How to pad a UITextView by setting its text container inset
Swift version: 5.1
You can force the text of any UITextView to have padding – i.e., to be indented from its edges – by setting its textContainerInset property to a value of your choosing. For example, to give a text view insets of 50 points from each edge, you would use this code:
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Available from iOS 7.0
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