Question

I disabled editing, but how do I disable the selection interface from popping up? I don’t want the user to be able to highlight text, or copy it etc.

It is important to preserve vertical scrolling.

Answer 1

textView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

Ok then if you need to preserve scrolling, then create a scrollView, set it as an outlet and add the textview on it.

Then in viewWillAppear set the textview’s height:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
  [super viewWillAppear:animated];
  self.descriptionTextView.text = @""; // set some text to determine the total height
  self.descriptionTextView.frame = CGRectMake(self.descriptionTextView.frame.origin.x,
                                              self.descriptionTextView.frame.origin.y,
                                              self.descriptionTextView.frame.size.width,
                                              self.descriptionTextView.contentSize.height);
  self.descriptionTextView.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
  //next set new content size for scroll view
  self.descriptionScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.descriptionScrollView.frame.size.width,
                                                        self.descriptionTextView.frame.origin.y + self.descriptionTextView.frame.size.height);
}