Set text color and font for UIDatePicker in iOS8/Swift

Question

I\'ve been having trouble trying to set the UIDatePicker font and color. Everything else in my app was fairly straightforward to adjust except

Answer 1

Changing the date mode to something else seems to force a re-draw with the newly set text color.

datePicker.setValue(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKeyPath: "textColor")
datePicker.datePickerMode = .CountDownTimer
datePicker.datePickerMode = .DateAndTime //or whatever your original mode was

Answer 2

You can set value using forKeyPath: "textColor". The code:

datePicker.setValue(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKeyPath: "textColor")

where datePicker is your UIDatePicker object, and the first parameter is the color that you want

Answer 3

This worked for me:

setting text color for all date picker subviews

for view in datePicker.subviews {
    view.setValue(UIColor.white, forKeyPath: "textColor")
}

Answer 4

In Xcode 11.5, iOS 13, mode is set automatically, by setting the date picker colors in your storyboard as follows:

background: systemBackgroundColor text: labelColor

This results in the following:

I found that I also had to set the interface style in the simulator settings: