How to disable undo, redo, copy, and paste gestures using editingInteractionConfiguration
Swift version: 5.4
iOS provides built-in gestures for undo, redo, copy, and paste in text views, triggered using a variety of three-finger moves – swiping left and right, or pinching in or out respectively. If you have existing gestures that collide with these, you can disable the system gestures by overriding the editingInteractionConfiguration property to return .none.
For example, if you have a UITextView as a property inside a UIViewController and you wanted to disable three-finger gesture support inside that view controller, you would override editingInteractionConfiguration like this:
override var editingInteractionConfiguration: UIEditingInteractionConfiguration {
return .none
}This property exists on UIResponder, which means you can override it at a number of other levels if you prefer.
SPONSORED From August 2nd to 8th you can join a FREE crash course for mid/senior iOS devs who want to achieve an expert level of technical and practical skills – it’s the fast track to being a complete senior developer!
Sponsor Hacking with Swift and reach the world's largest Swift community!
Available from iOS 13.0
Similar solutions…
- How to copy objects in Swift using copy()
- All SwiftUI property wrappers explained and compared
- SwiftUI tips and tricks
- How to create live playgrounds in Xcode
- How to create a random terrain tile map using SKTileMapNode and GKPerlinNoiseSource
About the Swift Knowledge Base
This is part of the Swift Knowledge Base, a free, searchable collection of solutions for common iOS questions.
