How to make URL Phone-clickable UILabel

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I want to create a clickable label on my app leading me to a Safari webpage  I also want the user to be able to phone the numbers only by clicking on them     Thanks for your advices

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You can use a UITextView and select Detection for Links  Phone Numbers and other things in the inspector

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You can make a custom UIButton and setText what ever you want and add a method with that   UIButton  sampleButton    UIButton buttonWithType UIButtonTypeCustom    sampleButton setFrame CGRectMake kLeftMargin  10  self view bounds size width - kLeftMargin - kRightMargin  52     sampleButton setTitle   URL Text  forState UIControlStateNormal    sampleButton setFont  UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize 20       sampleButton addTarget self action  selector buttonPressed  forControlEvents UIControlEventTouchUpInside    self view addSubview sampleButton     - void buttonPressed  id sender       open url

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Use UITextView instead of UILabel and it has a property to convert your text to hyperlink   Objective-C   yourTextView editable   NO  yourTextView dataDetectorTypes   UIDataDetectorTypeAll    Swift   yourTextView editable   false   yourTextView dataDetectorTypes   UIDataDetectorTypes All    This will detect links automatically   See the documentation for details

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Use UITextView instead of UILabel and it has a property to convert your text to hyperlink  Swift code   yourTextView editable   false yourTextView dataDetectorTypes   UIDataDetectorTypes All   or yourTextView dataDetectorTypes   UIDataDetectorTypes PhoneNumber   or yourTextView dataDetectorTypes   UIDataDetectorTypes Link

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https   github com mattt TTTAttributedLabel  That s definitely what you need  You can also apply attributes for your label  like underline  and apply different colors to it  Just check the instructions for clickable urls   Mainly  you do something like the following   NSRange range    label text rangeOfString   me     label addLinkToURL  NSURL URLWithString   http   github com mattt    withRange range      Embedding a custom link in a substring

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If you want this to be handled by UILabel and not UITextView  you can make UILabel subclass  like this one   class LinkedLabel  UILabel    fileprivate let layoutManager   NSLayoutManager   fileprivate let textContainer   NSTextContainer size  CGSize zero  fileprivate var textStorage  NSTextStorage    override init frame aRect CGRect       super init frame  aRect      self initialize      required init  coder aDecoder  NSCoder        super init coder  aDecoder      self initialize      func initialize         let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector LinkedLabel handleTapOnLabel       self isUserInteractionEnabled   true     self addGestureRecognizer tap     override var attributedText  NSAttributedString       didSet          if let  attributedText   attributedText              self textStorage   NSTextStorage attributedString   attributedText               self layoutManager addTextContainer self textContainer              self textStorage  addLayoutManager self layoutManager               self textContainer lineFragmentPadding   0 0              self textContainer lineBreakMode   self lineBreakMode              self textContainer maximumNumberOfLines   self numberOfLines                      func handleTapOnLabel tapGesture UITapGestureRecognizer        let locationOfTouchInLabel   tapGesture location in  tapGesture view      let labelSize   tapGesture view  bounds size     let textBoundingBox   self layoutManager usedRect for  self textContainer      let textContainerOffset   CGPoint x    labelSize  width   - textBoundingBox size width    0 5 - textBoundingBox origin x  y    labelSize  height   - textBoundingBox size height    0 5 - textBoundingBox origin y       let locationOfTouchInTextContainer   CGPoint x  locationOfTouchInLabel x - textContainerOffset x  y  locationOfTouchInLabel y - textContainerOffset y      let indexOfCharacter   self layoutManager characterIndex for  locationOfTouchInTextContainer  in  self textContainer  fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints  nil        self attributedText  enumerateAttribute NSLinkAttributeName  in  NSMakeRange 0   self attributedText  length     options  NSAttributedString EnumerationOptions rawValue  UInt 0    using            attrs  Any   range  NSRange  stop  UnsafeMutablePointer lt ObjCBool gt   in          if NSLocationInRange indexOfCharacter  range               if let  attrs   attrs                   UIApplication shared openURL URL string   attrs as  String                                         This class was made by reusing code from this answer  In order to make attributed strings check out this answer  And here you can find how to make phone urls

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Use this i liked it so much since creates link with blue color to particular text only not on whole label text  FRHyperLabel    To do    Download from above link and copy FRHyperLabel h  FRHyperLabel m to your project  Drag drop UILabel in your Storyboard and define custom class name to FRHyperLabel in identify inspector as shown in image       Connect your UILabel from storyboard to your viewController h file    property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet FRHyperLabel  label    Now in your viewController m file add following code     NSString  string     By uploading I agree to the Terms of Use       NSDictionary  attributes     NSFontAttributeName   UIFont preferredFontForTextStyle UIFontTextStyleHeadline      label attributedText     NSAttributedString alloc initWithString string attributes attributes     label setFont   label font fontWithSize 13 0       label setLinkForSubstring   Terms of Use  withLinkHandler   FRHyperLabel  label  NSString  substring         UIApplication sharedApplication  openURL  NSURL URLWithString   http   www google com             And run it

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Swift 4 0 possible solution using UIButton       phoneButton   UIButton frame  CGRect x  view frame width   0  y  view frame height   0 1  width  view frame width   1  height  view frame height   0 05        phoneButton setTitle  333-333-3333   for   normal        phoneButton setTitleColor UIColor red  0   255  green  0   255  blue  238   255  alpha  1 0   for   normal       phoneButton addTarget self  action   selector self callPhone   for   touchUpInside          objc func callPhone              UIApplication shared open URL string  tel   3333333333     options        completionHandler  nil

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Why not just use NSMutableAttributedString    let attributedString   NSMutableAttributedString string   Want to learn iOS  Just visit developer apple com            attributedString addAttribute  link  value   https   developer apple com   range  NSRange location  30  length  50            myView attributedText   attributedString   You can find more details here

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extension UITapGestureRecognizer        func didTapAttributedTextInLabel label  UILabel  inRange targetRange  NSRange  - gt  Bool            let layoutManager   NSLayoutManager           let textContainer   NSTextContainer size  CGSize zero          let textStorage   NSTextStorage attributedString  label attributedText               Configure layoutManager and textStorage         layoutManager addTextContainer textContainer          textStorage addLayoutManager layoutManager              Configure textContainer         textContainer lineFragmentPadding   0 0         textContainer lineBreakMode   label lineBreakMode         textContainer maximumNumberOfLines   label numberOfLines         textContainer size   label bounds size             main code         let locationOfTouchInLabel   self location in  label           let indexOfCharacter   layoutManager characterIndex for  locationOfTouchInLabel  in  textContainer  fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints  nil          let indexOfCharacterRange   NSRange location  indexOfCharacter  length  1          let indexOfCharacterRect   layoutManager boundingRect forGlyphRange  indexOfCharacterRange  in  textContainer          let deltaOffsetCharacter   indexOfCharacterRect origin x   indexOfCharacterRect size width          if locationOfTouchInLabel x  gt  deltaOffsetCharacter               return false           else               return NSLocationInRange indexOfCharacter  targetRange

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Swift 4 2  Xcode 9 3 version  class LinkedLabel  UILabel        fileprivate let layoutManager   NSLayoutManager       fileprivate let textContainer   NSTextContainer size  CGSize zero      fileprivate var textStorage  NSTextStorage        override init frame aRect CGRect           super init frame  aRect          self initialize              required init  coder aDecoder  NSCoder            super init coder  aDecoder          self initialize              func initialize             let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector self handleTapOnLabel           self isUserInteractionEnabled   true         self addGestureRecognizer tap             override var attributedText  NSAttributedString           didSet              if let  attributedText   attributedText                  self textStorage   NSTextStorage attributedString   attributedText                   self layoutManager addTextContainer self textContainer                  self textStorage  addLayoutManager self layoutManager                   self textContainer lineFragmentPadding   0 0                  self textContainer lineBreakMode   self lineBreakMode                  self textContainer maximumNumberOfLines   self numberOfLines                                       objc func handleTapOnLabel tapGesture UITapGestureRecognizer            let locationOfTouchInLabel   tapGesture location in  tapGesture view          let labelSize   tapGesture view  bounds size         let textBoundingBox   self layoutManager usedRect for  self textContainer          let textContainerOffset   CGPoint x    labelSize  width   - textBoundingBox size width    0 5 - textBoundingBox origin x  y    labelSize  height   - textBoundingBox size height    0 5 - textBoundingBox origin y           let locationOfTouchInTextContainer   CGPoint x  locationOfTouchInLabel x - textContainerOffset x  y  locationOfTouchInLabel y - textContainerOffset y          let indexOfCharacter   self layoutManager characterIndex for  locationOfTouchInTextContainer  in  self textContainer  fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints  nil            self attributedText  enumerateAttribute NSAttributedStringKey link  in  NSMakeRange 0   self attributedText  length     options  NSAttributedString EnumerationOptions rawValue  UInt 0    using                attrs  Any   range  NSRange  stop  UnsafeMutablePointer lt ObjCBool gt   in              if NSLocationInRange indexOfCharacter  range                   if let  attrs   attrs                       UIApplication shared openURL URL string   attrs as  String

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