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Ok I managed to figure it out. I don't know if there's a better way to do this but I copied the square mask, made it white then masked the pattern with that. Took the original square with color and put it as the bottom layer of the pattern.

@firstdefence I am trying to create a mask so that when I copy the final image and paste it into a new document, I can create a seamless pattern. I've done it before on a previous design, it's just not working the same for this one. Also when I tried doing what you said it wouldn't let me do that. Maybe because yours are both layers and one of mine is a group?

I'm following a tutorial for making a seamless pattern and at the end it says to mask the pattern by dragging/dropping to the vector shape below but when I do that it puts the vector color over my whole pattern. If I remove the vector color then the pattern doesn't show at all. I've also tried putting the vector shape onto the pattern which keeps the pattern colors but adds a haze. Idk why it's doing this, especially when I was able to mask other elements in the pattern. The ultimate image is supposed to look like the top photo but masked.