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If you are pasting into an email, the image might be too high-resolution for the recipient's server. Try saving it as a JPEG first to compress it. Are you on a work computer with restricted settings?

Electron (used by VS Code, Slack, Discord) allows deeper OS integration.

Here is a robust snippet for a Web App that takes a pasted screenshot, compresses it, and prepares it for upload: how to paste screen shot

React Native handles this somewhat automatically in TextInput , but for custom image handling, you need specific libraries like expo-clipboard or @react-native-community/clipboard .

// 4. Do something with the blob (e.g., display it) handleImageBlob(blob); return; If you are pasting into an email, the

function dataURLtoBlob(dataurl) var arr = dataurl.split(','), mime = arr[0].match(/:(.*?);/)[1], bstr = atob(arr[1]), n = bstr.length, u8arr = new Uint8Array(n); while(n--) u8arr[n] = bstr.charCodeAt(n);

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import * as Clipboard from 'expo-clipboard'; import useState from 'react';