Hi everyone,
I’m working on an app that uses WKWebView. Due to security concerns, our customers want the app to disable copy-paste functionality and similar options (such as Lookup and Share, allowing users to extract text from the app or save it as a file.
I was able to disable copy-paste and remove UIMenu options like Lookup and Share.
Everything worked fine until the iOS 18.1 beta, which introduced a new menu called Writing Tools (Apple Intelligence) that has its own copy and share buttons
I've tried several ways to remove it
Remove all UIMenu items using canPerformAction, and it works for all menus but Writing Tools, which still remains
override func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool {
return false
}
Remove it from UIMenuBuilder
override func buildMenu(with builder: UIMenuBuilder) {
builder.remove(menu: .lookup)
builder.remove(menu: .share)
}
But unfortunately, UIMenuBuilder does not have an identifier for Writing Tools, and it seems like there are no API changes from Xcode 15 to Xcode 16 (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uimenu/identifier)
It seems like the only way to disable it through MDM configuration (key: allowWritingTools), but we don't use MDM
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/restrictions
Environment
iOS Version: iOS 18.1 beta4
Device: iPhone 15 Pro
App platform: iOS
Xcode version: 16.0
MacOS: 15.0
Thank you
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