MacOS Image Pasting/placing doesn't work at all

Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Aug 27, 2025 by LuciferMornens Closed Nov 21, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.25

Which model were you using?

gpt-5

What platform is your computer?

_No response_

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Simply doesn't work at all. I tried pasting via several buttons, taking the image and adding it to chat, etc. nothing works / actually places the img itself. Only the path to img.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

What do you see instead?

_No response_

Additional information

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7 Comments

William2809 · 10 months ago

Mine also does not work at all it is pasting the URL path not the image.

<img width="482" height="202" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77d0221d-ed75-4e55-9e56-6d87273c6e00" />

Alfredo-Sandoval · 10 months ago

Does it work in a standalone terminal? In Linux and Windows copy paste/ drag and drop don't work in integrated terminals.

willsigmon · 10 months ago

+1 for this in Warp - was just trying this.

willsigmon · 10 months ago

Even in Terminal: <img width="995" height="712" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d264f82-bd32-478b-aeb8-28f21e9b5f70" />

LuciferMornens · 10 months ago

For me it doesnt work in any terminal. I tried all options lol.

tech-esa · 10 months ago

Same. Doesn't work at all on windows with wsl. Using windows terminal.

etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

I think this issue is no longer relevant. Closing.