I'm currently working on an app that has a chat feature. As part of this feature, I want to enable pasting images from the clipboard in order to send them as a message. I overrode canPerformAction to allow pasting when the pasteboard has any images. override func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool { if UIPasteboard.general.hasImages { return true } else { return super.canPerformAction(action, withSender: sender) } } Then I overrode paste method to get the image from UIPasteboard and send the message. override func paste(_ sender: Any?) { if let image = UIPasteboard.general.image { if let data = UIPasteboard.general.data(forPasteboardType: kUTTypeGIF as String) { sendImageMessage(data, imageName: "Clipboard image.\(image.fileType())") } else if let data = image.jpegData(compressionQuality: 0.9) { sendImageMessage(data, imageName: "Clipboard image.\(image.fileType())") } return } super.paste(sender) } The code works fine if I copy an image from Photos, but when I tried pasting an image that I copied before on Safari what is pasted is the image URL. Any idea bout how to fix that issue? I've made some research but I couldn't find anything about it.