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How to paste clipboard content on the terminal?

iOS

  1. Show the contextual menu :
    1. Long press the terminal OR
    2. Tap the "..." ellipsis button
  2. Choose "Paste" menu item

macOS

  • Show the contextual menu (right click) and the choose the "Paste" menu item OR
  • Press Cmd + V OR
  • Press Cmd and press your left mouse button

Paste Special

The Paste Special submenu (contextual menu and "..." ellipsis button) offers :

  • Paste Password : paste the password of the current connection (⌥⌘P on the Mac)
  • Paste Slowly : send the clipboard in small chunks with a pause between them, for serial devices and retro computers that lose characters on a normal paste (⌥⌘V on the Mac)
  • Advanced Paste… : choose the chunk size and the delays before pasting (⌃⌥⌘V on the Mac)

See Paste Slowly for the details.1

  1. Paste Slowly and Advanced Paste require WebSSH 33.3 or later. ↩

Last update: October 31, 2026