diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
index a64ef6a8..e32e8e6e 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
@@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ pub struct UiState {
     pub paste_event: bool,
     /// The window got the focus back since the last V release.
     pub refocused: bool,
-    /// The modifiers held, as of the last raw event that told: a paste event doesn't carry them.
+    /// The modifiers held, as of the last modifier change in the raw events: a paste event doesn't
+    /// carry them.
     pub held: egui::Modifiers,
     /// When (UI clock, seconds) open documents next get an autosave checkpoint.
     pub next_autosave: f64,
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/paste_image_tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/paste_image_tests.rs
index 23cec8ea..48bd142e 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/paste_image_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/paste_image_tests.rs
@@ -231,13 +231,11 @@ fn the_browser_sequence_pastes_once() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn v_alone_and_other_paste_commands_paste_nothing() {
+fn v_alone_pastes_nothing() {
     let mut w = Win::new();
     w.copy_image_elsewhere();
     w.frame(vec![key(Key::V, true, Modifiers::NONE)]);
     w.frame(vec![key(Key::V, false, Modifiers::NONE)]);
-    w.cmd_v(CMD.plus(Modifiers::SHIFT));
-    w.cmd_v(CMD.plus(Modifiers::ALT));
     assert_eq!(w.named("Pasted image"), 0);
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
index 57295c22..0a291a7c 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/shortcuts.rs
@@ -163,9 +163,6 @@ pub fn swallowed_paste(app: &mut FigApp, ctx: &Context) -> Swallowed {
     let mut out = Swallowed::default();
     ctx.input(|i| {
         for ev in &i.raw.events {
-            if let Event::Key { modifiers, .. } = ev {
-                ui.held = *modifiers;
-            }
             match ev {
                 Event::ModifiersChanged(m) => ui.held = *m,
                 // Without Cmd/Ctrl held it's another paste key (Shift+Insert, a Paste key).