White Text in UITextField = Invisible text in iPhone copy/paste select. Fix?

Question

If I have white text in my UITextField, the selection window (when selecting text) is invisible because the background on the little window is also white.

Any way to

Answer 1

I'm afraid not. The problem's existed since the earliest days of the iPhone OS—white text appears as white-on-white in the cursor-positioning loupe as well. If this is a serious problem for your app, your only real options are to change the text color or to file a radar feature request with Apple.