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

Update for iOS 12.0

Methods archivedData(withRootObject:) and unarchivedObject(with:) are deprecated as of iOS 12.0.

Here is an update to @Ivan Porcolab's answer using the newer API (since 11.0), also made more general to support other types.

extension NSObject {
    func copyObject<T:NSObject>() throws -> T? {
        let data = try NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject:self, requiringSecureCoding:false)
        return try NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveTopLevelObjectWithData(data) as? T
    }
}