Below, we’ll break down three different approaches to the copy and paste not working problem. The way to fix a stuck clipboard in macOS is to essentially find that specific process and restart it. Terminal is perhaps the fastest and the most precise way to deal with copy paste not working: You can do so in two ways: either by using Terminal or Activity Monitor.Launch Terminal from your Application ➙ Utilities folder.The pboard process is what’s running the clipboard on Mac, and this command will force it to shut down. If you don’t feel comfortable using Terminal, there’s another, more user friendly way to restart pboard with Activity Monitor: But as you can’t run a Mac without clipboard, pboard will automatically restart and hopefully be functional.Launch Activity Monitor from the same Utilities folder.Find the pboard process (you can use search in the top bar).Select pboard and click the Stop icon in the top bar.It’s quite unlikely that neither of these options are going to work, but if that’s the case for you, you can always try to restart your Mac completely to reset all the system processes.
In rare cases, stopping the pboard process either with Terminal, or Activity Monitor, or Mac restart won’t help fix the Mac clipboard not working. That’s because the issue can be hidden within a corrupted file somewhere in macOS itself.
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