Create a copy of a UIView in Swift

Question

Because objects are reference types, not value types, if you set a UIView equal to another UIView, the views are the same object. If you modify one

Answer 1

You can't arbitrarily copy an object. Only objects that implement the NSCopying protocol can be copied.

However, there is a workaround: Since UIViews can be serialized to disk (e.g. to load from a XIB), you could use NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver to create a serialized NSData describing your view, then de-serialize that again to get an independent but identical object.