UIWebView without Copy/Paste when displaying PDF files

Question

I have tried to disable Copy/Paste in UIWebView by using a category and overriding canPerformAction and returning NO for copy, cut and paste selectors.

It worked

Answer 1

The UILongPressGestureRecognizer is located in the UIPDFPageView. To get access to this view look at the view hierarchy in the Debug menu, currently you can access this view like so once you load the pdf to the web view:

let pdfPageView = myWebView.scrollview?.subviews[0]?.subviews[0]

Then to remove the Long Press use this method while passing in the pdfPageView:

func removeLongPressFromView(view: UIView){
  if let gestures = view.gestureRecognizers{
    for gesture in gestures{
      if gesture is UILongPressGestureRecognzier{
        view.removeGestureRecognizer(gesture)
      }
    }
  }
}