![]() Unfortunately - but not unexpectedly - Apple rejected that Pastebot update, so this workaround never actually shipped with Pastebot. ![]() You can finally copy from your Mac or on your iPhone without having to open Pastebot after each copy. This would use one of Apple’s backgrounding APIs that allows music to play in the background. The idea is to have a silent audio clip play in the background. All we want is to make Pastebot work in the way we always intended it to. It was a bit of a gamble, but it did not use any private API’s. As explained on the Tapbots blog:Ībout a week later (after iOS4’s release), Paul came up with an idea that would actually allow Pastebot to run in the background. My favorite Mac clipboard manager Pastebot actually began life as an iOS app, and over ten years ago (!!) its developers came up with a creative workaround for this problem. For Clip to work though, it needs to continuously listen for clipboard changes, which (unsurprisingly) doesn’t work when suspended.Īs it turns out, I’m not the first person to try and make an iOS clipboard manager that can run in the background. There is simply no official way for apps to run indefinitely in the background when you leave an app, it is suspended in the background to save energy. ![]() The first problem dates all the way back to iOS 4 when multitasking was first introduced. …but wait, if I didn’t want to launch AltStore with just one app, why did I wait till now to launch Clip? Well about that…turns out, getting to this point was much more effort than I ever expected □ So if you’re interested in the many challenges I had to overcome while developing Clip, the rest of this blog post is for you □ Challenge 1: Run Clip in Background Indefinitelyĭue to iOS restrictions on what apps are allowed to do, there were two crucial pieces of functionality I needed to find workarounds for in order for Clip to be a “real” clipboard manager: As with all my AltStore apps, the complete Clip source code is available on GitHub, so you’re also welcome to compile it yourself with Xcode if you’d prefer. If you’ve been wanting a true clipboard manager for iOS as much as I have, give Clip a try! Just like Delta, you can download Clip directly from the “Browse” tab of AltStore. ![]() Save text, URLs, and images copied to the clipboard.Monitor clipboard even when Clip is in background.This means Clip most likely does not have the breadth of features you’d find in an App Store clipboard manager, but what it does do, no App Store app can match (yet?). Unfortunately, despite working just fine these workarounds are all against App Store rules…which is what makes Clip perfect for AltStore □Ĭlip’s main (and only) screen, displaying all your recent clippings.įor this initial version, I’ve really focused on the core experience of Clip running in the background and saving all clippings. Normally this would be impossible without jailbreaking, but Clip uses several workarounds to achieve this functionality within the constraints imposed by iOS. However, if I was going to launch a whole app store and frame it as such, surely there needs to be more than just one app in there, right?Ĭlip is a clipboard manager for iOS that can run in the background indefinitely, listening for changes to the clipboard and saving your clippings for later use. I originally built AltStore as a way to distribute Delta, but soon pivoted towards a more general distribution platform for all sideloadable apps. One year ago, I was preparing for the upcoming launch of AltStore - my attempt at building an alternative App Store for non-jailbroken devices ( maybe you’ve heard of it).
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