apple-text-pasteboard

To sanitize rich-text formatting during paste in UITextView or NSTextView, you intercept the paste operation to strip unwanted attributes from the attributed string, ensuring consistent visual styling. This process standardizes pasted content for predictable text editing.

NSItemProvider integration for custom pasteboard types allows your app to define and read internal data formats reliably. It supports modern paste, drag, and drop flows across iOS and macOS by securely exchanging custom data between app components.

Yes, you can paste images as NSTextAttachment and scale them to fit the text container. This image and attachment handling approach ensures pasted media integrates smoothly without disrupting the surrounding text flow or layout.

The best way to handle undo-safe editing when modifying text storage is to wrap paste handling operations within undo grouping APIs. This ensures that sanitized paste actions can be cleanly undone or redone by the user.

Pasted content carries unwanted formatting in Apple text editors because clipboard data often retains source attributes. You standardize this by implementing rich-text sanitization to strip or preserve select attributes, ensuring clean and consistent editing behavior.