How to copy text to the clipboard using UIPasteboard
Swift version: 5.2
You can write to and read from the iOS clipboard by using the UIPasteboard class, which has a generalPasteboard() method that returns the shared system method of copying and pasting data between apps. Using this you can write text to the clipboard just like this:
let pasteboard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteboard.string = "Hello, world!"To read text back from the clipboard, you should unwrap its optional value like this:
if let string = pasteboard.string {
// text was found and placed in the "string" constant
}
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Available from iOS 3.0
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