iPhone: Issue disabling Auto-Cap/autocorrect on a UITextField

Question

For some reason, even though I disable the auto-cap and auto-correct of my UITextField, it\'s still capitalizing the first letter of my input.

Here is the code:

Answer 1

Updated the correct answer for Swift 5

    textField.autocorrectionType = .no
    textField.autocapitalizationType = .none
    textField.spellCheckingType = .no

Answer 2

You're setting autocorrectionType to FALSE as if it were a BOOL, but it actually has type UITextAutocorrectionType. So FALSE is being interpreted as UITextAutocorrectionTypeDefault, which means that autocorrection is probably enabled.

I bet it found the name "Phil" in your address book and is autocorrecting the capitalization to match.

Answer 3

If you wish to disable Auto-Cap/autocorrect on a UITextField for whole project,

then make a class which will inherit the UITextField class and init method set the autoCorrectionType to "no".

Class AppTextField: UITextField {

     override init(frame: CGRect) {
         super.init(frame: frame)

         //setting the autocorrection to no
          self.autocorrectionType = .no
      }
}

Then in storyboard set the cusotom class for textfield to AppTextField.

Answer 4

Swift 2:

textField.autocorrectionType = .No
textField.autocapitalizationType = .None

Answer 5

Objective - C

-(void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    textField.autocorrectionType = FALSE; // or use  UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo
    textField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;

}

Swift

func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textfield : UITextField)
{
    textField.autocorrectionType = .No
    textField.autocapitalizationType = .None
    textField.spellCheckingType = .No
}

Swift3

  func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField : UITextField)
{
    textField.autocorrectionType = .no
    textField.autocapitalizationType = .none
    textField.spellCheckingType = .no
}

Answer 6

yourTextFieldName.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
yourTextFieldName.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;