How do you REALLY remove Copy from UIMenuController

Question

There apparently used to be an easy way to prevent the \"More...\" label from appearing in UIMenuController when you added more than one custom menu item. You just had to re

Answer 1

Here is a solution for iOS5.x that works for me. It's by Josh Garnham, suggesting creating a UIWebBrowserView Category to catch the copy:, paste:, define: selectors.

http://ios-blog.co.uk/iphone-development-tutorials/rich-text-editing-highlighting-and-uimenucontroller-part-3/

@implementation UIWebBrowserView (UIWebBrowserView_Additions)
- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender {
    return NO;
}
@end

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Note just FTR: There's a slight typo on that excellent web page. Here's precisely how you do it. Apple will 100% reject this. Make a category

(You have to type in "UIWebBrowserView" since Xcode won't bring up private classes.) Full text of the .h and .m files:

// .h file...
#import "UIWebBrowserView+Tricky.h"
@interface UIWebBrowserView : UIView
@end
@interface UIWebBrowserView(Tricky)
@end

// .m file...
#import "UIWebBrowserView+Tricky.h"
@implementation UIWebBrowserView (Tricky)
-(BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
NSLog(@"don't let Apple see this");
return NO;
}
@end

For the record, a "single click" will still bring up the annoying spellchecker suggestions! But otherwise it does remove the double-click-context-menu totally, it is 100% rejected by Apple.