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

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.

Solution 1:

The easiest way to disable pasteboard operations is to create a subclass of UITextView that overrides the canPerformAction:withSender: method to return NO for actions that you don't want to allow:

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
    if (action == @selector(paste:))
        return NO;
    return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}

_{Also see UIResponder}

Solution 2:

Subclass UITextView and overwrite canBecomeFirstResponder:

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
    return NO;
}

Note, that this only applies for non-editable UITextViews! Haven't tested it on editable ones...

Solution 3:

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

Solution 4:

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... :-)