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With the arrival of macOS Sierra, the Universal Clipboard tool also arrived on Macs and devices with iOS 10, which, as you may well have guessed, is a tool that allows that when you make the gesture of copying that copy of text on a Mac, for example, is available on your iPhone to be able to paste it, for example, in the search engine.
Seen like this, it is a very simple tool to use and everything is done automatically, however, all that glitters is not gold and you must take into account certain things regarding the computer model that you must have as well as the iDevices system that must be installed and be clear about how to have the Handoff protocol activated.
As we have already mentioned in the opening paragraph of this article, with the arrival of macOS Sierra, the Universal Clipboard tool has also arrived. A tool with which we will be able to make the copy and paste gesture but between devices of the Apple brand, so we can initial the copy of a text on the iPhone and then paste it automatically in Keynote on the Mac.
This function depends directly on what you may not have on a Mac the Handoff communications protocol, a protocol that is present in certain Mac models but not in all those that the apple company has put on the market in recent years. For this reason, the first thing you should be clear about is that your computer is in the list that we present below And it is that in case it is not so, better not continue reading this article because you will not be able to put it into practice:
- Mac Pro (late 2013)
- iMac (2012 and later)
- Mac mini (2012 and later)
- MacBook Air (2012 and later)
- MacBook Pro (2012 and later)
- MacBook 12 (Early 2015 and later)
Now that you are clear about the first thing, you have to know where to activate the Handoff protocol. On the Mac you must enter System Preferences> General> Allow Handoff between this mac and your iCloud devices and on iOS devices you must enter Settings> General> Handoff> Handoff.
Third, you must have the bluetooth connection of the two devices active, have the same Apple ID on both and that both work on the same WiFi after which you will have the Universal Clipboard fully operational. The Universal Clipboard does not need an internet connection and it is that everything that moves in a matter of data is done totally local.