{"id":365,"date":"2025-06-02T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=365"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:52:00","slug":"disable-clipboard-history-on-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Disable Clipboard History on Samsung Android Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default built-in Samsung keyboard maintains a clipboard history which cannot be easily disabled. Importantly, the Samsung keyboard collects clipboard history even if another keyboard is used! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The only way to prevent this is to use another keyboard and disable the keyboard via an ADB shell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To allow an ADB shell, you must enable <em>Developer options<\/em> in settings by repeatedly tapping the <em>Build number<\/em> under <em>Settings &gt; About phone &gt; Software information<\/em>. In the <em>Developer options <\/em>menu, enable USB debugging.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that Samsung drivers and ADB are installed. Plug in to computer via USB.<\/li>\n<li>Run the following commands to disable the Samsung keyboard (works on Samsung A55 w\/ Android 14 or 15):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>adb devices\r\nadb shell\r\npm list packages | grep honeyboard\r\npm disable-user com.samsung.android.honeyboard<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>To re-enable the Samsung Keyboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>adb shell\r\npm enable com.samsung.android.honeyboard<\/pre>\n<h4>References:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/galaxyzflip\/comments\/192519m\/cover_screen_tutorial_how_to_disable_samsung\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/galaxyzflip\/comments\/192519m\/cover_screen_tutorial_how_to_disable_samsung\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/samsunggalaxy\/comments\/mtakqq\/comment\/lk4qp8l\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/samsunggalaxy\/comments\/mtakqq\/comment\/lk4qp8l\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/android.stackexchange.com\/questions\/56620\/enable-and-disable-system-apps-via-adb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/android.stackexchange.com\/questions\/56620\/enable-and-disable-system-apps-via-adb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default built-in Samsung keyboard maintains a clipboard history which cannot be easily disabled. Importantly, the Samsung keyboard collects clipboard history even if another keyboard is used!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[24,59],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-android","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}