How to set the color of the place holder text for a UITextField while preserving its existing properties?

Question

I have seen some answers that show how to change the placeHolder text color for UITextField by overriding the drawPlaceholderInRect: method such as this one:

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Answer 1

The safe way to customize UITextField’s placeholder is subclassing the UITextField and overriding placeholderRectForBounds:, Apple won’t bother you on this one. However, if you want to take the risk, you can try this way:

[self.MyTextField setValue:[UIColor darkGrayColor] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

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