How to make UITextView not editable and dont want keyboard to showup

Question

In a UITextView have a text which is for readonly and dont want any userinteraction at all means dont want text to be edited and even dont want keyboard to showup. I want to make UITextView scrollable.

Right now what happening is that it is not scrollable and the content is editable and keyboard shows up and bottom wall of the border is not showing. If anyone can help me with this issue. Will appreciate it so much.

Thanks in advance.

score 45 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 27 '18 at 17:24

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Set the editable / isEditable property to NO / false.

Swift 3, 4:

textView.isEditable = false

Swift 1, 2:

textView.editable = false

Objective-C:

textView.editable = NO;

edited Mar 27 '18 at 17:24

Linus Unnebäck

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answered Jan 09 '12 at 17:04

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score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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textView.editable = NO;

It's mentioned in the documentation.

And about the scrolling; Your UITextView will scroll when the content size exceeds the frame size of your UITextView.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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self.textView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 415)]; self.textView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; self.textView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Georgia-BoldItalic" size:16]; – user1120133 Jan 09 '12 at 17:37
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That looks like a really large frame. I don't see the text you are putting in the textview but I can guess that your textView frame is larger than the content size (size of the text). At this point it would be best to attach a screenshot of what your textview looks like. – Sid Jan 09 '12 at 18:01

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 16 '15 at 16:46

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textview.editable = false // for swift language
textview.selectable = false //

// override textview delegates
func textViewShouldBeginEditing(textView: UITextView) -> Bool {
    return false
}

edited Jun 16 '15 at 16:46

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answered Jun 16 '15 at 16:20

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once you set the editable property to false, there is no need to override the "ShouldBeginEditing" method. – goodolddays Jul 15 '15 at 14:37
He just gave two methods to accomplish the target. @UmarJamil – DawnSong Oct 17 '16 at 07:26
With *Swift 4* textview.isEditable = false textview.isSelectable = false – Tyler Hackbart Feb 03 '18 at 19:30

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 08 '19 at 07:54

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you can also set the behavior through storyboard. just uncheck the 'editable' like the image below

answered Aug 08 '19 at 07:54

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Mick · Answer 5 · 2018-04-09T01:54:23.050

Update Swift 3+

editable and selectable have been renamed to isEditable and isSelectable

textView.isEditable = false
textView.isSelectable = false

isEditable

A Boolean value indicating whether the receiver is editable. The default value of this property is true.
 var isEditable: Bool { get set }
isSelectable

A Boolean value indicating whether the receiver is selectable. This property controls the ability of the user to select content and interact with URLs and text attachments. The default value is true.
 var isSelectable: Bool { get set }

How to make UITextView not editable and dont want keyboard to showup

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