Controlling Clipboard Access

[FederationSigma]

I am getting notifications that an application is copying from my clipboard. I appreciate that we get a notification, but is there no way to limit clipboard access for certain applications? 

[RedDogRabbit · Accepted solution]

While it's convenient, and there's now at least a notification when apps have access to the Clipboard.

This is not ideal, but if you are familiar with adb, you can control them.

With your phone connected to your computer (with Platform-Tools installed), open Power Shell on your computer & (after having granted access to your phone),

Type this command into the adb command line:

cmd appops query-op --user 0 READ_CLIPBOARD

 This will list the apps that have access to the Clipboard.

Now note the package name of the app(s) that you want to prevent having access to your Clipboard, and then type this into the adb command line:

cmd appops set <packagename> READ_CLIPBOARD ignore

Like I said, it's not as easy as just denying the permission, but it works.

Hopefully Samsung / Google will make it easier in a future update. 

[FederationSigma]

Thank you! I'll try this later on today.

Definitely not ideal. Users should be able to control clipboard permissions just as easily as they can control camera or location permissions.

[Ray1]

Look under Settings, Privacy and you can shut off being notified

[FederationSigma]

Thanks for the reply! I had found that there it's not what I'd like. I want to revoke permissions entirely.

[RedDogRabbit]

Yeah I don't think that it's the Notification that is his concern, it's the actual access to personal information, like passwords, banking etc. 

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