How to Access and Clear Clipboard on Android Phone [Latest]

– "I use a wallet password keeper that can copy passwords to the clipboard. Now I want to disable this feature. But I have no idea how to clear clipboard on Android phone…"

– "How do I clear clipboard contents on Samsung Galaxy S7? I'm running the official non-rooted ROM based on Android 4.4.2 KitKat."

– "I'm trying to clear clipboard on Android tablet. Any idea of where I should start?"

When you are reading this article, definitely you want to access and clear clipboard contents from your Android phone. Actually, all your online searching activities will be recorded by the Android system automatically.

With these or those reasons, if you have the need to clear clipboard history, then you just come to the right place. This article offers systematic solutions about clearing clipboard on Android phone and tablet. Thus, you can read and get solutions of Android clear clipboard programmatically here.

• Part 1. What is Clipboard on Android
• Part 2. How Do I Find My Clipboard on My Phone
• Part 3. How to Clear Clipboard on Android Programmatically
• Part 4. How to Fix Clipboard Crash Problem
• Part 5. FAQs About Accessing and Clearing Clipboard on Android

Part 1. What is Clipboard on Android

Clipboard is a temporary platform to store your copied content. When you copy something on your Android phone including links, texts and images, it will be stored to clipboard by default. And the clipboard history can be covered by the latest copied items. In another word, all older items you copied to clipboard will be gone automatically. Later, you are able to paste the quick copy remained in Android clipboard easily. Well, this is the basic knowledge you should learn before you start to clear clipboard history on Android.

Part 2. How Do I Find My Clipboard on My Phone

Many people do not know how to access the Android clipboard. If you hold the same question, then you can read the following paragraphs to solve the problem with ease.

Step 1Launch text messages app on Android

Turn on your Android phone or tablet. Later, open text message app on your digital device. You can see different names on different Android models like Messages, Messenger, Text Messages and Android Messages.

Step 2Create a new text message

Tap the add button on the top right corner of your screen. Then you can enter into a new text message page. Hold and press the blank message field. You can see Paste and Clipboard options.

Step 3Access the clipboard on your Android phone

Before clearing clipboard on Android phone, you can choose Paste to check the recent clipboard content. Well, click Clipboard to find all available items.

Alternatively, you can access clipboard in other messaging or chatting apps as well, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts.

Part 3. How to Clear Clipboard on Android

Just as above mentioned, you have accessed all Android clipboard contents already. During this time, you can do few clicks to clear clipboard Android tablet entirely or individually.

Step 1Locate Android clipboard clear options

After you have found the clipboard content, click the Clear button on the lower right corner. You can see two options of Delete from clipboard and Lock to clipboard.

Step 2Clear clipboard on Android phone programmatically

Choose Delete from clipboard to delete a clipboard item from your Android phone. If you want to clear all Android clipboard contents, then you can click Delete All option on the top of the clipboard directly.

In addition, you can pin clips to the top of your clipboard. And you can also long press and drag up or down the certain clip in the clipboard collection manually.

Part 4. How to Fix Clipboard Crash Problem

There are many Android users complain their clipboard with ClipboardSaveService keeps stopping issue. For instance, Samsung Galaxy devices are easily running into overcrowded clipboard issues. As a result, the Android phone will reboot or even stuck to the certain screen for a long time. Thanks to the combination of Touch Wiz software, Android 3.0 or higher and keyboards do a better job than the original Samsung keyboard. Thus, you can reduce the possibility of Samsung Galaxy clipboard crash problems by updating. So you can get one more way to solve the problem instead of clearing clipboard on Android phone only.

Actually, every keyboard has its own folder created by the Android operating system. In most cases, you cannot access non-Samsung keyboard folders without rooting. And these folders can get crashed easily. Fortunately, this problem can be solved by an OTA (Over the Air) technical software update. Therefore, once you run into the Samsung clipboard crash problem, you can update to the latest version to have a try first.

However, if your Android phone is bricked because of the clipboard crash, you can try Apeaksoft Broken Android Data Extraction to fix your phone and restore your precious data.