Iphone Uitextfield - Change Placeholder Text Color

iPhone UITextField - Change placeholder text color

You can override drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect as such to manually render the placeholder text:

- (void) drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect {
    [[UIColor blueColor] setFill];
    [[self placeholder] drawInRect:rect withFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:16]];
}

Changing Placeholder Text Color with Swift

You can set the placeholder text using an attributed string. Just pass the color you want to the attributes parameter.

Swift 5:

let myTextField = UITextField(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 30))
myTextField.backgroundColor = .blue
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder Text",
    attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
)

Swift 3:

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder Text",
    attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
)

Older Swift:

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder Text",
    attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
)

UITextField placeholder text is unreadable in iOS13 dark mode

It turns out Apple has provided a way to override this on various elements (or even your entire app's UIWindow) with the following (Objective-C):

if (@available(iOS 13.0, *)) {
    textField.overrideUserInterfaceStyle = UIUserInterfaceStyleLight;
}

I applied it to all UITextFields via swizzle, to turn it off on EVERYTHING in your project, just use this in your appDelegate didFinishLaunching method but replace textField with _window

(IMPORTANT EDIT: with the newest version of xCode _window seems to have been dropped and now app projects create something called a SceneDelegate and the overrideUserInterfaceStyle has to be applied to that somehow, but I'm new to scene delegates and don't know how they work so I can't offer much help there, to disable scenedelegate and return to traditional AppDelegate management of the UIWindow, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57467270/2057171)

Change placeholder text color on swift

You can set the placeholder text using an Attributed string. Set color to attributes
Property.

   textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string:"placeholder text",
   attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.yellowColor()])

Swift 5

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string:"placeholder text", attributes:[NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.yellow])

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