Send text and files from Windows to iPhone — straight to the browser

You found the address on your laptop and you need it in Maps on your phone. You exported a PDF on the PC and want it on the iPhone to send in a chat. Apple doesn't make this easy from the Windows side — Handoff and Universal Clipboard are Apple-to-Apple only — so most people fall back to emailing or messaging themselves.

pastehere skips that. Open a room on the Windows PC, type the six-digit code into the same site in Safari on the iPhone, and whatever you copy on the PC is one tap away on the phone — links open in a browser, text drops straight into your clipboard, files download to the Files app.

How to do it in three steps

1. 1

   Open a room on your Windows PC

   Go to pastehere.app in any browser and create a room. You'll get a six-digit code — no sign-up, nothing to install.

2. 2

   Enter the code on your iPhone

   Open the same site on your iPhone and type the six-digit code to join. The two devices agree on a key directly, so the server never sees it.

3. 3

   Copy on one, paste on the other

   Add text, a link, a screenshot or a file on either device and it appears on the other within a second. The room stays open until you destroy it.

Everything is encrypted in your browser with AES-256 before it leaves the device. Devices agree on the room key through a PAKE exchange over the 6-digit code, so the key never reaches the server — it only ever stores ciphertext.

What you can send

Anything that fits in a room moves both ways between your Windows PC and your iPhone:

• TextNotes, passwords, addresses, long passages — no length limit.
• LinksOpen a tab on the other device with one tap.
• ImagesScreenshots and photos, kept at full quality.
• FilesPDFs, archives, any file type — up to 15 MB each, 100 MB per room.

The native options from Windows to iPhone

There's no built-in clipboard bridge from Windows to iOS. iCloud for Windows can push files into iCloud Drive if you've installed it and signed in, but that's a sync folder, not a quick hand-off, and Photos sync runs on Apple's schedule rather than the instant you need it. Phone Link can send a file to an iPhone since its late-2024 update, but only with a Microsoft account, the Link to Windows app installed on the phone, and a Bluetooth pairing.

If you already keep everything in iCloud Drive, dropping a file there and opening Files on the iPhone works. When you don't — or when the PC is a shared or work machine you'd rather not sign into iCloud on — a browser room is faster and leaves nothing behind.