diff --git a/apps/studio/package.json b/apps/studio/package.json
index 95e84fac9f..68ba874c68 100644
--- a/apps/studio/package.json
+++ b/apps/studio/package.json
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 		"@wp-playground/blueprints": "3.1.45",
 		"cli-table3": "^0.6.5",
 		"date-fns": "^4.1.0",
-		"electron": "43.4.1",
+		"electron": "44.1.1",
 		"electron-devtools-installer": "^4.0.0",
 		"electron-vite": "6.0.0-beta.1",
 		"immer": "^11.0.1",
diff --git a/apps/studio/src/tests/text-context-menu.test.ts b/apps/studio/src/tests/text-context-menu.test.ts
index 73feba0165..401f49e0d6 100644
--- a/apps/studio/src/tests/text-context-menu.test.ts
+++ b/apps/studio/src/tests/text-context-menu.test.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
 vi.mock( 'electron', () => ( {
 	BrowserWindow: { fromWebContents: vi.fn() },
 	Menu: { buildFromTemplate: vi.fn() },
-	clipboard: { availableFormats: vi.fn(), writeText: vi.fn() },
+	clipboard: { has: vi.fn(), writeText: vi.fn() },
 } ) );
 
 function makeContext( overrides: Partial< TextContextMenuContext > = {} ): TextContextMenuContext {
@@ -239,11 +239,13 @@ describe( 'buildTextContextMenuTemplate', () => {
 } );
 
 describe( 'hasTextClipboardFormat', () => {
-	it( 'detects normalized and native plain-text formats without reading clipboard contents', () => {
-		expect( hasTextClipboardFormat( [ 'text/plain' ] ) ).toBe( true );
-		expect( hasTextClipboardFormat( [ 'text/plain;charset=utf-8' ] ) ).toBe( true );
-		expect( hasTextClipboardFormat( [ 'public.utf8-plain-text' ] ) ).toBe( true );
-		expect( hasTextClipboardFormat( [ 'image/png' ] ) ).toBe( false );
+	it( 'detects plain text without reading clipboard contents', async () => {
+		vi.mocked( clipboard.has ).mockResolvedValue( true );
+		await expect( hasTextClipboardFormat() ).resolves.toBe( true );
+		expect( clipboard.has ).toHaveBeenCalledWith( 'text/plain' );
+
+		vi.mocked( clipboard.has ).mockResolvedValue( false );
+		await expect( hasTextClipboardFormat() ).resolves.toBe( false );
 	} );
 } );
 
@@ -251,7 +253,7 @@ describe( 'showTextContextMenu', () => {
 	it( 'returns the selected text when Quote in composer is chosen', async () => {
 		const popup = vi.fn();
 		vi.mocked( BrowserWindow.fromWebContents ).mockReturnValue( null );
-		vi.mocked( clipboard.availableFormats ).mockReturnValue( [] );
+		vi.mocked( clipboard.has ).mockResolvedValue( false );
 		vi.mocked( Menu.buildFromTemplate ).mockReturnValue( { popup } as unknown as Menu );
 		const event = {
 			sender: { showDefinitionForSelection: vi.fn() },
@@ -261,6 +263,8 @@ describe( 'showTextContextMenu', () => {
 			event,
 			makeContext( { selectionText: 'Selected reply', canQuoteSelection: true } )
 		);
+		// The clipboard check is awaited before the menu is built.
+		await vi.waitFor( () => expect( Menu.buildFromTemplate ).toHaveBeenCalled() );
 		const template = vi.mocked( Menu.buildFromTemplate ).mock.calls[ 0 ][ 0 ];
 		const quote = template.find( ( item ) => item.label === 'Quote in composer' );
 		( quote?.click as () => void )();
diff --git a/apps/studio/src/text-context-menu.ts b/apps/studio/src/text-context-menu.ts
index 3d995823da..1b5de7c6f1 100644
--- a/apps/studio/src/text-context-menu.ts
+++ b/apps/studio/src/text-context-menu.ts
@@ -58,11 +58,10 @@ function toLookUpLabel( selection: string ): string {
 	return sprintf( __( 'Look Up “%s”' ), truncated );
 }
 
-export function hasTextClipboardFormat( formats: string[] ): boolean {
-	return formats.some( ( format ) => {
-		const normalized = format.toLowerCase();
-		return normalized.startsWith( 'text/plain' ) || normalized.includes( 'plain-text' );
-	} );
+// Electron normalizes clipboard formats to W3C MIME types, so plain text is
+// reported as `text/plain` on every platform rather than the native spellings.
+export function hasTextClipboardFormat(): Promise< boolean > {
+	return clipboard.has( 'text/plain' );
 }
 
 /**
@@ -129,15 +128,15 @@ export async function showTextContextMenu(
 		context,
 		{
 			lookUpSelection: () => event.sender.showDefinitionForSelection(),
-			copyMessage: ( text ) => clipboard.writeText( text ),
-			copyCode: ( text ) => clipboard.writeText( text ),
+			copyMessage: ( text ) => void clipboard.writeText( text ),
+			copyCode: ( text ) => void clipboard.writeText( text ),
 			quoteSelection: () => {
 				result = { action: 'quote-selection', selectionText: context.selectionText.trim() };
 			},
 		},
 		{
 			platform: process.platform,
-			canPaste: hasTextClipboardFormat( clipboard.availableFormats() ),
+			canPaste: await hasTextClipboardFormat(),
 		}
 	);
 
diff --git a/apps/studio/src/updates.ts b/apps/studio/src/updates.ts
index 56f5533b9d..e081fe4234 100644
--- a/apps/studio/src/updates.ts
+++ b/apps/studio/src/updates.ts
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ async function showLinuxUpdateAvailableNotice( version: string, downloadUrl: str
 			);
 			return;
 		}
-		clipboard.writeText( command );
+		await clipboard.writeText( command );
 		void shellOpenExternalWrapper( parsedUrl.toString() );
 	} catch {
 		Sentry.captureException( new Error( `Malformed downloadUrl: ${ downloadUrl }` ) );
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 766803165f..54bba77912 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@
 				"@wp-playground/blueprints": "3.1.45",
 				"cli-table3": "^0.6.5",
 				"date-fns": "^4.1.0",
-				"electron": "43.4.1",
+				"electron": "44.1.1",
 				"electron-devtools-installer": "^4.0.0",
 				"electron-vite": "6.0.0-beta.1",
 				"immer": "^11.0.1",
@@ -16690,9 +16690,9 @@
 			"license": "MIT"
 		},
 		"node_modules/electron": {
-			"version": "43.4.1",
-			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-43.4.1.tgz",
-			"integrity": "sha512-5b+EuiwkgG5iRcsEL34rimgRpkYp15SsfZOa0pC5kXs0Tb82TH4n95rpQzTZa7yRCbA7tm0WoEbuBL6NaAhAcA==",
+			"version": "44.1.1",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-44.1.1.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-N2WCq2sbOkqQgvXJYx2lS6UiO8bF+Yr67trDnS6JKa2WxTCRQsAjGl57SUtdW9h6r5PlduBFjIhxhgd3dzv1hg==",
 			"dev": true,
 			"license": "MIT",
 			"dependencies": {
@@ -17029,9 +17029,9 @@
 			"license": "MIT"
 		},
 		"node_modules/electron-to-chromium": {
-			"version": "1.5.405",
-			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/electron-to-chromium/-/electron-to-chromium-1.5.405.tgz",
-			"integrity": "sha512-bNglH7lPH5l+yHOes7Zr4VqxhOy4BQ9ZBUX4VdoFgxMpzJk7W1ZoO3Vgd9Pxa9PyjQ76sfm2aKH/nzEcCNRlew==",
+			"version": "1.5.420",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/electron-to-chromium/-/electron-to-chromium-1.5.420.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-2yD6XreGusOfNV+dUcvipJEXc3n/n7fgr7996aszTG+YY5E4mqM4tOq/3uhP129cazL9YHbVWSpc79ePotWtPA==",
 			"dev": true,
 			"license": "ISC"
 		},
@@ -23838,7 +23838,9 @@
 			}
 		},
 		"node_modules/node-abi": {
-			"version": "3.92.0",
+			"version": "3.96.0",
+			"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/node-abi/-/node-abi-3.96.0.tgz",
+			"integrity": "sha512-rebQ/lz7i0EkoLzUVSrKRzA69zMkwLp95kKMWoMDkkM00Suxz0D7zEQPwRml5fQum24mj7bPvmlgLAmu2JCiYg==",
 			"dev": true,
 			"license": "MIT",
 			"dependencies": {