I have to downgrade to 26.2 for copy paste to work again in the simulator. Infuriating bug. Impossible to type generated passwords by hand into the simulator.

Same here. I haven't had any issues prior to updating to 26.4. I had to go back to the 26.2 simulator to get copy paste working again. Insanely infuriating. Does anyone use copy paste on the simulator team?

It seems like this is an ongoing issue and its driving me insane as well! Here is so more context about others whom are experiencing the issue.

Sharing that I ran into the same issue, using IVPN on both devices, my Mac and iPhone. @patras's answer seems to have fixed it for me! I had to turn off the VPN on both iPhone and Mac in order for the device to properly register via USB, which seems odd to me since there's a direct connection.