UITextField copyable but not editable Swift

Question

I have a UITextField in my Swift iOS app. How do I make it copyable, but not editable?

Here's what I've tried:

1. Setting "User Interaction Enabled" to on. The field is copyable, but if one touches it, a keyboard pops up.
2. Setting "User Interaction Enabled" to off. No keyboard, but not copyable.

What should I do?

Answer 1

Use UITextView instead of UITextField. UITextField does not have an isEditable property. The following Swift 5 code shows a possible implementation of a UITextView instance that matches your requirements:

textView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
textView.isEditable = false

According to the documentation, isUserInteractionEnabled determines whether user events are ignored and removed from the event queue and isEditable indicates whether the receiver is editable.