Bridge & your devices · Managing paired devices
Can I turn Bridge off completely?
Short answer: Yes. Pause, Disconnect or Forget devices in the Devices tab, and turn off the Sharing switch in the Junk Yard header to stop all clipboard sharing. Storage Studio's core-only performance mode also stops Bridge.
Yes. Bridge is on by default, but you can stop it whenever you like. To stop everything going out at once, pause sharing for all devices; to drop links, Disconnect each device; and to remove them for good, Forget them.
If you'd simply rather nothing ever leaves this Mac through your clipboard, turn off the Sharing switch in the Junk Yard header — that stops clipboard sharing to every device regardless of their own switches.
Switching Storage Studio to its lightest, core-only performance mode also stops Bridge until you leave that mode.