UITextView link detection in iOS 7

Question

I have a UITextView which is managed via Interface Builder. As data detection I have \"Links\" checked. In iOS 6 everything is working fine and links are highli

Answer 1

Changing the Tint color to other color actually works. However if selectable enable the tint will also be the same color.

Answer 2

When iOS7 first came out this plagued me and I found an answer in this thread (setting the text attribute of the UITextView to nil before setting the actual value did the trick). Then suddenly, the problem (for me it was the entire string being highlighted as a link) cropped back up (assumedly due to an iOS update).

What finally did the trick for me was to stop using the text attribute and set the attributedText. Once I did this, the need for setting fonts/scrolling/selectable/editable/etc. programmatically, disappeared. I defined my UITextView in IB, set the values as I wanted (not scrollable, not editable, selectable, detecting links and phone numbers) and then built an attributed string and set:

myUITextView.attributedString = myAttributedString;

And suddenly everything worked as expected. Hope this helps someone else down the road.

Answer 3

I've found the trick, this works in iOS 7!

You have to set the UITextView selectable in your xib or programmatically

self.yourTextView.selectable = YES;

and then you have to disable scrolls and enable again after set your text.

self.yourTextView.scrollEnabled = NO;
[self.yourTextView setText:contentString];
self.yourTextView.scrollEnabled = YES;

Answer 4

I was having some problems with phone number detection today. It seemed like the UITextView would retain old phone numbers and keep text highlighted after I had set the text to something else.

I found that if I setText:nil before setting the text to the new string, it would reset the textview, and phone numbers would highlight as normal. I'm wondering if this is some kind of bug with UITextView in iOS 7.0

Either way, this did work for me.

Answer 5

Make the scrolling property of UITextView to No. it will work... Self.textView.ScrollingEnable = NO;