Clipboard issues with simulators

Thanks for the post. This is interesting now you can't copy and paste from the same machine to the simulator? Before we file a bug, can you try something for me?

Open your Mac Terminal. Paste and run this command:

xcrun simctl spawn booted launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.pboard

Try pasting in the Simulator again.

Let me know the results.

Thanks,

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Hi. I am facing this issue as well.

Tried this out and I am getting this as a response:

xcrun simctl spawn booted launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.pboard
Could not find service "com.apple.pboard" in domain for system

Upon further investigation, if you copy something within the simulator and try to paste it, it works within the context of the simulator. However, when u try to paste text you copied from the mac it doesn't get carried forward to the simulator and instead pastes what you copied earlier on the simulator.

I have tried the 'Automatically Sync Pasteboard' option under Edit in simulator as well but to no avail.

If i run the terminal commands as well to paste from the simulator's uuid like the following:

xcrun simctl pbpaste 99D03E66-6DA6-40AC-8E9F-98874D8F6464
xcrun simctl pbcopy 99D03E66-6DA6-40AC-8E9F-98874D8F6464
simulator copy

It would only paste what I wrote within the simulator.

This happens on iOS 26.4 simulators after updating to xCode 26.4

I got this output

Could not find service "com.apple.pboard" in domain for system

for xcrun simctl spawn booted launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.pboard

Is there anything we can do?

Same issue for me. Was working on 26.3 yesterday.

Thank you for your posts. While the script was definitely a long shot, considering that I have not used that script for some time, I believe this thread warrants a bug filing as looks like is happening to all of you.

I would appreciate it if one of you could file a bug report and provide the FB number here.

If you have any questions about filing a bug report, take a look at Bug Reporting: How and Why?

Lets get it resolved as fast as possible.

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Just wanted to confirm that I am experiencing this copy/paste problem as well after updating to 26.4.

I've tried disabling and enabling the pasteboard sync, restarting the simulator, reinstalling 26.4 iOS version, restarting my MacBook. None of it works.

I also get the following output for the command suggested by @DTS Engineer

xcrun simctl spawn booted launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.pboard

Could not find service "com.apple.pboard" in domain for system

I hope this will get a high priority because this makes my work a lot more tedious.

Same issue here. Will downgrade until fixed.

@eddyvinck Yes definitely a horrible experience working with simulators. Lets get the ball rolling fast and file a bug so that issue can be resolved quickly.

Thanks

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.