{"id":"privacy-safety.is-junk-yard-clipboard-history-private","url":"/faq/privacy-safety/is-junk-yard-clipboard-history-private","category":{"id":"privacy-safety","title":"Privacy & safety"},"subcategory":{"id":"clipboard-and-devices","title":"Clipboard, Junk Yard and your devices"},"question":"Is my Junk Yard clipboard history private?","alt_questions":["Does Junk Yard upload what I copy?","Is clipboard history stored in the cloud?","storage studio junk yard privacy","Who can see my clipboard scraps?","Does Junk Yard sync my clipboard to other Macs?"],"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.","answer_markdown":"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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nMost scraps also clear themselves on a timer unless you pin them. See [Junk Yard](/manual/junk-board).","answer_html":"

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.

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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.

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Most scraps also clear themselves on a timer unless you pin them. See Junk Yard.

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Privacy & safety · Clipboard, Junk Yard and your devices

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Is my Junk Yard clipboard history private?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Most scraps also clear themselves on a timer unless you pin them. See Junk Yard.

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