Getting cursor position in a UITextView on the iPhone?

Question

We have a UITextView in our iPhone app which is editable. We need to insert some text at the cursor location when the users presses some toolbar buttons but can\'t seem to

Answer 1

Swift 4:

// lets be safe, thus if-let
if let cursorPosition = textView.selectedTextRange?.start {
    // cursorPosition is a UITextPosition object describing position in the text

    // if you want to know its position in textView in points:
    let caretPositionRect = textView.caretRect(for: cursorPosition)
}

We simply use textView.selectedTextRange to get selected text range and cursor position is at its start position.