diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts
index 6560adbe9..c53d2569f 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base.ios.ts
@@ -5,10 +5,14 @@ import {
     textTransformProperty, letterSpacingProperty, colorProperty, fontInternalProperty, lineHeightProperty,
     FormattedString, Span, Color, isBold, resetSymbol
 } from "./text-base-common";
-import { isString } from "../../utils/types";
 
 export * from "./text-base-common";
 
+import { isString } from "../../utils/types";
+import { ios } from "../../utils/utils";
+
+const majorVersion = ios.MajorVersion;
+
 export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 
     public nativeViewProtected: UITextField | UITextView | UILabel | UIButton;
@@ -134,7 +138,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
             paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = this.lineHeight;
             // make sure a possible previously set text alignment setting is not lost when line height is specified
             paragraphStyle.alignment = (<UITextField | UITextView | UILabel>this.nativeTextViewProtected).textAlignment;
-            if (this.nativeTextViewProtected instanceof  UILabel) {
+            if (this.nativeTextViewProtected instanceof UILabel) {
                 // make sure a possible previously set line break mode is not lost when line height is specified
                 paragraphStyle.lineBreakMode = this.nativeTextViewProtected.lineBreakMode;
             }
@@ -183,7 +187,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
             paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = style.lineHeight;
             // make sure a possible previously set text alignment setting is not lost when line height is specified
             paragraphStyle.alignment = (<UITextField | UITextView | UILabel>this.nativeTextViewProtected).textAlignment;
-            if (this.nativeTextViewProtected instanceof  UILabel) {
+            if (this.nativeTextViewProtected instanceof UILabel) {
                 // make sure a possible previously set line break mode is not lost when line height is specified
                 paragraphStyle.lineBreakMode = this.nativeTextViewProtected.lineBreakMode;
             }
@@ -194,18 +198,20 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
             dict.set(NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, paragraphStyle);
         }
 
-        if (style.color && (dict.size > 0 || isTextView)) {
-            dict.set(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, style.color.ios);
+        if (dict.size > 0 || isTextView) {
+            if (style.color) {
+                dict.set(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, style.color.ios);
+            } else if (majorVersion >= 13) {
+                dict.set(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, UIColor.labelColor);
+            }
         }
 
         const text = this.text;
         const string = (text === undefined || text === null) ? "" : text.toString();
         const source = getTransformedText(string, this.textTransform);
         if (dict.size > 0 || isTextView) {
-            if (isTextView) {
-                // UITextView's font seems to change inside.
-                dict.set(NSFontAttributeName, this.nativeTextViewProtected.font);
-            }
+            // UITextView's font seems to change inside.
+            dict.set(NSFontAttributeName, this.nativeTextViewProtected.font);
 
             const result = NSMutableAttributedString.alloc().initWithString(source);
             result.setAttributesRange(<any>dict, { location: 0, length: source.length });
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-view/text-view.ios.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-view/text-view.ios.ts
index 0b14b8c74..6a357e115 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-view/text-view.ios.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-view/text-view.ios.ts
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ import {
     CSSType
 } from "../editable-text-base";
 
-import { profile } from "../../profiling";
-
 export * from "../editable-text-base";
 
+import { profile } from "../../profiling";
+import { ios } from "../../utils/utils";
+
+const majorVersion = ios.MajorVersion;
+
 class UITextViewDelegateImpl extends NSObject implements UITextViewDelegate {
     public static ObjCProtocols = [UITextViewDelegate];
 
@@ -113,6 +116,9 @@ export class TextView extends EditableTextBase implements TextViewDefinition {
     private _isShowingHint: boolean;
     public _isEditing: boolean;
 
+    private getHintColor = () => majorVersion <= 12 ? UIColor.blackColor.colorWithAlphaComponent(0.22) : UIColor.placeholderTextColor;
+    private getTextColor = () => majorVersion <= 12 ? null : UIColor.labelColor;
+
     createNativeView() {
         const textView = NoScrollAnimationUITextView.new();
         if (!textView.font) {
@@ -173,7 +179,7 @@ export class TextView extends EditableTextBase implements TextViewDefinition {
                 // Use semi-transparent version of color for back-compatibility
                 this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = color.ios.colorWithAlphaComponent(0.22);
             } else {
-                this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = UIColor.blackColor.colorWithAlphaComponent(0.22);
+                this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = this.getHintColor();
             }
         } else {
             const color = this.style.color;
@@ -182,8 +188,8 @@ export class TextView extends EditableTextBase implements TextViewDefinition {
                 this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = color.ios;
                 this.nativeTextViewProtected.tintColor = color.ios;
             } else {
-                this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = null;
-                this.nativeTextViewProtected.tintColor = null;
+                this.nativeTextViewProtected.textColor = this.getTextColor();
+                this.nativeTextViewProtected.tintColor = this.getTextColor();
             }
         }
     }
@@ -329,4 +335,4 @@ export class TextView extends EditableTextBase implements TextViewDefinition {
     }
 }
 
-TextView.prototype.recycleNativeView = "auto";
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+TextView.prototype.recycleNativeView = "auto";