iOS: Scaling UITextView with pinching?

To elaborate on @Cocoanetics answer above. I implemented the gesture handling idea for attributed strings on iOS 7 but it is prohibitively slow when you have too many font changes in your string. There is also a ridiculous buffering bug in iOS 7 where Change notifications keep firing long after you've stopped pinching - reminds me of the stupid keyboard buffer in early versions of PC-DOS. Anyway, I have put the code below that got this working for me - although it has only resulted in informing me that this is a waste of time and that I need to give my users some other way of scaling their fonts.

- (void)scaleTextView:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)pinchGestureRecognizer
{
    CGFloat scale = 0;
    NSMutableAttributedString *string;

    switch (pinchGestureRecognizer.state) {
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan:
            self.old_scale = 1.0;
            self.last_time = [NSDate date];
            break;

        case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged:
            scale = pinchGestureRecognizer.scale - self.old_scale;

            if( [self.last_time timeIntervalSinceNow] < -0.2 )  {       //  updating 5 times a second is best I can do - faster than this and we get buffered changes going on for ages!
                self.last_time = [NSDate date];
                string = [self getScaledStringFrom:[self.textview.attributedText mutableCopy] withScale:1.0 + scale];
                if( string )    {
                    self.textview.attributedText = string;
                    self.old_scale = pinchGestureRecognizer.scale;
                }
            }
            break;

        case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded:
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateCancelled:
        case UIGestureRecognizerStateFailed:
            break;

        default:
            break;
    }
}

- (NSMutableAttributedString*) getScaledStringFrom:(NSMutableAttributedString*)string withScale:(CGFloat)scale
{
    [string beginEditing];
    [string enumerateAttribute:NSFontAttributeName inRange:NSMakeRange(0, string.length) options:0 usingBlock:^(id value, NSRange range, BOOL *stop) {
        if (value) {
            UIFont *oldFont = (UIFont *)value;
            UIFont *newFont = [oldFont fontWithSize:oldFont.pointSize * scale];
            [string removeAttribute:NSFontAttributeName range:range];
            [string addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:newFont range:range];
        }
    }];
    [string endEditing];
    return string;
}

Try:

- (void)scaleTextView:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)pinchGestRecognizer{
     CGFloat scale = pinchGestRecognizer.scale;

    createTextView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:createTextView.font.fontName size:createTextView.font.pointSize*scale];

    [self textViewDidChange:createTextView];       
}

It basically scales the font size and then recalculates the content size using your code in textViewDidChange.

First of all add UIPinchGestureRecognizer in viewDidLoad method:

UIPinchGestureRecognizer *pinchOnTextfield = [[UIPinchGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleTextFieldFontOnAddMusicVc:)];
[self.myTextField addGestureRecognizer:pinchOnTextfield];

then put this method in your viewController to scale textField font:

- (void)handleTextFieldFontOnAddMusicVc:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)pinchGestRecognizer {
    if (pinchGestRecognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded || pinchGestRecognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged) {
        CGFloat currentFontSize = self.myTextField.font.pointSize;
        CGFloat newScale = currentFontSize * pinchGestRecognizer.scale;

        if (newScale < 20.0) {
            newScale = 20.0;
        }
        if (newScale > 60.0) {
            newScale = 60.0;
        }

        self.myTextField.font = [UIFont fontWithName:self.myTextField.font.fontName size:newScale];
        pinchGestRecognizer.scale = 1;

    }    
}