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# UITextDroppable

The interface that determines if a text view is a drop destination.

```
@MainActor protocol UITextDroppable : UITextInput, UITextPasteConfigurationSupporting
```

## Topics

### Checking the text drop activity status

[`var isTextDropActive: Bool`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextDroppable/isTextDropActive)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the text view has at least one active drop session.

### Managing the text drop interaction

[`var textDropInteraction: UIDropInteraction?`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextDroppable/textDropInteraction)

The drop interaction object added by UIKit to the text view.

### Setting the text drop delegate

[`var textDropDelegate: (any UITextDropDelegate)?`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextDroppable/textDropDelegate)

The text drop delegate for interacting with a drop activity in the text view.

## Relationships

### Conforming Types

[`UISearchTextField`](/documentation/UIKit/UISearchTextField)

[`UITextField`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextField)

[`UITextView`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextView)

### Inherits From

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`UITextPasteConfigurationSupporting`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextPasteConfigurationSupporting)

[`UITextInputTraits`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextInputTraits)

[`UIPasteConfigurationSupporting`](/documentation/UIKit/UIPasteConfigurationSupporting)

[`UIKeyInput`](/documentation/UIKit/UIKeyInput)

[`UITextInput`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextInput)

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