Clipboard Text Not Working in Shortcuts

I use shortcuts to send clipboard text in individual messages to a list of people. The shortcut has worked beautifully until the update to MacOS 27 and iOS 27. Now, the clipboard text does not get sent as text. It now gets sent as an attachment. All of my shortcuts are now useless since they no longer do what they were designed to do. Is there a fix for this?

Posted on Sep 20, 2026 4:46 AM

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VikingOSX

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Sep 20, 2026 5:56 AM in response to chriswilliamsde

Yeah, this has changed in macOS 27. If you have the free (or paid) BBEdit installed, you can pull this stunt where that Precompose Unicode Text is just one of the many BBEdit text transforms you can apply:

and that sends a real text message to the recipient(s) based on text already on the clipboard:

Instead of that Transform action, I tried the Text action and that did not work to send text into the Send action. I tried the Google AI suggested Append to Clipboard action and that was worthless too. I even tried using a Run Shell Script and printing "$(pbpaste -Prefer txt)" and that did not work either.