UITextView selectAll method not working as expected

Question

I\'m creating an iOS 8 app with Xcode 6.0.1 for my iPhone 5 (which has iOS 8.0.2 on it). I want to make it so that when a user clicks on my UITextView, all the text

Answer 1

The best solution I've found for this issue so far is to create a custom UITextView (i.e. create a new class that extends UITextView) and then implement the selectAll method like this:

- (void)selectAll:(id)sender {
    [super selectAll:sender];
    UITextRange *selectionRange = [self textRangeFromPosition:self.beginningOfDocument toPosition:self.endOfDocument];
    [self performSelector:@selector(setSelectedTextRange:) withObject:selectionRange afterDelay:0.0];
}

Then when you use a text view, set its type to your custom text view type (in your code and in the storyboard). Now you can successfully call the selectAll method whenever you need to. I suppose this should work with UITextField too, but I haven't tried it yet.