iOS 27 adds a Paste suggestion above the iPhone keyboard. After you copy text, a link or a photo, it appears the next time you tap into a text field, with a preview of what you copied.
Nothing needs to be turned on, and this small iOS 27 change removes a few taps from something most iPhone owners do dozens of times a day.
A Paste Suggestion Appears Above the Keyboard After You Copy
The suggestion works the same way for text, links and photos, so the steps are the same for each. To copy selected text, tap the selection and tap Copy, or pinch closed with three fingers.
- Copy text, a link or a photo in any app.
- Open another app and tap inside a text field.
- Tap the Paste suggestion that appears above the keyboard.
Text and links show a preview of what is on the clipboard, and a photo appears as a small thumbnail, so you can confirm you are pasting the right item before you tap. If you copy something else, the suggestion updates to the new item. The suggestion appears when iOS detects something on the clipboard you may want to paste, and it gets out of the way when you do not need it.
Because the suggestion lives in the keyboard, it works across apps. You can copy a link in Safari and paste it into Messages, copy text from Mail into Notes, or move a photo into another app without opening the editing menu. The keyboard already surfaces one-time verification codes in a similar way, which arrived in iOS 12.
The Traditional Paste Methods Still Work Alongside It
The new suggestion does not replace the old ways to paste. You can still tap the insertion point and choose Paste from the menu that appears, or pinch open with three fingers to paste.
Universal Clipboard also keeps working, so something you copy on another Apple device can still be pasted on your iPhone.
The Shortcut Holds One Item and Keeps No Clipboard History
The suggestion shows only the most recently copied item, the same single item the iPhone clipboard has always held. There is no list of earlier copies to browse.
If you copy in bursts and need to go back to something from earlier, a dedicated clipboard app that saves a history fills that gap. For pasting what you just copied, the keyboard suggestion is the fastest route.
Our Take
My read is that this is the kind of small change that sticks, because it sits where you already look while typing. After a few days of using it, the long-press Paste menu starts to feel slow. It is not a clipboard manager, so anyone who juggles several copies at once will still want a separate app.
