diff --git a/imgui.cpp b/imgui.cpp
index 8db2b250c..9d3cb1ba7 100644
--- a/imgui.cpp
+++ b/imgui.cpp
@@ -9655,7 +9655,10 @@ static const char* GetClipboardTextFn_DefaultImpl(void*)
         return NULL;
     HANDLE wbuf_handle = GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT);
     if (wbuf_handle == NULL)
+    {
+        CloseClipboard();
         return NULL;
+    }
     if (ImWchar* wbuf_global = (ImWchar*)GlobalLock(wbuf_handle))
     {
         int buf_len = ImTextCountUtf8BytesFromStr(wbuf_global, NULL) + 1;