How to restrict UITextField to take only numbers in Swift?

Question

I want the user to only enter numeric values in a UITextField. On iPhone we can show the numeric keyboard, but on iPad the user can switch to any keyboard.

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution, you need to connect the event "Editing changed" to this method in your controller

Swift 4

@IBAction func valueChanged(_ sender: UITextField) {
    if let last = sender.text?.last {
        let zero: Character = "0"
        let num: Int = Int(UnicodeScalar(String(last))!.value - UnicodeScalar(String(zero))!.value)
        if (num < 0 || num > 9) {
            //remove the last character as it is invalid
            sender.text?.removeLast()
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

1st you have to inherit the UITextFieldDelegate class with you own class

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {

2nd add an IBOutlet

@IBOutlet weak var firstName: UITextField!

3rd you have to assure this object is using

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
   firstName.delegate = self
}


func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    if textField == firstName {
                let allowedCharacters = "1234567890"
                let allowedCharacterSet = CharacterSet(charactersIn: allowedCharacters)
                let typedCharacterSet = CharacterSet(charactersIn: string)
                let alphabet = allowedCharacterSet.isSuperset(of: typedCharacterSet)
                return alphabet


      }
  }

Answer 3

Swift 2.0

For only allowing numbers and one "." decimal in uitextfield.

func textField(textField: UITextField,shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange,replacementString string: String) -> Bool
{
    let newCharacters = NSCharacterSet(charactersInString: string)
    let boolIsNumber = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet().isSupersetOfSet(newCharacters)
    if boolIsNumber == true {
        return true
    } else {
        if string == "." {
            let countdots = textField.text!.componentsSeparatedByString(".").count - 1
            if countdots == 0 {
                return true
            } else {
                if countdots > 0 && string == "." {
                    return false
                } else {
                    return true
                }
            }
        } else {
            return false
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

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

        {
            let textString = (textField.text! as NSString).replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string)

            if textField == self.phoneTextField  && string.characters.count > 0{
                let numberOnly = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigits
                let strValid = numberOnly.contains(UnicodeScalar.init(string)!)
                return strValid && textString.characters.count <= 10
            }
            return true
        }

in above code is working in swift 3
NSCharacterSet.decimalDigits
You are also use letters only
NSCharacterSet.Letters
and uppercase,Lowercaseand,alphanumerics,whitespaces is used same code or See the Link

Answer 5

Dead simple solution for Double numbers (keep it mind that this is not the best user-friendly solution), in your UITextFieldDelegate delegate:

func textField(_ textField: UITextField,
               shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange,
               replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
        guard let currentString = textField.text as NSString? else {
            return false
        }
        let newString = currentString.replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string)
        return Double(newString) != nil
}

Answer 6

To allow only numbers and just one decimal operator, you can use this solution:

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    let isNumber = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet().isSupersetOfSet(NSCharacterSet(charactersInString: string))

    return isNumber || (string == NSNumberFormatter().decimalSeparator && textField.text?.containsString(string) == false)
}