Max length UITextField

Question

When I\'ve tried How to you set the maximum number of characters that can be entered into a UITextField using swift?, I saw that if I use all 10 characters, I can\'t erase t

Answer 1

I posted a solution using IBInspectable, so you can change the max length value both in interface builder or programmatically. Check it out here

Answer 2

You can use in swift 5 or swift 4 like image look like bellow

1. Add textField in View Controller
2. Connect to text to ViewController

3. add the code in view ViewController

    class ViewController: UIViewController , UITextFieldDelegate {
   
     @IBOutlet weak var txtName: UITextField!
   
     var maxLen:Int = 8;
   
    override func viewDidLoad() {
       super.viewDidLoad()
   
       txtName.delegate = self
      }
   
    func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
   
        if(textField == txtName){
           let currentText = textField.text! + string
           return currentText.count <= maxLen
        }
   
        return true;
      }
   }
   

You can download Full Source form GitHub: https://github.com/enamul95/TextFieldMaxLen

Answer 3

Add More detail from @Martin answer

// linked your button here
@IBAction func mobileTFChanged(sender: AnyObject) {
    checkMaxLength(sender as! UITextField, maxLength: 10)
}

// linked your button here
@IBAction func citizenTFChanged(sender: AnyObject) {
    checkMaxLength(sender as! UITextField, maxLength: 13)
}

func checkMaxLength(textField: UITextField!, maxLength: Int) {
    // swift 1.0
    //if (count(textField.text!) > maxLength) {
    //    textField.deleteBackward()
    //}
    // swift 2.0
    if (textField.text!.characters.count > maxLength) {
        textField.deleteBackward()
    }
}

Answer 4

func checkMaxLength(textField: UITextField!, maxLength: Int) {
        if (textField.text!.characters.count > maxLength) {
            textField.deleteBackward()
        }
}

a small change for IOS 9

Answer 5

Beware of the undo bug for UITextField mentioned in this post: Set the maximum character length of a UITextField

here is how you fix it in swift

if(range.length + range.location > count(textField.text)) {
        return false;
}

Answer 6

Swift 3

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

            let nsString = NSString(string: textField.text!)
            let newText = nsString.replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string)
            return  newText.characters.count <= limitCount
    }