How to make UITextView not editable and dont want keyboard to showup

textView.editable = NO;

It's mentioned in the documentation.

And about the scrolling; Your UITextView will scroll when the content size exceeds the frame size of your UITextView.

Set the editable / isEditable property to NO / false.

Swift 3, 4:

textView.isEditable = false

Swift 1, 2:

textView.editable = false

Objective-C:

textView.editable = NO;

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