Programmatically Select all text in UITextField

I just tested this to verify Mirko's comment above, but my test verifies that selectAll: does in fact select all the text when it's sent to the UITextField itself.

Note that the text will be immediately obscured with CUT | COPY | PASTE actions, but to your question, it is exactly what appears when a user taps "Select All" to begin with.

The solution I'm going with follows, note that the second line will temporarily hide the CUT/COPY/PASTE dialog, without disabling it for explicit user selections

[_myTextField selectAll:self];
[UIMenuController sharedMenuController].menuVisible = NO;

UITextField *tf = yourTF;
// hide cursor (you have store default color!!!)
[[tf valueForKey:@"textInputTraits"] setValue:[UIColor clearColor]
                                       forKey:@"insertionPointColor"];
// enable selection
[tf selectAll:self];
// insert your string here
// and select nothing (!!!)
[tf setMarkedText:@"Egor"
    selectedRange:NSMakeRange(0, 0)];

Done!