diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/vortex/a3/core/clipboard/ShareReceiverActivity.kt b/android/app/src/main/java/com/vortex/a3/core/clipboard/ShareReceiverActivity.kt
index 4039105..add4677 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/com/vortex/a3/core/clipboard/ShareReceiverActivity.kt
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/vortex/a3/core/clipboard/ShareReceiverActivity.kt
@@ -10,13 +10,18 @@ import android.widget.Toast
 import com.vortex.a3.service.VortexService
 
 /**
- * Share-sheet target: the user picks "Vortex" when sharing one or more files
- * (any type) to the laptop — instant-share style. The files arrive as granted
- * `content://` URIs in the intent (no focus trick needed). Each is read and
- * handed to [VortexService] as a FILE; the laptop saves them to Downloads (NOT
- * the clipboard). Handles both single (`ACTION_SEND`) and multi
- * (`ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE`) shares — file managers use the latter for a
- * multi-selection, which is why a SEND-only filter never appeared.
+ * Share-sheet target: the user picks "Vortex" when sharing to the laptop —
+ * instant-share style. Three kinds of share, in priority order:
+ *
+ *  1. text containing a URL  → browsing handoff (the laptop opens the page),
+ *  2. any attachment         → FILE to the laptop's download folder,
+ *  3. plain text             → the laptop's CLIPBOARD.
+ *
+ * Files arrive as granted `content://` URIs in the intent (no focus trick
+ * needed) and are handed to [VortexService] as FILEs. Handles both single
+ * (`ACTION_SEND`) and multi (`ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE`) shares — file managers use
+ * the latter for a multi-selection, which is why a SEND-only filter never
+ * appeared.
  */
 class ShareReceiverActivity : Activity() {
 
@@ -49,6 +54,28 @@ class ShareReceiverActivity : Activity() {
             else -> emptyList()
         }
 
+        // Shared plain TEXT (no URL in it, so the handoff above passed) → the
+        // laptop's CLIPBOARD, via the same bus the Quick Settings tile uses, so
+        // it inherits the cap + chunking + per-peer send. Without this, a text
+        // share fell through to the file loop below with nothing to read and
+        // died on "Couldn't read the shared file(s)" — the manifest advertises
+        // text/plain, so Vortex offers itself for text and must honour it.
+        //
+        // Guarded on `uris.isEmpty()`: a share can carry a caption ALONGSIDE an
+        // attachment (EXTRA_TEXT + EXTRA_STREAM), and there the file is the
+        // payload the user meant.
+        if (uris.isEmpty() && intent?.action == Intent.ACTION_SEND) {
+            val text = intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT)?.trim()
+            if (!text.isNullOrEmpty()) {
+                VortexService.clipboardBus.tryEmit(text)
+                Log.i(TAG, "share: forwarded ${text.length} chars to the laptop clipboard")
+                Toast.makeText(this, "Sending text to laptop…", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
+                finish()
+                overridePendingTransition(0, 0)
+                return
+            }
+        }
+
         var sent = 0
         for (uri in uris) {
             val file = ClipboardFileReader.read(this, uri)
diff --git a/linux/ui-tauri/src-tauri/src/clipboard_sync.rs b/linux/ui-tauri/src-tauri/src/clipboard_sync.rs
index 996612d..13f1611 100644
--- a/linux/ui-tauri/src-tauri/src/clipboard_sync.rs
+++ b/linux/ui-tauri/src-tauri/src/clipboard_sync.rs
@@ -259,10 +259,28 @@ pub(crate) fn spawn_clipboard_sync(
                     *g = sync_sig(&text);
                 }
                 let t2 = text.clone();
-                let _ = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || set_system_text(t2)).await;
+                // Never swallow the apply error: "the phone's text didn't show
+                // up in my clipboard" is indistinguishable from "it never
+                // arrived" without this, and the two have nothing in common to
+                // debug. (The image path below has always logged its failures.)
+                let applied = match tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || set_system_text(t2)).await {
+                    Ok(Ok(())) => true,
+                    Ok(Err(e)) => {
+                        tracing::warn!("clipboard: phone text NOT applied: {e}");
+                        false
+                    }
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        tracing::warn!("clipboard: apply task join: {e}");
+                        false
+                    }
+                };
+                // Still kept in history even if the system clipboard refused it,
+                // so the text is at least reachable from the Super+V popup.
                 store_capture("text", Some(text), None);
                 let _ = app.emit("vortex:clipboard", ());
-                tracing::info!("clipboard: synced from phone");
+                if applied {
+                    tracing::info!("clipboard: synced from phone");
+                }
             }
         });
     }