UITextView inside UIScrollView with AutoLayout

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After a few days of research and getting my hands dirty with UIScrollView + UITextView + Auto Layout, I successfully got a fully working UIScrollView. I want to share my solution just in case someone might stuck on the same situation.

  1. Add UIScrollView inside the main view in Storyboard
  2. Add UIView inside the UIScrollView
  3. Add UITextView inside the UIView (the view added in step 2)
  4. Make sure “Scrolling Enabled” of UITextView is unchecked
  5. Add 4 constraints (leading, trailing, top, bottom) on UIScrollView
  6. Add 4 constraints (leading, trailing, top, bottom) on UIView (the view added in step 2)
  7. Add “Width Equally” constraint on UIView (the view added in step 2) and the main view
  8. Add 5 constraints (leading, trailing, top, bottom, height) on UITextView. After this step you shouldn’t get any errors and warnings on constraints.
  9. Add UITextView height constraint IBOutlet on the ViewController. @property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *textViewHeightConstraint; and connect it in Storyboard
  10. Change the UITextView height constraint programmatically. self.textViewHeightConstraint.constant = [self.textView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(self.textView.frame.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX)].height;

After all of these 10 steps, you’ll get fully working UIScrollView with UITextView inside and be happy.

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