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After updating to Xcode 26.4, paste from Mac to iOS Simulator is completely broken. Cmd+V does nothing. Long-pressing a text field shows no “Paste” option. The Simulator’s clipboard is just empty.

Restarting the Simulator, toggling “Automatically Sync Pasteboard”, killall pboard, resetting privacy settings: none of it helps.

The workaround

Write directly to the Simulator’s pasteboard with simctl:

echo -n "your text here" | xcrun simctl pbcopy booted

This bypasses the broken Mac-to-Simulator auto-sync. Once run, paste works normally inside the Simulator. You still need another Cmd+V to paste into simulator.

Not great, but it works until Apple fixes it.