IOs Cordova long-press shows text-select magnifying glass even with text-selection disabled, how to remove?

Question

I have a very weird problem. In my cordova app on iOS I am getting a pop-up text-select magnifying glass when I long-press anywhere in the app.

Example:

Answer 1

Thank you for that Automatico! Saved me from a lot more frustration.

Since then however it looks like that code has been merged into mainline cordova and can just be enabled by adding

to config.xml

That worked perfectly for me!

Here is the commit and notes that brought it in

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/commit/1ad9951c80dbf97281e763f5f27a9bc8852c0537