Change of UITextField placeholder color

Question

How to dynamically change placeholder color of the UITextField? This is always the same system color.

No option in xib editor.

Answer 1

From Docs

@property(nonatomic, copy) NSAttributedString *attributedPlaceholder

This property is nil by default. If set, the placeholder string is drawn using a 70% grey color and the remaining style information (except the text color) of the attributed string. Assigning a new value to this property also replaces the value of the placeholder property with the same string data, albeit without any formatting information. Assigning a new value to this property does not affect any other style-related properties of the text field.

Objective-C

NSAttributedString *str = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Some Text" attributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor redColor] }];
self.myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = str;

Swift

let str = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.redColor()])
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = str

Swift 4

let str = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.red])
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = str

Answer 2

You can use the following code

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

Answer 3

Swift 4

let placeholderColor = UIColor.red
self.passwordTextField?.attributedPlaceholder = 
NSAttributedString(string:"placeholderText", attributes: 
[NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : placeholderColor])

Answer 4

This solution works without any subclassing and without any private ivars:

@IBOutlet weak var emailTextField: UITextField! {
    didSet {
        if emailTextField != nil {
            let placeholderText = NSLocalizedString("Tap here to enter", comment: "Tap here to enter")
            let placeholderString = NSAttributedString(string: placeholderText, attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor(white: 0.66, alpha: 1.0)])
            emailTextField.attributedPlaceholder = placeholderString
        }
    }
}

Answer 5

Try This.

UIColor *color = [UIColor redColor];
self.txtUsername.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Your Placeholder Text" attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:color}];

Answer 6

_placeholderLabel.textColor

In swift

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = 
NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder", attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor()])

Objective-C

UIColor *color = [UIColor grayColor];
nameText.attributedPlaceholder =
   [[NSAttributedString alloc]
   initWithString:@"Full Name"
   attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:color}];

P.S Copied 3 different answers from Stackoverflow.