Setting UITextView Cursor Position - ios

Question

I have multiple uitextviews with their respective light gray placeholder text onLoad. Delegates are properly set.
My goal is, on any uitextview tap, to have the cursor selected to the start of the uitextview if the placeholder is present.
My problem is when I initially tap outside the placeholder text range (the blank space without text), the textviewdidchangeselection delegate doesn't even fire and the cursor begins at the end of the placeholder text. When I initially tap the placeholder text things work properly. When I initially tap the placeholder text and then try to tap outside the placeholder text range, things also work properly.
Any thoughts on why it is behaving the way it is? I tried both .selectedRange and .selectedTextRange to no avail.
func onLoad() {
textView1.text = placeHolderText1
textView1.textColor = UIColor.lightGray
textView2.text = placeHolderText2
textView2.textColor = UIColor.lightGray
textView1.textContainerInset.left = 4
textView1.layer.cornerRadius = 2
textView1.layer.masksToBounds = true
textView1.delegate = self
textView2.textContainerInset.left = 4
textView2.layer.cornerRadius = 2
textView2.layer.masksToBounds = true
textView2.delegate = self
}
func textViewDidChangeSelection(_ textView: UITextView) {
if self.view.window != nil {
if textView == textView1 {
if textView.textColor == UIColor.lightGray && textView.text == placeHolderText1 {
textView.selectedTextRange = textView.textRange(from: textView.beginningOfDocument, to: textView.beginningOfDocument)
}
} else if textView == textView2 {
if textView.textColor == UIColor.lightGray && textView.text == placeHolderText2 {
textView.selectedRange = NSMakeRange(0, 0)
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

If I'm not wrong, your final goal is to have a working placeholder?
If yes, you can try this code:
//TextView place holder
extension UITextView{
func setPlaceholder() {
let placeholderLabel = UILabel()
placeholderLabel.text = "Enter your hashtags ..."
placeholderLabel.font = UIFont.italicSystemFont(ofSize: (self.font?.pointSize)!)
placeholderLabel.sizeToFit()
placeholderLabel.tag = 222
placeholderLabel.frame.origin = CGPoint(x: 5, y: (self.font?.pointSize)! / 2)
placeholderLabel.textColor = UIColor.lightGray
placeholderLabel.isHidden = !self.text.isEmpty
self.addSubview(placeholderLabel)
}
func checkPlaceholder() {
let placeholderLabel = self.viewWithTag(222) as! UILabel
placeholderLabel.isHidden = !self.text.isEmpty
}
}
with this code in your viewController class that has the UItextViewDelegate:
func textViewDidChange(_ textView: UITextView) {
textView1.checkPlaceholder()
textView2.checkPlaceholder()
}
and this code in your viewController class viewDidload:
textView1.setPlaceholder()
textView2.setPlaceholder()