How to save clipboard data from accessing insecure apps.

Shivashish Yadav
1 min readMar 24, 2020
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⚠️… If you want to enter some long pieces of text such as an address, password, or website link, using Android’s copy and paste feature certainly beats having to precisely type each character out. But Android’s clipboard is notoriously insecure because any app on your phone can read from it without your permission, so it’s generally recommended that you never copy any sensitive data …

… That’s exactly why so many password manager apps on Android recommend you use their keyboard when entering passwords — they want to protect you from apps that might steal your password from your clipboard …

🌐 Read “How to Stop Apps from Reading the Android Clipboard to Protect your Privacy”

💡 Another alternative, for more granular clipboard permission management, is XPrivacy — The Ultimate, Yet easy to use, Privacy manager → Link

AppOpsXposed → Link
Both need Xposed Framework → Click Here

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Shivashish Yadav
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Technical Writer, Software Engineer, Web Dev, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Expert