Option to disable clipboard history on Samsung keyboard

[Tanglebrook]

Samsung Keyboard keeping a history of your clipboard, whether you use their keyboard or not, with no option to disable it, is a huge security issue. How is this issue still not fixed?

[ChaosSaber]

How huge?

[Tanglebrook]

Your passwords that you copy and intend to use once will be saved to a clipboard history that anyone on your phone can access without any protection past your lockscreen. And this can't be disabled.

[ILoveGabcom]

The only way to "copy" text is to keep it stored in a virtual clipboard. I empty my clipboard daily, but I also have things locked in there for certain things I say often (greetings in a different font, for example).
Your can turn on the option to be notified if any app accesses your clipboard however.

[Tanglebrook]

They need to keep the last entry stored (just like PC or Gboard), but not the last 50, giving people an easily accessible list of your passwords you can't turn off.

[Treesapp]

I had the G board on my tab, then switched over to the samsung keyboard and was shocked at everything it had inside the clipboard that it had kept from my G board. Bc I never cared much from the samsung keyboard, so had only used it until I was able to download the G board. Nothing was in my G board I kept it cleaned out.

[ChaosSaber]

Oh good thing I don't copy my passwords

[Members_RBMUgMU]

It's ridiculous anyone would think this 'feature' is a good idea. Every app on the phone can access the clipboard, making any passwords or sensitive information available. Any new cut or copy should overwrite the previous content. Having to manually delete the history is insane.

For those saying they don't use copy paste for passwords... your passwords aren't strong enough if you can just type them in. Additionally, key loggers will capture keystrokes, but not usually copied or auto-filled passwords.

I just got this s22 ultra a few days ago and was horrified to see passwords in the clipboard and appearing in the suggested words while typing. I think this is enough for me to return this phone and go with the Pixel. It's a shame as the integration between Samsung devices is so good.

[brunchero]

Android 12 introduced the setting to "Alert when clipboard accessed" with a short toast notification as mentioned above, but it's disabled by default (in my S23+).

Android 13 introduced the ability to delete sensitive data from the clipboard history after 60 minutes automatically - but sadly Samsung did not make it available in OneUI 5. The request was noted:

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Samsung-Apps-and-Services/Auto-Delete-Clipboard-History/m-p/2479...

(Maybe OneUI 6 Beta / Android 14 is different, but I am no beta tester to verify.)

Since I do not even use the Samsung Keyboard, it's a bit bumpy to access and clear the clipboard history manually in OneUI 5.

a) Switch the active keyboard to Samsung, clean up, switch back... or

b) Activate the Edge Panel "clipboard", that has a "clear" button.

Edit:

Also, if you use a password vault app like bitwarden, you should not copy&paste the passwords, but use the android autofill framework. Passwords transferred this way should not end up in the clipboard history.

[BimmelBammel]

thats so f** ridiculous , why the heck  i came back to samsung, i want to smash that S***