What is pboard on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
The clipboard service: holds what you copy so you can paste it elsewhere.
pboard provides pasteboard (clipboard) services. When you copy something, it's kept here until you paste. It also supports drag-and-drop. It's normally idle unless very large items are being copied.
- Category
- macOS system
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as pboard
Why is pboard using so much CPU or memory?
- Copying very large images, files or amounts of text
- Clipboard manager apps polling the clipboard
- Universal Clipboard syncing with an iPhone or iPad
What to do
- 1Copy something small to replace a huge clipboard item
- 2Quit clipboard manager apps to compare
- 3Restart your Mac
Safe to quit? With care.
It relaunches; whatever was on the clipboard is lost.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library