How to stop the UITextField from responding to the shake gesture?

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By default, if you shake the iPhone while entering text in a UITextField, a little box will appear asking if you want to undo typing. How can I prevent this from happening? I looked through the UITextField, UITextFieldDelegate, and UITextInputTraits docs and found nothing relating to shaking.

Presumably I could subclass UITextField to ignore the shake event, but I'm not exactly confident in my ability to not screw other things up. I'd love something like

textField.respondsToShake = FALSE;

What's the best way to do this?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 08 '10 at 00:42

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[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationSupportsShakeToEdit = NO;

edited Sep 08 '10 at 00:42

Jesse Beder

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answered Sep 08 '10 at 00:10

Aaron Saunders

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This should be set in webViewDidFinishLoad method. – IgorGanapolsky May 25 '11 at 17:20

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '10 at 23:24

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You could try to subclass UITextField and override canPerformAction:withSender: in such a way that it will disallow the undo: action. But then you lose undo both by shaking and through the context menu.

answered Sep 07 '10 at 23:24

Stefan Arentz

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Thanks! I didn't mention that I wasn't worried about removing undo entirely in application, and it looks like there's an easier way, but this is a nice answer that I'll probably use in the future. – Jesse Beder Sep 08 '10 at 00:48

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