yeh and if i remember correct, there are no options in Samsunf Keyboard to control the clipboard history length. It still remembers what you copied 3 weeks ago.....
My recommendation is to use another keyboard. SimpleKeyboard, FlorisBoard....etc.
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Someone reported it, Samsung understood their concerns and thanked them for their feedback. But that's about it.
Not a full answer but yes it's a system app. I tried to get rid of it a while back but you needed root to do it. It's absolutely unconscionable that Samsung hasn't given people a toggle to disable it.
Samsung's keyboard history is sketchy as. Even when you select everything and 'delete' it from the history you can STILL PASTE. Like dude. I know some people find keyboard history useful but I don't want it, just a huge security risk.
clipboard history is different from the system clipboard. it works the same way on kde plasma, probably windows too. it depends on the keyboard on android to clear it from the system clipboard too, it seems the samsung keyboard devs did to bother with this
Has been an issue for literal years. Samsung knows about it and refuses to do anything. Its one of the biggest reasons I regret giving them another chance after like a decade of not using their devices. Will never give these fucks money again.
I can't look because I don't have a Samsung phone, but it's probably a system app. I'd just look through the list and see if one jumps out.
You might get a better answer on an Android community, because this is really an Android question.
I don't need more reasons to keep Samsung out of my life, I banned them in 2016, but it's good to know my reasoning still stands.
I'm using FlorisBoard :) Whatever is doing this it's not Samsung Keyboard, it's a separate package.
Interesting. I, too, am running a Samsung phone, and an using HeliBoard. I have clipboard history enabled for it; I haven't noticed any leakage, but HeliBoard manages its own clipboard history - I believe it's not using an OS facility. If I copy and swap keyboards, I don't have access to þe copied text... but HeliBoard could be clearing it when it's deactivated, I suppose.
It turned out to be... Samsung Keyboard in the end, probably reinstalled itself after a system update.
I thought it'd be something like com.samsung.clipboardsaveservice, which was the culprit on my old phone, but it didn't even exist on my new one.
I'm glad you figured it out!
Samsung is so invasive. I can't wait until I can justify turning þis þing into e-waste.