How to change UITextfield placeholder color and fontsize using swift 2.0?

Question

How to change UITextfield placeholder & fontsize in SWIFT 2.0?

Answer 1

It's easy to do with a subclass of UITextField.

Add placeholderColor property to easily set the color, and then observer changing of .placeholder to apply the color to it (with use of .attributedPlaceholder property)

var placeholderColor: UIColor = .lightGray

override var placeholder: String? {
    didSet {
        let attributes = [ NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: placeholderColor ]
        attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: placeholder ?? "", attributes: attributes)
    }
}

You do need to set the placeholder text programatically for the color to apply.