Copy text to clipboard with iOS

Question

What is the best way to copy text to the iPhone's clipboard in your application?

Their docs are sketchy and have way more features than what I want... I just want to set a string as the users clipboard.

Answer 1

Although the accepted answer is a good walkthrough of how UIPasteboard works, I figured I'd post the relevant snippet right here for everyone's convenience:

OBJ-C

UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
pasteboard.string = @"paste me somewhere";

Swift 2.2

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
pasteBoard.string = "Paste Me !"

Swift 3+:

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"

Answer 2

Swift 2.2 :

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
pasteBoard.string = "Paste Me !"

Swift 3:

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"