How disable Copy, Cut, Select, Select All in UITextView

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The UITextView's Copy, Cut, Select, Select All functionality is shown by default when I press down on the screen. But, in my project the UITextField is only read only. I do not require this functionality. Please tell me how to disable this feature.

uitextview objective-c ios
32 Answers

This was the best working solution for me:

UIView *overlay = [[UIView alloc] init];  
[overlay setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, myTextView.contentSize.width, myTextView.contentSize.height)];  
[myTextView addSubview:overlay];  
[overlay release];

from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5704584/1293949

user_12939490

If you want to disable popup for UITextField then try this UITextFieldDelegate method to toggle isUserInteractionEnabled.

func textFieldShouldBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
    textField.isUserInteractionEnabled = false
    return true
}
func textFieldShouldEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
    textField.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
    return true
}
user_22840650

If you are looking for a iOS >=13.0 version you can simply use this extension at any level of implementation down to the UIResponder:

extension UITextField {
  override var editingInteractionConfiguration: UIEditingInteractionConfiguration {
      return .none
  }
}
user_15018470

UITextView has two property that will do what you need: isSelectable and isEditable.

Setting isEditable to false you will avoid the user to edit the text and setting isSelectable to false you will avoid the user to select text inside your textView so this will prevent the action menu to be shown.

user_77563320

Please find the sample code for reference:

 override public func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool {
        if action == #selector(copy(_:)) || action == #selector(paste(_:)) || action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.paste(_:)) ||
            action == #selector(replace(_:withText:)) ||
            action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.cut(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.select(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.selectAll(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.delete(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.makeTextWritingDirectionLeftToRight(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.makeTextWritingDirectionRightToLeft(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.toggleBoldface(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.toggleItalics(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.toggleUnderline(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.increaseSize(_:)) ||
        action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.decreaseSize(_:))

       {
            return false
        }

        return true
    }
user_125695730

You can use method swizzling for acheiving this. Method swizzling is to be performed for the method : func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool

If you have multiple textFeild/textView throughout app, in different storyboards and if you want all of them to discard clipboard options at once then this is best solution.Method swizzling implementation can be added in the textFeild/textView extensions. Swizzle function can be called in didginish launch in app delegate.

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