data in Windows 10
• How to Pin or Unpin Items in Clipboard History in Windows 10

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How to see Cloud Clipboard sync working on iPhone?

Sorry, I am not on version 1809 yet, but have a look here to see if it makes any sense.

Enable or Disable Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials
and
Windows 10 October 2018 Update: How to use cloud clipboard - TechRepublic

" The problem with the feature is that it only really works with Windows 10 devices, so if you have an Android phone or an iPhone, you have no way of accessing your PC’s clipboard from your phone."

Windows 10 Will Soon Sync Your PCs Clipboard With Your Android Phone - Thurrott.com

 

When will the Sync Clipboard with PC and Android come to SwiftKey?

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I see that you are using SwiftKey Beta keyboard on your Android phone and looking for the feature to sync the clipboard between the PC and Android phone.



Currently, the feature to sync the clipboard with Windows 10 and Android using SwiftKey keyboard is not available. However, you can sync the Windows 10 clipboard across your devices using the Microsoft account. Please refer the steps in the article

Clipboard in Windows 10.



For more information on Windows 10 clipboard you can refer the article
Get help with clipboard.



To Backup & sync the words and phrases of your SwiftKey keyboard, you can sign in to the SwiftKey keyboard and enable the sync feature. Please refer the article

How to use SwiftKey Backup & Sync.



If you face any issues with sync or using SwiftKey keyboard, I suggest you to get in touch with the

SwiftKey support team.



However, we would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions, as there may be other users with a similar requirement. Hence, I would suggest you to post a feedback in Microsoft

Feedback Hub so that our developing team can review your suggestions and check if it can be included in the future updates



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Cannot Enable Clipboard History in Windows 10 Pro

See Brink’s other tutorial. Turn On or Off Clipboard Sync Across Devices in Windows 10.

 

Clipboard sync across devices - not working

I have two Windows 10 laptops that have been confirmed via the settings "Your info" to be both logged in to the same Microsoft user account,.

I have the clipboard settings on both to:

Clipboard history: on

Sync across devices: on

Automatically Sync text that I copy: selected

I have restarted both machines, but when I copy to the clipboard on either they are not being synced to the other.

Clipboard history is working.

Any ideas?

 

Re-enable audio device

Hi,

I would be happy to assist you.

Before we proceed with troubleshooting, I would need little information on the issue.

• Are using speakers / head phones to listen to audio?

If you have disabled the audio device, then you might not see it under the list of playback devices. I would suggest you to follow these steps to make sure you see the disabled devices:

• • 
    Open
    Control panel.
    
  • 
    Click Hardware and Sound and then Click on
    Sounds.
    
  • 
    Under Playback tab, right click on the empty area and make sure
    “Show Disabled Devices” has a check mark on it. If headphones/Speakers are disabled, it will now show up in the list.
    
  • 
    Right click on the device and
    Enable it. Click OK.
    

If the issue still persists, try enabling speakers automatically using steps below.

• 
  Go to Settings> Click on themes> Advance sound settings> right click on the speakers or the audio device youo have connected > click on
  Configure device.
  
• 
  Test the sound level you want, click Next.
  
• 
  And configure the audio devices.
  

Hope this helps you. Do reply if you need further assistance on Windows 10.

Thank you.