ClipRing Support

1. Open Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards.
2. Tap Add New Keyboard… and choose ClipRing.
3. Tap ClipRing in the keyboards list and enable Allow Full Access.
4. In any text field, tap (or hold) the 🌐 globe key and switch to ClipRing. Tap a clip to paste it; swipe left on a clip to delete it.

Why Full Access? It’s the only way iOS lets a keyboard read the clip history ClipRing stores on your device. The keyboard makes no network connections and never records what you type — see the privacy policy.

With Auto-save on open, iOS asks “Allow ClipRing to paste from…?” each time ClipRing reads the clipboard. To allow it once and for all:

1. Open Settings → Apps → ClipRing (or tap Open iOS Settings for ClipRing inside the app’s Settings tab).
2. Set Paste from Other Apps to Allow.

Two quirks of iOS worth knowing: that setting only appears after ClipRing has tried to read the clipboard at least once — so copy something and open ClipRing first, then change the setting. And the in-app import button (the system paste control) never prompts at all: your tap on it is the permission.

1. Make sure Auto-save on open is ON in ClipRing’s Settings (it is by default).
2. Open Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap → Double Tap and pick a shortcut that opens ClipRing (create one in the Shortcuts app with the “Open App” action if needed).
3. Now: copy text anywhere, double-tap the back of the phone — ClipRing opens and saves the copy automatically.

Prefer not to open the app? Build the shortcut as Get Clipboard → Save Text to ClipRing instead — it saves without ClipRing coming to the foreground.

ClipRing ships three Shortcuts actions:

• Get Latest Clip — returns the text of your newest clip.
• Save Text to ClipRing — saves whatever text you pass it (pair with “Get Clipboard”).
• Choose a Clip — shows a picker of your recent clips and returns the chosen text. Pair it with the built-in Copy to Clipboard action to put an old clip back on the clipboard from anywhere — Back Tap, the Action button, Siri, or Spotlight.

Long-press your Home Screen → add the ClipRing widget. It shows your most recent clips; tapping a row’s copy button puts that clip back on your clipboard, ready to paste.

On first launch macOS asks to let ClipRing “receive keystrokes from any application.” This powers the ⇧⌘V / ⇧⌘Z history cycling and detecting ⌘C in terminal apps. To grant it:

1. Click Open System Settings on the prompt (or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring).
2. Turn on the toggle next to ClipRing.
3. Switch back to ClipRing — the orange banner disappears and the shortcuts work immediately. No relaunch needed.

ClipRing only watches for its own shortcuts; it never records, stores, or transmits your keystrokes. If you declined the prompt earlier, the banner at the top of the ClipRing window has an Open Settings button to get back to the right place.

• Check System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring — the ClipRing toggle must be on (it resets if you reinstall the app).
• Make sure ClipRing is running — look for its icon in the menu bar. Enable Launch at login in ClipRing’s Settings so it’s always there.
• ⇧⌘V cycles in place: paste once with ⌘V first, then press ⇧⌘V repeatedly to swap that paste for older clips. Press Escape to cancel, or just keep typing to accept.

If you enabled Require Cmd-C in terminal apps in ClipRing’s Settings, only explicit ⌘C copies are saved there (this stops copy-on-selection from flooding your history) — and it needs Input Monitoring granted (see above). If you use a terminal ClipRing doesn’t recognize, add its bundle ID under Settings → Terminal → Custom terminal apps.

1. Sync is part of ClipRing Pro (one-time purchase). Buy it once — the same purchase unlocks iPhone, iPad, and Mac via your Apple ID (use Restore Purchases on the other device if it doesn’t unlock automatically).
2. Sign every device into the same iCloud account.
3. Turn on Sync across devices in ClipRing’s Settings on each device.
4. Copy something, then open ClipRing on the other device (or pull to refresh) — the clip appears within moments. Sync updates when you open or refresh the app, not silently in the background.

Your history syncs through your own iCloud account’s private database — never through our servers, and we cannot read it.

Yes. If you bought ClipRing when it was a paid-upfront app, version 2.0 unlocks Pro automatically at no charge — open the app once and Settings will show “ClipRing Pro — Unlocked.” If it doesn’t, tap Restore Purchases on the paywall while signed into the Apple ID that made the original purchase. Thank you for the early support!

No. Content that password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, Apple Passwords, and others) mark as concealed on the clipboard — passwords, one-time codes — is automatically excluded and never recorded.