<ul><li>Apple is introducing a feature in macOS 15.4 that alerts users when an app programmatically reads the general pasteboard.</li><li>New detect methods in NSPasteboard and NSPasteboardItem allow apps to examine pasteboard data without reading them and trigger alerts.</li><li>NSPasteboard now includes an accessBehavior property to control programmatic pasteboard access permissions.</li><li>Users can prepare for this by adopting the new APIs and enabling the behavior for their apps using a specific terminal command.</li></ul>

Pasteboard Privacy Preview in macOS 15.4

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