How to get rid of "Highlight" context menu item in PDFView?

Question

I'm using PDFKit to render a PDF and I have added custom menus using "UIMenuController". But it is now deprecated from iOS 16 onwards.

I remove share、lookup menu items with code below:

@available(iOS 13.0, *)
open override func buildMenu(with builder: UIMenuBuilder) {
    builder.remove(menu: .lookup)
    builder.remove(menu: .share)
    builder.remove(menu: .replace)
    super.buildMenu(with: builder)
}

But the "Highlight" context menu can't be removed when a user long press to select text in a PDF. There is no way to get rid of this menu item ? And how to use UIEditMenuInteraction in PDFView ?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

Use the UIContextMenuInteraction that's available since iOS 13:

import PDFKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate {
    // ...

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Set up the UIContextMenuInteraction for your PDFView
        let interaction = UIContextMenuInteraction(delegate: self)
        pdfView.addInteraction(interaction)
    }

    // Implement the UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate method
    func contextMenuInteraction(_ interaction: UIContextMenuInteraction, configurationForMenuAtLocation location: CGPoint) -> UIContextMenuConfiguration? {
        return UIContextMenuConfiguration(identifier: nil, previewProvider: nil) { _ in
            // Create an empty UIMenu
            return UIMenu(title: "", children: [])
        }
    }
}