The history will persist past a system restart so you have to be proactive about keeping it clean. You can remove individual items from your history. If you do copy sensitive information to the clipboard, make sure that you clear it out immediately. If you enable clipboard history on Windows 10, you need to take special care that you do not copy sensitive information to your clipboard. This isn’t a good idea, ever, but before the October 2018 update, it wasn’t as dangerous because Windows only remembered the last entry on your clipboard. Users tend to copy and paste sensitive information like logins, passwords, and even banking information to their clipboard. The clipboard can also be synced across devices but this option isn’t enabled by default. You can also delete it from the Clipboard tab in the Settings app. Speaking of which, you can clear your history by clicking the Clear all button on the clipboard history panel. Clicking it will exempt the item from being cleared when you clear your clipboard history. If you look closely at the panel, you will see that each item has a little pin icon on it. Scroll through it and click an item you want to paste again. A little panel will open that will list all items, images, and text, that you copied to your clipboard. To view your clipboard history, tap Windows logo key + V. Anything that you copied before enabling it will not appear. You can view clipboard history on Windows 10 from this point forward. Select the Clipboard tab, and turn on clipboard history.

Open the Settings app and go to the System group of settings.

The version should be 1809.īefore you can view clipboard history on Windows 10, you need to first enable it. First, make sure you’re on the October 2018 build by opening the run box, and typing winver in it.

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