Clipboard Issues

How VoiceInk Pastes Text

VoiceInk pastes transcribed text by temporarily placing it on your clipboard and sending Cmd+V to the active app. If Restore Clipboard is enabled in settings, it then restores whatever was on your clipboard before.

All paste and clipboard settings are in Settings → Recording Feedback.

Old Clipboard Content Gets Pasted Instead of Transcription

This happens when the clipboard is restored before the paste completes — the timing between the paste and the restore is too tight, so the app ends up pasting your old clipboard content instead of the transcription.

Fix: Go to VoiceInk Settings and increase the Clipboard Restore Delay. A value of 0.5–1 second usually resolves this.

Transcription Overwrites Your Clipboard

If Restore Clipboard is turned off, your previous clipboard content is replaced by the transcription after every recording.

Fix: Enable Restore Clipboard in VoiceInk Settings so your original clipboard content is recovered after each paste.

Text Is Transcribed But Nothing Gets Pasted

This usually happens because the target app lost focus between when you stopped recording and when VoiceInk tried to paste.

Fix:

• Make sure you click into the app or text field before starting a recording
• If the issue persists, try enabling AppleScript Paste in VoiceInk Settings, which uses a different paste method that works better in some apps