Expanded Menu

Clicking the Batch Clipboard menu icon with OPTION (⌥) pressed will show the expanded menu which also includes recent history of everything on the clipboard:

Expanded Menu

When in batch mode, the item to be pasted next will likely not be at the very bottom but will still be indicated by the badge "replay from here". There will also be a separator line between this and the earlier clipboard items below it. (When running macOS versions before 14.0 Sonoma, this item won't get this badge but still have a separator line)

What you can do with the expanded history items:

  • To see the larger preview of the text or image of a history item, mouse over, or use arrow-keys to highlight it, and wait a couple of seconds for the tooltip to appear.

  • To replay pasting a clipboard item, select that item. It will be placed on the clipboard and you can use your application's normal Paste command to paste it.

  • You can delete a history item. Mouse over, or use arrow-keys to highlight it, then press COMMAND (⌘) + DELETE (⌫).

The expanded menu also adds this menu item:

  • Delete History Item is available for use via its keyboard shortcut COMMAND (⌘) + DELETE (⌫) when mousing over one of the clipboard items, or having used arrow-keys to highlight it.

  • Clear History... use this menu item to completely empty the saved clipboard history. If currently in batch mode, then all such items will also be cleared and clipboard behavior will return to normal.

    The shortcut for this menu item, COMMAND (⌘) + OPTION (⌥) + DELETE (⌫) is not global and will only work when the Batch Clipboard menu is open.

    If you're wanting to delete a record of sensitive data you may have copied, consider instead temporarily pausing the app’s monitoring of the clipboard beforehand, see Special Menu Icon Actions and Ignore Custom Copy Types.

The number of history items displayed in the menu can be changed in the settings window, see Settings.