SwiftUI - how to copy text to clipboard?

Question

How does one copy the contents of a Text field to the iOS clipboard?

I have the following code & want to replace the "print(..)" statement with a statement that copies the content of the text field to the iOS clipboard.

Text(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog)
    .onTapGesture(count: 2) {
        print("Copy text field content to ClipBoard Here..")
    }

Can't seem to find any SwiftUI examples how to do this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the following - put shown text into pasteboard for specific type (and you can set as many values and types as needed)

Update: for Xcode 13+, because of "'kUTTypePlainText' was deprecated in iOS 15.0..." warning

import UniformTypeIdentifiers

Text(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog)
    .onTapGesture(count: 2) {
        UIPasteboard.general.setValue(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog,
            forPasteboardType: UTType.plainText.identifier)
    }

for older versions:

import MobileCoreServices // << for UTI types

// ... other code

Text(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog)
    .onTapGesture(count: 2) {
        UIPasteboard.general.setValue(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog, 
            forPasteboardType: kUTTypePlainText as String)
    }

backup

Answer 2

Text(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog)
    .onTapGesture(count: 2) {    
        UIPasteboard.general.string = self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog
    }

or really fancy:

Text(self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog)
    .contextMenu {
        Button(action: {
            UIPasteboard.general.string = self.BLEinfo.sendRcvLog
        }) {
            Text("Copy to clipboard")
            Image(systemName: "doc.on.doc")
        }
     }

Answer 3

For iOS 14+

UIPasteboard.general.setValue(message, forPasteboardType: "public.plain-text")