UITextview Hide cursor/Change color of cursor

Question

In my application, In UITextview i want to hide cursor.

If this is not possible then I want to change color of cursor.

Can we do this? I have search for it b

Answer 1

You can hide the cursor only if you disabled the editing property set to No

Answer 2

To hide the cursor, just subclass UITextField and override -caretRectForPosition: which is implemented by UITextField to conform with UITextInput protocol:

- (CGRect)caretRectForPosition:(UITextPosition *)position
{
    return CGRectZero;    // ensures the cursor won't appear
}

As for changing the color or the cursor, I think it's not possible without accessing private API.

EDIT: as per S. Soffes comment, changing the color is possible via tintColor property, obviously.

Answer 3

On iOS 7, you can simply set the tintColor of your text view as the same of its backgroundColor to make the cursor invisible.

textView.tintColor = textView.backgroundColor;

or you can try:

textView.tintColor = [UIColor clearColor];