Cut (not Copy) loses text on Android — clipboard empty after cutting

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Open any note

  2. Select text

  3. Cut (via long-press context menu → Cut)

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Y

Expected result

Text is removed from the note and available in the clipboard for pasting.

Actual result

Text is removed from the note but is completely lost — the clipboard remains empty. The text cannot be pasted anywhere.

Additional information

Copy works correctly: selected text is available in clipboard and can be pasted. The issue is specific to Cut. Tested in another app (Dropbox text editor) on the same device — Cut works correctly there. This suggests the issue is with Obsidian’s editor on Android, not with the system clipboard or keyboard.

Environment

Obsidian version: 1.12.7 (303)
Operating system: Android (Samsung Galaxy A54 5G)
Keyboard: Samsung Keyboard (default)

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There is a somewhat similar BR here about copy.

In that BR, the text didn’t appear in the keyboard clipboard but pasting worked.
We narrowed it down to a specific bug of Samsung Keyboard.

Can you post a screen recording of trying cutting from a new vault in obsidian and pasting to chrome?

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Thanks for the tip. I made a screen recording and the situation is more nuanced than I initially described:

After cutting text in Obsidian, the text does not appear in Samsung Keyboard’s clipboard manager — neither in Obsidian nor in Chrome. However, when I open Chrome and tap the search field, I can see the cut text appearing as a suggestion (“text you copied”). Selecting it pastes the text correctly.

So the text is not actually lost — it exists in memory and can be pasted via the suggestion. It just doesn’t show up in the clipboard manager’s visual history. This seems closely related to the Copy bug you linked.

I can’t upload the recording (mp4 greyed out, no links allowed yet) — but it shows exactly what I described above.

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This is the same problem as the other thread I linked above.