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Cannot paste text on mac into ios simulator Xcode 12?

I am using Xcode 12.5, and I am trying to paste some text from a file into my ios Simulator (iPhone 11 ios 14.5). This does not work. Any thoughts or ideas on how to fix this?

I have looked at a number of other posts but they all seem outdated and don’t work for me.

Also I am using an Apple M1 Mac mini …if that makes a difference. I am also building my application with Xamarin.

The steps I took:

  • I turn of Automatically Sync Pasteboard
  • Copy the text (which is just letters from a .txt file)
  • Click send pasteboard from the edit menu.
  • Click on my Editor control and select paste

The outcome is that it shows the bubble at the top saying myappName pasted from CoreSimulatorBridge. However, it doesn’t actually paste the text.

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    I answered this elsewhere, but it took so long to find I am repasting a couple places I looked first. Essentially, with Apple M1 Silicon, iOS 14+ pasting doesn’t work. Switching to a simulator running 13.7 or earlier fixed it.

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    Now with XCode 14 I’m not being able to build 13.7 or earlier.

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    it seems it was an issue that Apple fixed in the latest XCode updates, copy/paste works with me on a simulator with IOS 16.2 and XCode 14.2

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