diff --git a/frontend/ui/widget/textwidget.lua b/frontend/ui/widget/textwidget.lua
index d06b4bbde..7596677a0 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/widget/textwidget.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/widget/textwidget.lua
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+local UIManager = require("ui/uimanager")
 local Widget = require("ui/widget/widget")
 local Screen = require("device").screen
 local RenderText = require("ui/rendertext")
@@ -50,6 +51,9 @@ end
 function TextWidget:setText(text)
     self.text = text
     self:updateSize()
+    UIManager:setDirty(self.parent, function()
+        return "partial", self.dimen
+    end)
 end
 
 function TextWidget:paintTo(bb, x, y)