Guide

1. Getting started

The first time you open Magic Clipboard, a short walkthrough shows each feature with an animation. Swipe through it or tap Skip. Then the Set up page asks for what the floating bubble needs:

1. Display over other apps (required): lets the bubble float over the apps you use. Tap Allow, switch Magic Clipboard on in the Android screen that opens, then go back.
2. Notifications (required on Android 13 and later): the bubble keeps a quiet notification so Android doesn't close it.
3. Magic Keyboard (recommended): turn it on, then choose it as your keyboard. With it, the bubble glows every time you copy. See Magic Keyboard.
4. Unrestricted battery (recommended): stops your phone from closing the bubble to save battery.

Tap Start and the bubble appears at the edge of your screen. You're ready.

2. Check what you copied

1. Copy some text in any app: a phone number, an address, a price, a date, a link.
2. Tap the bubble.
3. The panel slides up with what Magic Clipboard found and the actions for it, best first. The bubble's menu opens beside it.
4. Tap an action. Calls, messages and calendar events open filled in, and you press the final button.

When the text has more than one thing in it, such as a number and an address, each gets its own actions. Text tools (clean up, change case, encode, share) are always there, even when nothing special was found. Actions you use most move to the front over time.

You can also open the app and tap Check clipboard, or type or paste text into the box on the home screen and tap Show actions.

3. The floating bubble

The bubble's menu

It opens with every tap, beside the panel:

• Scan screen: reads the text on your screen now (see Scan screen).
• History: what you opened before.
• Encode text: turns the copied text into ordinary-looking sentences and copies them.
• Settings and Turn off.

Tap the X, or an empty spot, to close the menu and the panel together.

Move it

Press and hold the bubble until it lifts, then drag it. Let go and it moves to the nearest side. Drop it on the X at the bottom of the screen to turn it off.

It tucks away and glows

After a few seconds the bubble slides mostly off the edge, out of your way. Tap it once to bring it back. It glows when something is waiting: something you just copied (while Magic Keyboard is your keyboard), a message from Watch notifications, or a new screenshot.

Turn it on or off, or hide it for a while

• Turn it on or off with the Floating bubble switch at the top of Settings.
• The bubble's notification has Hide for 1 hour and Turn off. While it is hidden, Show now brings it back.
• With Glow when you copy and Show the bubble when it's off on (Settings → When you copy), a turned-off bubble still comes out and glows for 5 seconds when you copy something, and stays while you use it.
• Pick its colour in Settings → Appearance. The same colour is used for buttons and switches in the app.

4. Actions for each kind of text

Apps you don't have installed aren't offered. Exchange rates update once a day when you are online, and the panel shows the date of the rates it used. Turn off anything you don't want under Settings → What to look for.

5. Magic Keyboard

Magic Keyboard is an optional keyboard with Magic Clipboard built in. You don't need it to use the app, but it adds two things nothing else can: the bubble glows every time you copy in any app (Android tells only the keyboard you are using about copies), and the tools sit right above the keys.

Turn it on

1. Open Magic Clipboard → Settings → When you copy → Keyboard (or use the Set up page).
2. Tap Turn on and switch on Magic Keyboard in Android's list of keyboards. Android shows a standard warning for every keyboard; Magic Keyboard doesn't store or send what you type.
3. Tap Choose keyboard and pick Magic Keyboard.

To switch to another keyboard at any time, hold the space bar and pick one from the list, or use Settings → Keyboard → Choose keyboard. Android's own keyboard button in the navigation bar works too.

The toolbar

Above the keys are the wand (Magic), the crossed-out eye (Encode), Aa (Change case) and Keyboard settings. While you type, word suggestions take their place; tap the wand at the start of the suggestions to get the tools back.

Magic (the wand)

Tap the wand to improve the text you selected, or the whole field when nothing is selected:

• Sums get their answer: 12*3+4 becomes 12*3+4 = 40 (or just 40 with Keep the sum off).
• Measurements get the other unit: 5 km becomes 5 km (3.11 mi).
• Prices get your currency: 100 USD gets “(≈ …)” in your home currency.
• Links lose their tracking, and phone numbers get the international format.
• split 450 by 3 tip 10% becomes Each pays 165.
• Encoded messages are revealed, and doubled spaces are tidied.

When there is more than one change, you choose which to make. Undo appears after every change. Things already done (a sum that already has its answer) are left alone. Hold the wand to open the full Magic Clipboard panel for the text.

Live answers

While you type a sum such as 450/3, or split 450 by 3 tip 10%, the answer shows above the keys. Tap it to add it.

Encode, decode and change case

• Type a message and tap the crossed-out eye: it becomes ordinary sentences, ready to send, and is copied too.
• Hold the eye for Decode, and, in apps with a Send key, Encode and send.
• Aa changes the case: UPPER, lower, Title Case or Sentence case.

Typing

• Suggestions: the likeliest words show above the keys while you type, and after a space the words likely to come next. Tap one to use it.
• Autocorrect fixes slips such as teh, helo and dont when you finish a word. Press delete straight after to keep what you typed.
• Hold a key for the symbol in its corner. Hold a, c, e, i, n, o, s, u, y or z for accented letters (é, ñ, ü…), or the full stop for more punctuation; slide to the one you want and lift.
• Capitals at the start of a sentence, where the app you type in asks for them.
• Turn on a number row above the letters in Keyboard settings.
• Emoji: tap 😊 next to ?123. Pick a category at the bottom; ABC brings the letters back. Recent emoji are remembered only until the keyboard closes.

Keyboard settings

Settings → Keyboard (or the gear above the keys): show the toolbar, Live answers, Keep the sum, Also copy the encoded text, Word suggestions, Autocorrect, Capital at the start of a sentence, and Number row.

6. Other ways in

Select text, then Quick actions

Select text in any app, then tap Quick actions in the menu that appears (sometimes under the three-dot menu). No clipboard needed.

Share

In any app, tap Share and choose Magic Clipboard. Works for text, and for screenshots and photos: their text is read on your phone.

Quick Settings tile, widget and shortcut

• Tile: pull down Quick Settings, tap the pencil, and drag in Check clipboard. On Android 13 and later, Help has an Add Quick Settings tile button. There is a Scan screen tile too.
• Widget: long-press your home screen, choose Widgets, and add Magic Clipboard.
• Shortcut: long-press the app icon and choose Check clipboard.

7. Screenshots and Scan screen

• Share a screenshot to Magic Clipboard: the text in it appears in the panel.
• Scan screen (in the bubble's menu, or its tile) reads the text on your screen right now, even text you can't select. Android asks you to allow it every time, and only one picture is taken.
• Select any part of the text to copy it, or pick an action for what was found.

Detect screenshots is only in the version you download from this website, not the Google Play version. With it on (Settings → Screen and screenshots) and the bubble running, every new screenshot is read, saved to History, and the bubble glows. It needs access to your photos, and reads only new screenshots.

8. Encode and decode messages

Copy a message and tap Encode text in the bubble's menu or the panel (or use the eye on Magic Keyboard). “Meet at 5pm” becomes a few ordinary sentences you can send anywhere. Whoever gets them copies them and taps the bubble, and Magic Clipboard shows the message and copies it.

• Messages can be up to 500 characters.
• The sentences must arrive unchanged. If they are edited, autocorrected or translated, the message can't be revealed (you won't get garbage, just no message).
• It disguises; it doesn't lock. Anyone with Magic Clipboard can decode it, so don't use it for passwords or anything that must stay secret.

9. Watch notifications

Off unless you turn it on (Settings → Notifications → Watch notifications) and give Notification access. Then, when a message you receive contains a phone number, address, amount, date, link or encoded message, Magic Clipboard copies it to your clipboard (replacing what was there), saves it in History and makes the bubble glow. Its own notifications, ongoing and system notifications, calls and one-time codes are ignored. Nothing is sent anywhere. Turn it off in Settings, or remove Notification access.

10. History

The last 50 things you showed Magic Clipboard are on the home screen, newest first, kept on your phone only. Tap one to see its actions again, or use its three-dot menu to copy or delete it. Clear deletes them all. Private-looking text is never saved. Turn History off under Settings → History; turning it off deletes what was saved.

11. Settings

Clear all data deletes your history, resets your settings (including Watch notifications), forgets which actions you use most, deletes saved exchange rates and turns off the bubble.

12. Permissions

Copying text and tapping needs no permission at all. Everything else is only for the feature it names, and Settings → Permissions shows each one's state.

13. Troubleshooting

The bubble disappears after a while

Your phone is closing it to save battery. Open Settings → Permissions and allow Unrestricted battery use. Some phones need one more step:

• Xiaomi, Redmi, POCO: turn on Autostart for Magic Clipboard in App info.
• Samsung: make sure Magic Clipboard isn't under Battery → Background usage limits → Sleeping apps.
• Huawei, Honor: set Magic Clipboard to Manage manually under Battery → App launch.
• OPPO, realme, OnePlus: allow background activity and Auto launch in App info → Battery.
• vivo: allow high background power use in Battery settings.
• Sony: STAMINA mode can stop the bubble; add Magic Clipboard as an exception.

Opening the app also brings the bubble back if it was meant to be on.

The bubble doesn't glow when I copy

Android only tells the keyboard you are using that something was copied, so Glow when you copy works only while Magic Keyboard is your keyboard. Check Settings → When you copy. Without Magic Keyboard, just tap the bubble after you copy; it reads the clipboard then.

Android shows “pasted from your clipboard”

On Android 12 and later, Android shows this short notice whenever an app reads the clipboard. Magic Clipboard reads it once per copy and reuses what it read, so you see it at most once for each thing you copy. While Magic Keyboard is your keyboard, the notice doesn't appear.

“Quick actions” isn't in the text-selection menu

Look in the three-dot menu. Some apps use their own menu without it; use Share or copy and tap the bubble instead.

An action I expect is missing

Actions for apps you don't have installed aren't shown. Check Settings → What to look for in case that kind of text is switched off, and pick your Maps and Ride apps under Preferred apps.

The currency rate looks out of date

Rates update at most once a day when you are online; the panel shows the date of the rates it used. They are a guide, not a quote from your bank.

A message I received won't decode

The sentences must be exactly as sent. Ask for them to be copied again, without autocorrect or translation.

How do I switch away from Magic Keyboard?

Hold the space bar and choose another keyboard, or use Settings → Keyboard → Choose keyboard. To remove it, turn it off in Android's keyboard settings.

How do I delete everything?

Settings → Clear all data, or uninstall the app. Nothing is kept anywhere else: there is no account and no copy on our side.

Still stuck? Contact us. Please tell us your phone model and Android version, and never send us private text.