
Apple has updated the AppKit documentation to inform developers about a significant change coming to the macOS pasteboard, the system-level mechanism for transferring data between applications and Apple devices.
Here’s how it’s going to work:
Currently, macOS apps can programmatically read from the pasteboard (Apple’s term for the clipboard) without the user’s knowledge or prior permission. This contrasts with iOS, which has displayed privacy alerts since iOS 14 whenever an…