iOS9 Multi-Line UITextView not displaying properly

Question

I have an app that was using UITextViews to display text (possibly multi-line), and was working correctly in iOS8. I turned off scrolling by declaring self.scrollEnabled = false. The UITextView would break words to new lines where needed and all seemed to be working!

However, when I ran the code on iOS9, the UITextView would only display 1 line of text always (no matter how many lines of text there were).

I realized when I removed the self.scrollEnabled = false line, the UITextView rendered correctly (showing all lines), but it was back to being scrollable obviously and this was not the intention.

What should I do to allow the UITextView to render multiple lines AND turn off scrolling? Has anybody seen this issue before or have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should set the textContainerInset of the textView

The code below creates a UITextView with multiple lines (you should also set constraints to the textview)

let titleTextView: UITextView = {
    let textView = UITextView()
    textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    textView.text = "something to say"
    textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
    textView.textColor = UIColor.lightGray
    textView.font = UIFont(name: "Helvetica", size: 14)
    return textView
}()