Programmatically Select all text in UITextField

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Mirko picture Mirko · Nov 6, 2009 · Viewed 52.9k times · Source

How can I programmatically select all text in UITextField?

Answer

blackforestcowboy picture blackforestcowboy · May 29, 2013

Thats what did the trick for me:

[self.titleField setSelectedTextRange:[self.titleField textRangeFromPosition:self.titleField.beginningOfDocument toPosition:self.titleField.endOfDocument]];

Pretty ugly but it works, so there will be no sharedMenuController shown!

To fix the "only works every second time" problem use following:

__weak typeof(self) weakSelf = self;
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
    __strong __typeof(weakSelf) strongSelf = weakSelf;
    UITextRange *range = [strongSelf textRangeFromPosition:strongSelf.beginningOfDocument toPosition:strongSelf.endOfDocument];
    [strongSelf setSelectedTextRange:range];
});

Thanks to Eric Baker ( just edited from comment in here )

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