---
id: privacy-safety.is-junk-yard-clipboard-history-private
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/privacy-safety/is-junk-yard-clipboard-history-private
category: "Privacy & safety"
subcategory: "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."
tags: ["junk yard", "clipboard", "privacy"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/privacy-safety/is-bridge-end-to-end-encrypted"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Is my Junk Yard clipboard history private?

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](https://storagestudio.us/manual/junk-board).