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

Even stranger, this only happens on iPhone, not iPad.

If you're setting the font in code and don't want an editable text view, do this:

textView.editable = YES;
textView.font = newFont;
textView.editable = NO;

Answer 2

In my case(Developing on Xcode 7.3, iOS 9),

The cause was the order of setting text and font-family/size, not the options of editable or selectable many answers tell there.(and I don't get any storyboard, xib on that Textview.)

If I input like

[myTextView setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Italic" size:20]];
myTextView.attributedText = mAttStr;

then the font's family and size are not changed, but else when I reverse those two step, it works. Setting text should be ahead of setting font's family/size.

Answer 3

Code for swift:

textOutlet.editable = true
textOutlet.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
textOutlet.font = UIFont(name: "ArialMT", size: 20)
textOutlet.editable = false

Or if you change the text first it magically gets solved

textOutlet.text = "omg lol wtf"
textOutlet.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
textOutlet.font = UIFont(name: "ArialMT", size: 20)

Answer 4

This issue only happens when setting Selectable property to FALSE in the Interface Builder.

In case you are required to have the Editable and Selectable properties set to FALSE do it from the CODE and not in the Interface Builder.

Summing up, make Editable and Selectable properties = YES in the Interface Builder and then add the following code in case you need the properties to be FALSE:

_textView.editable   = NO;
_textView.selectable = NO;

Hope this helps,

Answer 5

Swift 3 category that worked for me:

extension UITextView {
    func setFontAndUpdate(_ font: UIFont?) {
        self.font = font

        // Font doesn't update without text change
        let text = self.text
        self.text = nil
        self.text = text
    }
}

Answer 6

The issue was caused by the editable property being false in the Storyboard. I have absolutely no idea why this caused the font to remain unchanged - and only on iOS 6.