Change UITextField and UITextView Cursor / Caret Color

Question

I\'m wondering about changing the color of the cursor / caret in a UITextField (And UITextView if its the same answer) in iOS. I\'ve seen answers f

Answer 1

I think If you want some custom colors you can go to Assets.xcassets folder, right click and select New Color Set, once you created you color you set, give it a name to reuse it.

And you can use it just like this :

import UIKit 

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        UITextField.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(named: "YOUR-COLOR-NAME")  #here
    }
}

Tested on macOS 10.15 / iOS 13 / Swift 5

Answer 2

Swift 3:

  UITextField.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.black
  UITextView.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.black

Answer 3

yourTextField.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

It works if you set it in code, 'cos somehow color trigger doesn't do it in the Interface Builder (Xcode 6.1.1). It suited well without a need to change any appearance proxy.

Answer 4

Durgesh's approach does work.

I also used such KVC solutions many times. Despite it seems to be undocumented, but it works. Frankly, you don't use any private methods here - only Key-Value Coding which is legal.

P.S. Yesterday my new app appeared at AppStore without any problems with this approach. And it is not the first case when I use KVC in changing some read-only properties (like navigatonBar) or private ivars.

Answer 5

For Interface Builder version with Swift

@IBOutlet weak var tvValue: UITextView! {
        didSet {
            tvValue.tintColor = .black
        }
    }

Answer 6

Note: This answer is out of date and should be used for pre-iOS 7 development only. See other answers for a 1 line solution using the appearance proxy in iOS 7.

I arrived at this question after I faced the same problem in a project I was working on.

I managed to create a solution that will be accepted by the AppStore review team as it does not use any existing Private APIs.

I have created a control called DGTextField that extends UITextField.