Autocomplete from your clipboard, when you want it.
Copy a name, a place or a booking. Turn on clipboard context and your next suggestion can use it. It’s off until you do.
Two switches: Window context, on by default, and Clipboard context. The reply “Let’s do” is offered “7pm” from the window on screen, and it’s taken. Then “at” is typed, the clipboard (holding a copied restaurant name) is switched on, and “Chez Mireille.” is offered from it and taken: “Let’s do 7pm at Chez Mireille.”
Copy, then type.
Switch it on once, then copy and keep typing.
Settings, Context: Include Window Context is on, and Include Clipboard Context is now on too.
Switch it on.
Clipboard context starts off. Turn it on in Settings, everywhere or for one app.
A booking confirmation, “Your table at Chez Mireille is booked.”, with “Chez Mireille” selected and copied.
Copy something.
A name, a place, a line from a booking. Whatever you’d otherwise retype.
In Messages, the reply “Let’s meet at” gets the suggestion “Chez Mireille.”, the place you copied.
It’s in the suggestion.
Start your reply and what you copied turns up in grey. Tab takes it.
Copy a name. Skip the spelling.
Copy Siobhán’s name from her email, then mention her in Slack. The suggestion spells it the way you copied it.
An email from Siobhán Ní Bhriain. Her name is selected and copied. In Slack, the reply “I’ll loop in” gets the suggestion “Siobhán Ní Bhriain.”, spelled the way it was copied, and Tab takes it.
On for one app, off for another.
Turn clipboard context on for Messages and leave it off for Slack, right from the menu bar.
Typeahead’s menu for Messages: Disable for Messages, Manage Messages…, Style: Friendly, Include Window Context (ticked), Include Clipboard Context, which gets ticked, and Learn from Messages (ticked).
What it uses.
Typeahead never sends your writing to a server.
Off by default. Nothing is read from your clipboard until you turn it on.
What you just copied. Your latest copy, up to 400 characters.
Secrets left out. Password-manager items and secret-looking text are skipped.
Never logged. What you copy isn’t written to a log.
Set per app. On for one app, off for another, from the menu bar.
With what’s on screen. It works alongside window context, which starts on.
In detail.
What it reads, what it skips, and where to turn it on.
What it reads.
When clipboard context is on, Typeahead looks at the text you most recently copied, up to about 400 characters, and gives it to the model on your Mac along with the words around your cursor. With window context on as well, the model sees both, so a reply can take the time from the thread and the place you copied.
What it leaves out.
Anything copied from a password manager, and other items marked as concealed, is skipped. So is text that looks like a secret, such as a key or a one-time code. What you copy is never written to a log, and Typeahead stays off in password fields whatever is on your clipboard. More on that on the privacy page.
Where to switch it on.
To use it everywhere, turn on Include Clipboard Context in Settings › Advanced. For one app, pick it in Settings › Apps, or tick Include Clipboard Context in that app’s submenu in Typeahead’s menu bar menu. What you copied then turns up in the same grey autocomplete suggestion as everything else, in your Mac apps.
Common questions
Yes, once you turn on clipboard context. Typeahead then uses the text you most recently copied, up to about 400 characters, as extra context for its next suggestion, so a name, a place or a reference you copied can turn up as you type. It’s off by default, and it’s all worked out on your Mac.
No. It stays off until you turn it on, in Settings › Advanced, or per app from the menu bar. Window context, which reads the text of the window you’re in, is a separate switch and is on by default.
Typeahead skips items copied from password managers and other items marked as concealed, and leaves out text that looks like a secret, such as a key or a code. It also stays off in password fields, and what you copy is never logged.
Yes. What you copy is read and used on your Mac, by the model on your Mac. Typeahead’s only network activity is license activation, a license check when the app starts, optional update checks and the one-time model download.
Yes. Open Settings › Apps, pick the app and switch on Include Clipboard Context, or tick it in that app’s submenu in Typeahead’s menu bar menu. The rest keep your default.
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Reads the window you’re in.
Suggestions that fit what's in the window.
Learns how you write.
Your go-to lines, back after a couple of words.
Autocomplete in Slack.
Replies in threads and DMs, in your style.
