Center text vertically in a UITextView

If you don't want to use KVO you can also manually adjust offset with exporting this code to a function like this :

-(void)adjustContentSize:(UITextView*)tv{
    CGFloat deadSpace = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height);
    CGFloat inset = MAX(0, deadSpace/2.0);
    tv.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(inset, tv.contentInset.left, inset, tv.contentInset.right);
}  

and calling it in

-(void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView{
    [self adjustContentSize:textView];
}

and every time you edit the text in the code. Don't forget to set the controller as the delegate

Swift 3 version:

func adjustContentSize(tv: UITextView){
    let deadSpace = tv.bounds.size.height - tv.contentSize.height
    let inset = max(0, deadSpace/2.0)
    tv.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(inset, tv.contentInset.left, inset, tv.contentInset.right)
}

func textViewDidChange(_ textView: UITextView) {
    self.adjustContentSize(tv: textView)
}

Because UIKit is not KVO compliant, I decided to implement this as a subclass of UITextView which updates whenever the contentSize changes.

It's a slightly modified version of Carlos's answer which sets the contentInset instead of the contentOffset. In addition to being compatible with iOS 9, it also seems to be less buggy on iOS 8.4.

class VerticallyCenteredTextView: UITextView {
    override var contentSize: CGSize {
        didSet {
            var topCorrection = (bounds.size.height - contentSize.height * zoomScale) / 2.0
            topCorrection = max(0, topCorrection)
            contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: topCorrection, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
        }
    }
}

For iOS 9.0.2. we'll need to set the contentInset instead. If we KVO the contentOffset, iOS 9.0.2 sets it to 0 at the last moment, overriding the changes to contentOffset.

-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context
{
    UITextView *tv = object;
    CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv     contentSize].height * [tv zoomScale])/2.0;
    topCorrect = ( topCorrect < 0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect );
    [tv setContentInset:UIEdgeInsetsMake(topCorrect,0,0,0)];
}

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:NO];
    [questionTextView addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"contentSize" options:(NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew) context:NULL];
}

I used 0,0, and 0 for the left,bottom and right edge insets respectively. Make sure to calculate those as well for your use case.

First add an observer for the contentSize key value of the UITextView when the view is loaded:

- (void) viewDidLoad {
     [textField addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"contentSize" options:(NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew) context:NULL];
     [super viewDidLoad];
}

Then add this method to adjust the contentOffset every time the contentSize value changes:

-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
     UITextView *tv = object;
     CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height * [tv zoomScale])/2.0;
     topCorrect = ( topCorrect < 0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect );
     tv.contentOffset = (CGPoint){.x = 0, .y = -topCorrect};
}