Adding a line break to a UITextView

I have a UITextView that takes an NSString with formatting stringWithUTF8String. It is getting its values from a database and I want the text in the database to be rendered with breaks within the text. I tried using \n to do this but it gets rendered as text. Doing this in my information page of the app as straight text worked but I think the reason its not working when taking it from the database is because of the formatting.

Any suggestions?

If you want to add newline in Xcode5 / Xcode6 storyboard Attribute-Inspector (AI), you do it this way:

1. Drag out a UITextView.
2. Double-click it to edit text, place cursor where you want the paragraph break.
3. Hit alt-Enter a couple of times to create a blank line & paragraph.

Or, CTRL + Return make a new line.

You can now see the effect into output / View-mode in storyboard.

Expanding tc's answer a bit: when you have newlines in the string, you probably want to convert them to \n (that is, @"\\n" in Cocoa) then save to the database and, on getting the string BACK from the database, you probably want to convert those back to newlines. So you'd use code something like this:

NSString *saveString = [myTextField.text stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"\n" withString: @"\\n"];
// save it to the db
// ... later ...
NSString *dbString = // get the string from the db.
myTextField.text = [dbString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"\\n" withString: @"\n"];