Hand Off still not working on MacOS?

A fast way to check on your system and fix it in 30 seconds!

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TL;DR

If you confirm your system meets the requirements for hand off on MacOS, and the function still doesn’t work. Use these commands in your terminal to check for your system:

If you don’t know what is terminal, please open up your launchpad and search “Terminal” and I believe it will show up the app.

Step1: Confirm the activation

defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd.plist ClipboardSharingEnabled

If the output is “0”, it means your MacOS doesn’t activate the clipboard sharing and that’s why you cannot copy the content from one of your Apple device to another.

Step2: Revise the parameter and… Shazam!

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd.plist ClipboardSharingEnabled 1

This step activates the functionality and there you go! Now, you can try if the functionality works between your Apple devices.

Special thanks to Bonyo Bonev who provides the tutorial on YouTube.

If it is still not working, please finds this post on Reddit. It provides an explicit instruction to check all of your current status on your Mac. Thanks to the community!

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Note:

VPN might incur the malfunction so please check your VPN setting in Network to see if you turn it down.

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo28uXEbGmA&list=LL&index=2&ab_channel=BonyoBonev

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