Privacy & safety · Clipboard, Junk Yard and your devices
Is my Junk Yard clipboard history private?
Short answer: Yes. Junk Yard keeps everything on your Mac with no account or cloud, and its search runs on-device. Scraps only leave your Mac if you turn on Bridge clipboard sharing, and the Sharing switch can stop that entirely.
Yes. Everything on the Junk Yard stays on your Mac — no account, no cloud, nothing synced anywhere on its own. Search, including the smarter Apple Intelligence search, runs on your Mac and works offline.
The only way a scrap leaves your Mac is if you turn on clipboard sharing with a device paired through Bridge — and even then, the Sharing switch in the Junk Yard header stops anything leaving, whatever each device's setting says.
Most scraps also clear themselves on a timer unless you pin them. See Junk Yard.