UITextView clear selection when touching outside

Question

There is UITextView which is selectable but not editable. When I highlight text and touch outside the selection is not cleared. I tried to use UIMenuControllerWillHideMenu, it helps to clear selection when I touch other as the menu controller dismiss. But the problem is when I change the selection the selection is cleared because the menu controller dismissed and re appear after the selection modification. Has anyone workaround this problem too?

Answer 1

Add UITapGestureRecognizer and call endEditing:YES on your UITextView.

UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(onTextViewTap:)];
 
- (void)onTextViewTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tapGesture {
    if (tapGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
            self.textView.selectedTextRange = nil;
    }
}