Can we directly get a refrence to UITextView's textview.text or do we need to make a copy of it to use it as a NSString from objC?

Can we directly get a refrence textview.text and use it as a objC's NSString .If yes ,do we need to handle memory dellocation or is it taken care by ARC?

If we cann't directly take a refrence ,do we have another option than making a copy of textview.text and use it as a ObjC's NSString?