Disable text selection UITextView

Question

I want to disable text selection on a UITextView. Until now what i\'ve already done is:

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender {   
           


        

Answer 1

textView.editable = NO;

or

[textView setEnabled:NO];

im not sure what u meant

Answer 2

If you want to prevent the text selection but keep links interactions, add the following textview delegate methods

- (void)textViewDidChangeSelection:(UITextView *)textView
{
    [textView setSelectedRange:NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0)];
}

Answer 3

If you want to disable cut/copy/paste on all UITextView of your application you can use a category with :

@implementation UITextView (DisableCopyPaste)

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder
{
    return NO;
}

@end

It saves a subclassing... :-)

Otherwise, just subclass UITextViewand put :

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder
{
    return NO;
}