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 letters).

Answer 1

For the dark background use:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert;

Read to find more information about UITextInputTraits (use UIKeyboardAppearanceDark at iOS 7+).

Answer 2

To change it globally, you can use appearance proxy in AppDelegate... I've tested it in iOS 8, Swift:

UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = .Dark

Answer 3

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 4

Updating to swift 3.0

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

SWIFT 4+: in the AppDelegate

UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = .dark