diff --git a/nativescript-core/ui/html-view/html-view.ios.ts b/nativescript-core/ui/html-view/html-view.ios.ts
index f0cb9dcb4..3252c3626 100644
--- a/nativescript-core/ui/html-view/html-view.ios.ts
+++ b/nativescript-core/ui/html-view/html-view.ios.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 import {
     HtmlViewBase, View, layout, htmlProperty
 } from "./html-view-common";
+import { ios } from "../../utils/utils";
 
 export * from "./html-view-common";
 
+const majorVersion = ios.MajorVersion;
+
 export class HtmlView extends HtmlViewBase {
     nativeViewProtected: UITextView;
 
@@ -50,6 +53,14 @@ export class HtmlView extends HtmlViewBase {
     [htmlProperty.setNative](value: string) {
         const htmlString = NSString.stringWithString(value + "");
         const nsData = htmlString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUnicodeStringEncoding);
-        this.nativeViewProtected.attributedText = NSAttributedString.alloc().initWithDataOptionsDocumentAttributesError(nsData, <any>{ [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute]: NSHTMLTextDocumentType }, null);
+        this.nativeViewProtected.attributedText = NSAttributedString.alloc().initWithDataOptionsDocumentAttributesError(
+            nsData,
+            <any>{ [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute]: NSHTMLTextDocumentType },
+            null
+        );
+
+        if (majorVersion >= 13) {
+            this.nativeViewProtected.textColor = UIColor.labelColor;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/nativescript-core/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts b/nativescript-core/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts
index c7c07218b..4665757c0 100644
--- a/nativescript-core/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts
+++ b/nativescript-core/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
             this.nativeTextViewProtected.setAttributedTitleForState(attrText, UIControlState.Normal);
         }
         else {
+            if (majorVersion >= 13) {
+                this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = UIColor.labelColor;
+            }
+
             this.nativeTextViewProtected.attributedText = attrText;
         }
     }