TextInput's placeholder is not being displayed initially with multiline set to true on iOS

[dylanrandle]

Current behaviour

On iOS, if multiline is true and label and placeholder both have a value, the placeholder is not displayed when you click on the input field. If you type something in, selected it all, and delete it, then the placeholder is displayed and works as expected. If you enter two lines of text into the text input and then erase them, then you will see the placeholder. See the video for an example of this behavior.

Expected behaviour

The placeholder should show up.

Code sample

<TextInput
    label="Label"
    placeholder="Placeholder"
    multiline
 />

Screenshots (if applicable)

What have you tried

This is still happening even though #1483 was closed.

Your Environment

software	version
ios or android	ios
react-native	0.64.3
react-native-paper	4.11.1
node	16
npm or yarn	yarn
expo sdk	44.0

[github-actions]

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Can you update the issue to include version numbers for those packages? The version numbers must match the format 1.2.3.

The versions mentioned in the issue for the following packages differ from the latest versions on npm:

• react-native (found: 0.64.3, latest: 0.68.0)
• react-native-paper (found: 4.11.1, latest: 4.12.0)

Can you verify that the issue still exists after upgrading to the latest versions of these packages?

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[alexpchin]

Any update on this issue? Thanks

[mehdinourollah]

"react-native-paper": "^4.12.3"
It's still open ...and for the love of god someone answer this issue without closing it automatically !

[raajnadar]

To keep the issue open a repro is required or else the bot will close it!!

If you still have the issue create a new one with a repro!!

[lukewalczak]

I will do my best to investigate that issue.

[lukewalczak]

The first investigation attempt presented that I was able to reproduce the problem on the fresh TextInput coming from react-native. Please check the following snack with simplified code, based on the input code from the library.
It looks like there is an issue related to setting placeholder value coming from props in correlation with multiline prop, no matter if wrapped in timeout.

[lukewalczak]

Created a workaround: #3331

[icgarlin]

Created a workaround: #3331

Workaround doesn't work at all