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1. Upon opening, app for service XYZ sees your clipboard has the URL www.xyz.com/whatever and offers to navigate to that link within the app, saving the user from having to find it again in the app or paste the URL in the search bar (if there is a search bar).

2. When using 2FA, 1Password will automatically write your one time code to the clipboard so it can easily be pasted. As a convenience, after 45 seconds or so it restores your previous clipboard contents for you. To do this it has to be able to read them.

3. An OCR app has a "OCR from clipboard" button to extract text from the image currently in the clipboard.



- Writing to the clipboard is not the same as reading it.

- Apps can and should let the user paste it themselves. (Examples #1 and #3 offer only slight convenience at the cost of user privacy and security.)




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