Hide "Selection Preview" caret on UITextView

Question

I'm having a hard time googling this one because I'm not sure what to call it but here's a screenshot.

The issue is that I have a large font-size user-editable UITextView. I'm creating and adding it like this:

UITextView *textView1 = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:(CGRect){0,0,700,200}];
textView1.text = @"THANK YOU";
textView1.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold" size:95.0];
textView1.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
textView1.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
textView1.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
[self.innerContainerView addSubview:textView1];
[textView1 sizeToFit];
textView1.frame = CGRectInset(textView1.frame, -20, 0);
textView1.center = (CGPoint){self.innerContainerView.frame.size.width / 2, self.innerContainerView.frame.size.height / 2};
textView1.delegate = self;

Everything works great until the user goes to select a specific character range. While dragging the selection handles this (mostly) empty caret appears. It seems like this would normally show you a slightly magnified preview of the text being selected but here it's useless and ugly. Is there a way to disable this tool? What's it even called?

Answer 1

Try this :

yourTextView.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;