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

Apparently, in iOS 9 there is a bug which makes the -webkit-user-select: none; not work. There is a plugin which fixes this

https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/cordova-plugin-ios-longpress-fix

Thanks to Frederik Wessberg https://stackoverflow.com/a/32737049/741850

Answer 2

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

<preference name="SuppressesLongPressGesture" value="true" /> 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