Question

I want to disable the annoying clicks that the UIPickerView generates upon scrolling up and down. Is there a way to do this? I want to play short sounds for each item that the picker view lands upon. It gets ruined by the built in sound.

I understand that the picker sounds can be turned off globally by switching off the keyboard sounds in iPhone/iPod settings. But is there a way to programatically do this?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Thanks

Answer 1

After using this specific undocumented api for over a year on the App Store Apple finally asked me to remove it from my App. It is very frustrating for audio apps to have that damn click sound. The best advice is to share with users that the picker sound can be disabled globally in the settings application under “Sounds” and setting “Keyboard Clicks” to “Off”. I also strongly recommend visiting https://bugreport.apple.com/ and filing a bug for UIPickerView, as it can cause distortion in audio applications when the picker click is played.