How to change keyboard background color in iOS?

Question

I would like to know how to change the keyboard background color programmatically in iOS? The background is normally grey but I have already seen black background (behind le

Answer 1

Today just use myTextField.keyboardAppearance = .dark

Answer 2

Updating to swift 3.0

let textFieldAppearance = UITextField.appearance() textFieldAppearance.keyboardAppearance = .dark //.default//.light//.alert

Answer 3

If you're using Interface Builder, you can set keyboard look in the Attributes Inspector:

Answer 4

In iOS 7, UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert is deprecated, so use this instead:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceDark;

If you need to support both earlier iOSes and iOS 7, and you've created the necessary macros (per https://stackoverflow.com/a/5337804/588253), you can use this:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = (SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(@"7.0") ? UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert : UIKeyboardAppearanceDark);

Answer 5

SWIFT 4+: in the AppDelegate

UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = .dark

Answer 6

Swift 5+ (TextView)

 textView.keyboardAppearance = .dark