UITextView starts at Bottom or Middle of the text

Question

I\'ll get right to it. I have a UItextView placed in my view that when needs to scroll to see all the text (when a lot of text is present in the textView) the t

Answer 1

Swift 4.2 & Swift 5

set content offset both before and after setting the text. (on the main Thread)

let animation = false //or whatever you want
self.mainTextView.setContentOffset(.zero, animated: animation)
self.mainTextView.attributedText = YOUR_ATTRIBUTED_TEXT
self.mainTextView.setContentOffset(.zero, animated: animation)

Answer 2

In my case I was loading a textView in a Custom tableview cell. Below is what I did to make sure the text in a textview loads at the top of the text in my textview in my custom cell.

1.) In storyboard, set the textview ScrollEnabled = false by unchecking the button.

2.) You set the isScrollEnabled to true on the textview after the view loads. I set mine in a small delay like below:

override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()

let when = DispatchTime.now() + 1
      DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: when){
        self.textView.isScrollEnabled = true
     }

}

Regardless, if you are in my situation or not, try setting scrollEnabled to false and then when the view loads, set scrollEnabled to true.

Answer 3

Put this one line of code in ViewDidLoad

self.automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = false

Answer 4

I translated zeeple's answer to MonoTouch/Xamarin (C#).

public override void ViewDidLayoutSubviews()
{
    base.ViewDidLayoutSubviews();
    myForm.SetContentOffset(new CoreGraphics.CGPoint(0,0), animated: false);
}

Answer 5

Create an outlet for your UITextView in the ViewController.swift file. In the ViewDidLoad section put the following:

Swift:

self.textView.contentOffset.y = 0

I have tried:

self.textView.scrollRangeToVisible(NSMakeRange(0, 0))

Answer 6

For Swift >2.2, I had issues with iOS 8 and iOS 9 using above methods as there are no single answer that works so here is what I did to make it work for both.

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)

    if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
        textView.scrollEnabled = false
    }

    self.textView.scrollRangeToVisible(NSMakeRange(0, 0))
}

override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
        textView.scrollEnabled = true
    }
}