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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Yeah I'm using the iOS 14 beta and it shows you when something is pasted from the clipboard. It wasn't always nefarious. The Canada Post app checks the clipboard to see if you have a tracking number copied.
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This is pretty much what apps do with clipboard data especially on iOS, they usually have some means of using that clipboard data to make the experience better for the user. Browsers will automatically check the clipboard when you open them to see if the clipboard content is a URL so they can present 'Paste and go' functionality on the address bar. My parcel tracker apps will detect strings in the clipboard that match a certain length and ask if I want to track them.
Not everything is nefarious as you said, but I have yet to hear any justification for something like TikTok doing it.