UITextView - setting font not working with iOS 6 on XCode 5

Question

I\'m using storyboards for my UI. I was previously using XCode 4.6 and released on iOS 6. I have since updated to iOS 7 using XCode 5 and updated the Storyboard to work nice

Answer 1

For me it's work if you set the text of your UITextView and after set the font (same for color) :

_myTextView.text = @"text";
[_myTextView setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica Neue" size:18.0f]];
_myTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

Answer 2

As mentioned by others:

textView.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
textView.isEditable = false

p.s. no need to first set isEditable as true since it's true by default: a little shorter, a little nicer

Answer 3

Thank you for all the answers guys. Issue is still present on iOS9. What i've found out, is that when you set "User Interaction Enabled = false" in the Interface Builder you can leave Editable and Selectable = true and user will not be able to edit a text view.

So, my solution is:

1. Set User Interaction Enabled = False in IB
2. Set Editable = True in IB
3. Set Selectable = True in IB
4. Configure your text view in whatever way you want.

Answer 4

I found the font size was being ignored. This was resolved by ticking the checkbox called: Selectable (having selected the UITextView within the storyboard)

Answer 5

In my case, I solved by setting the new font in "viewDidLayoutSubviews".

Answer 6

In my case, it is matter of 'selectable' property of UITextView.

So I checked 'selectable' property of UITextView in Storyboard Editor to set it YES

and later in viewWillAppear set this property to NO.

textview.text = @"some text";
textview.selectable = NO;