Question

I have a UITextView with text that needs to be scrolled to see the complete text.

But there are paragraphs between the text blocks and it is not really obvious that the text is scrollable without starting to scroll so that the scroll indicator becomes visible. This is because the emtpy lines between paragraphs are just on the bottom of the visible text within the text view.

While I could insert some empty lines so that a text block gets broken up and the user could see that the text goes on, the issue is that the app will be translated to many languages and this solution is therefore not feasible anymore. Since all languanges would have to be tested individually and for each the empty lines will be inserted at different places.

That’s why I am asking, if there is a way to indicate to the user that the shown text continues if he scrolls down – immediately when the view opens – so without the user tapping on the screen.

Many thanks

Answer 1

Since UITextView is a subclass of UIScrollView you can use the method flashScrollIndicators.
This method flashes the scroll indicators of the scrollView, this is the way to show users that content is scrollable.