Waiting for updates!!!!

Still waiting on this over three years later...

This functionality is a real need. I wonder why this has not been implemented yet.

I've published a workaround for now if you're interested: https://github.com/msand/react-native-selectable-text

import SelectableText from 'react-native-selectable-text';

export default ({ text, onSelectionChange }) => (

<SelectableText

selectable

multiline

contextMenuHidden

scrollEnabled={false}

editable={false}

onSelectionChange={(event) => {

const {

nativeEvent: {

selection: { start, end },

},

} = event

const str = text.substring(start, end)

onSelectionChange({ str, start, end })

}}

style={{

color: "#BAB6C8",

}}

value={text}

/>);

More than 2 years guys. Nice.

Any update?

Any updates?

any update?

I think what we really want it the Text on ios to inherit from UITextView, not UIView

RN 0.39 adds support for copying the text field as a whole: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/5d03ff8035bdb7c582f80d6ce46d7c5f11545e7e

but does not yet include support for selecting the text (or a subset of the text) for copying.