diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift
index 3092b7c8..6d0ba707 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift
@@ -211,9 +211,10 @@ struct MainComposeWrappedTextView: UIViewRepresentable {
             let cursorRect = textView.caretRect(for: range.start)
             var rectToMakeVisible = textView.convert(cursorRect, to: scrollView)
             
-            // move Y position of the rect that will be made visible down by the cursor's height so that there's
+            // expand the rect to be three times the cursor height centered on the cursor so that there's
             // some space between the bottom of the line of text being edited and the top of the keyboard
-            rectToMakeVisible.origin.y += cursorRect.height
+            rectToMakeVisible.origin.y -= cursorRect.height
+            rectToMakeVisible.size.height *= 3
             
             let animator = UIViewPropertyAnimator(duration: 0.1, curve: .linear) {
                 scrollView.scrollRectToVisible(rectToMakeVisible, animated: false)