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tarnfeld
tarnfeld

Reputation: 26566

Copy text to clipboard with iOS

What is the best way to copy text to the iPhone's clipboard in your application?

Their docs are sketchy and have way more features than what I want... I just want to set a string as the users clipboard.

Upvotes: 216

Views: 79155

Answers (2)

samvermette
samvermette

Reputation: 40437

Although the accepted answer is a good walkthrough of how UIPasteboard works, I figured I'd post the relevant snippet right here for everyone's convenience:

Obj-C

UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
pasteboard.string = @"Paste me!";

Swift 2.2

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"

Swift 3+:

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"

Upvotes: 637

Mojtaba Yeganeh
Mojtaba Yeganeh

Reputation: 2922

Swift 2.2 :

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
pasteBoard.string = "Paste Me !"

Swift 3:

let pasteBoard = UIPasteboard.general
pasteBoard.string = "Paste me!"

Upvotes: 35

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