diff --git a/apps/ui-tests-app/web-view/wvlocal.xml b/apps/ui-tests-app/web-view/wvlocal.xml
index 81e59b05b..c0a187d35 100644
--- a/apps/ui-tests-app/web-view/wvlocal.xml
+++ b/apps/ui-tests-app/web-view/wvlocal.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <Page>
   <StackLayout orientation="vertical">
     <WebView src="~/web-view/test.html" height="50" />
-    <WebView src="&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;img src='./pages/test2.png'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;" height="75" />
+    <WebView src="&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;img src='./ui-tests-app/pages/test2.png'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;" height="75" />
   </StackLayout>
 </Page>
diff --git a/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts b/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts
index 205107953..932a4eaaf 100644
--- a/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts
+++ b/ui/web-view/web-view.ios.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import common = require("./web-view-common");
 import trace = require("trace");
+import fs = require("file-system");
 
 global.moduleMerge(common, exports);
 
@@ -99,8 +100,8 @@ export class WebView extends common.WebView {
         this._ios.loadRequest(NSURLRequest.requestWithURL(NSURL.URLWithString(src)));
     }
 
-    public _loadData(src: string) {
-        this._ios.loadHTMLStringBaseURL(src, null);
+    public _loadData(content: string) {
+        this._ios.loadHTMLStringBaseURL(content, NSURL.alloc().initWithString(`file:///${fs.knownFolders.currentApp().path}/`));
     }
 
     get canGoBack(): boolean {