Disable clipping of "Selection Handles/Callipers" in 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.

If you look carefully you'll notice the right selection handle is being clipped, making it near impossible to touch (if you really focus you can grab it).

I've disabled "Clip subviews" on the red UITextView and it still clips it

Answer 1

In the implementation of FMProblemTableViewCell, you need to disable clipsToBounds for _messageContent. That's the view that is clipping when I try your sample code.

- (id)initWithString:(NSString *)string {
  self = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"outgoingStringMessage" owner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0];
  _messageContent.text = string;

  //corners
  _messageBubbleView.layer.cornerRadius = 5;
  _messageContent.clipsToBounds = NO; // <--- this is what fixed it
  return self;
}

Answer 2

Add some top & bottom inset to your text view's text container.

textView.textContainerInset.top += 4
textView.textContainerInset.bottom += 4

Answer 3

I had the same issue and was able to fix it by explicitly setting clipsToBounds to false programatically. If you disable it via Storyboard and inspect the view, you'll see it's not actually disabled. This is very odd behaviour, maybe it's a bug on Apple's side?

self.textView.clipsToBounds = false