Copy/Paste not working in XCode 13 Simulators with M1 Macbook Pro

Question

Copy/Paste not working on Xcode 13 with M1 Macbook Pro simulators. It was working on a normal Mac PC.

Answer 1

Waiting a fix from Apple I managed to create a custom MacOS Shortcut to handle this copy/paste on Simulators.

Here are the steps to make it work:

1. Add this workaround shortcut into your Menu Bar like this.

2. Open your iOS Simulator
3. Select the text input in the simulator where you want your text to be pasted
4. Select the text you want to copy
5. Execute the shortcut from your Menu Bar

Normally it should works. The keystroke is a bit slowly I agree but didn't find any other way to make it work properly.

Tap on the siri action. It could fail

Here are steps to enable it:

Answer 2

This is unfortunately a recurring issue for a lot of people on Xcode 12, 13 - less frequently, but still seems to be around as of Xcode 14.

There are three possible workarounds:

1. If it is a link (or other supported data) you can right click (ctrl+click) within a macOS app (such as Safari or Mail) and select Share / Simulator from the context menu. This will open the URL in the Simulator you choose.
2. Create a text file, save it to your Desktop, then drag it on top of your Simulator device. This will allow you to save it as a local file within the Simulator's iOS. You can then copy and paste any data from there by opening the text file from the Files app.
3. Upload an HTML file to a server that is accessible by the simulator (could be on your localhost as well if you have Apache running) and open the link in Safari. Here's a php example that will allow you to click URLs or copy text easily.