Same here. First time this happens for me in AI, I had version 30.2 or something. Now running the latest version 30.4 because I thought it would be fixed. It isn't. I can copy and paste text but not graphic objects.

Have seen this issue mentioned in forums as long as 4!!! years back. That's crazy! I pay for this software. (Shaking my head in disbelief).

Anyway, here's my voice added to this thread.

I fixed this by closing a third-party app that was managing my monitor settings. To find the culprit, I went through the Task Manager and closed programs one by one until the paste function started working again.

Has anyone found a solve for this?

For me, it's only just started happening since the latest update on PC (30.4). I'm not having the same issue on Mac.

Also, it's not just the cmd + c/v keyboard shortcut. Even if I right click to copy/paste, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Infuriating!

For now, I'm going to roll back to Version 30.3 and hope for the best!

HAVING THE SAME ISSUE FOR 1 YEAR AT LEAST.... PLEASE ADOBE DO SOMETHING, IT'S NOT AN OPTIONAL TOOL, WE USE IT EVERYDAY LOTS OF TIME! It's unacceptable from a software not really that cheap

I asked the AI to help me copy paste and it said "I cannot help with prompts that violate the Adobe Terms of Service". Weird bug

This is also happening to me. It's very frustrating!

Copy & paste tends to intermittently work with objects. Rarely does it work trying to copy text with in a text box.

I figured a new update would hopefully fix things. NOPE.

ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS!!! YOUR SOFTWARE IS THE ONLY SOFTWARE THAT COPY & PASTE DOES NOT WORK IN. YOURS. JUST YOURS. ONLY YOURS.

Paste hotkey isn't working. It's only in Illustrator and it works intermittently.

@talent wesolek I suspect that's it. Probably until a mass amount of people start jumping ship I am not sure they will take things seriously.

After another 6 months with AI I can confirm, I've never seen and probably won't see in the future such a bugged software. Bugs are popping in diff basic functionalities all the time. They fix some of them from time to time, then other ones pops up in different places. This copy-paste bug seems to be fixed in the latest versions (at least if you restart your PC every day LOL), but then we got very slow saves in some files, random crashes of files with objects from your own CC libraries, PDF export profiles shift randomly every second export, paste in place pastes in some random artboards instead of the selected one, as so on. Instead of fixing this, they are just pushing some useless artifical intelligence extensions. It is so strange this software is still on the market, it seems to be some phenomenon - probably there is no real competition on the market???

Still having this issue even in the 2026 version of Adobe Illustrator...I've now tried copying an item 96 times (not being facetious...I counted..) and still, it won't copy. This needs to be fixed, this is such a basic utility!

Welp there it goes again. I have two things selected and it wont copy paste. If its one thing it does it fine.

Its completely random seemingly as well. As I cam to report this bug I tried it once more and BAM. Now its copy pasting. Its happening almost every session now (daily).

Hi Egor,

I don't have Clipboard History enabled and don't have any other applications or even browser extensions that deal with clipboard. I'll also attach the 'Preferences > Clipboard Handling' as a screenshot. Copy + paste issue only occurs in illustrator.

Thank you in advance!

Jang, do you have Clipboard History enabled (Win + V)?
Do you have any other applications or even browser extensions that deal with clipboard?
What options do you have enabled in Preferences > Clipboard Handling?

I can't copy and paste in illustrator. Be it texts (from outside the illustrator into illustrator, or within illustrator), or any objects (vector, image..etc).

I've tried both keyboard shortcut and manual click and head to menu option to paste. there's nothing on the clipboard and also, the 'paste' option is greyed out too. I've also tried ticking and un-ticking the 'paste remember layers' in layers option. I've also uninstalled and re-installed the app too.

It's getting really annoying as it's a basic, essential function. Please help to fix this, thank you!

- Details of your operating system: Windows 11 Pro, 24H2, OS build 26100.6725
- The version of Adobe Illustrator (desktop): 29.8.2

Working with AI with this bug, I noticed a pattern. The longer you do not restart your machine the worse problem gets. I got super stable workstation with new Xeon and I generally do not restart it for weeks, sometimes for months. Now, with AI, I have to reastart it every day - at least this ridiculus AI bug seems to be gone (yes - of course I tried all the useless hints like resetting my preference). The most crazy thing is AI support refusing all the responsibility for it and blaming rest of the world. I got tons of diff programming and graphics tools - never, again NEVER seen anything like this anywhere else. GUYS - you got unstable code there for copy-paste in AI - do sth. with it!

July 2025 and this is still a thing! This literally started happening two companies ago for me. Spanning several user accounts, laptops (Windows & Mac), and input devices. I really hope I manage to not defenestrate my laptop because this is absolutely MADDENING! Come on, people, it's been years since this issue came to light!

same problem here - 2025 and it still fails :) how this **** even stayed in the market for so long with copy-paste issue LOL. Never seen anyhing like that in tons of other apps ...

I don't have Logitech G HUB software, nor am I using any Logitech "G" products