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Superwhisper delivers results by pasting at your cursor. When pasting goes wrong, the transcription itself is fine: it’s in History and on your clipboard. Each delivery problem below has a specific fix.

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Nothing pastes and the text is only in History

  1. Grant Accessibility permission (macOS): open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and enable Superwhisper. The app needs this permission to paste into other apps, and it’s the most common cause.
  2. Keep focus in the target field: Superwhisper pastes at the active cursor. If you click elsewhere while it processes, the paste has no target. The text stays on your clipboard; paste it manually.
  3. Some apps block synthetic pasting: secure fields, some terminals, and VMs. Enable Simulate Keypresses in advanced settings. It types the result key by key instead.

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Old clipboard content pastes instead

This comes from Clipboard behaviour being set to Restore clipboard in advanced settings. It puts your pre-dictation clipboard back after pasting. If the paste is slow or the target app reads the clipboard late, the app picks up the restored content instead of your dictation. Increase the Restore clipboard delay, or switch Clipboard behaviour away from restoring.

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Text pastes twice

This usually means two delivery paths fired at once:
  • If Simulate Keypresses is on and the target app also accepts the paste, you can get both. Turn Simulate Keypresses off for apps that paste normally.
  • If you press the shortcut twice while processing, both dictations paste in sequence. Check History to confirm what happened.
If neither applies, email support@superwhisper.com and name the app it happens in. Paste behavior is app-specific, and reports that name the app get fixed fastest.

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Auto-send fires when you didn’t want it

Hold Shift to Auto-Send simulates Return after pasting when you finish a dictation holding Shift. If messages send themselves, you’re holding Shift at the end of dictations. Turn the feature off in advanced settings if you don’t want it.