How to remove the option window for selected text in textfield, Swift

Question

When text is selected/marked in my app this window pops up with different options if the user would want to copy/cut out etc, but I want this window not to be able to pop up at all. Anyone knows how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance, Pontus

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '21 at 10:48

You must create a subclass of your UITexField or UITextView (or UILabel) depending on which one you want to disable the UIMenu.
Then override:

func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, 
           withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool

And return no for the selectors you want to disable.
If you prefer to disable selection of text in a UITextView, you can disable the selection behavior.

How to remove the option window for selected text in textfield, Swift

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