I'm not currently shipping any applications which use MPTextView. It's completely untested on iOS 7 and later. I recommend maintaining a fork with iOS 7+ support, or evaluating an alternative project such as SZTextView.

A UITextView subclass with support for placeholder text (similar to UITextField)

• The property is named .placeholderText to avoid colliding with .placeholder if UITextView gains that property in a future version of iOS.
• Some setters on UITextView are overridden to pass font and text alignment data through to the placeholder label. setAttributedText: has not been.

This has been tested on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.4, and in the iOS 6.1 Simulator for both non-Retina and Retina iPads.

Open an issue if you have any problems!