UITextView remove UILongPressGestureRecognizer

Question

I have an UITextView which has set all the dataDetectionTypes. I want to remove the UILongPressGestureRecognizer because the action sheet that appears after long press, on a phone number text or a calendar event text, isn't showing correctly. It doesn't present the cancel button so I need to remove the UILongPressGestureRecognizer. Does anybody have an idea?

Do you know why my actionSheet doesn't present the cancel button? Please help! This issue is reproducible on iOS 5 and 6 and for devices with 3.5 inch display or less

Answer 1

I'm just going to expand on what has been said in the comments above. In order to do this effectively, you're going to want to create a subclass of the UITextView class. Doing so will allow you to implement UIResponder's canPerformAction: function, which will allow you to selectively decide which options you want available on the popup. You can modify the below code to allow for any combination of cut/copy/paste/select... that you want, or if you want to prevent the popup all together, simply return NO from this function without calling its super implementation.

- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
    if (action == @selector(paste:) || action == @selector(select:) || action == @selector(selectAll:)) {
        return NO;
    }
    return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}

Make sure this is done in a subclass though!