Add Placeholder to UITextField, how to set the placeholder text programmatically in swift?

Question

I'm pulling out a phone number from a database, and when the user begins editing in the text field to change that phone number I'd like to use the number I currently have in the database as the placeholder. Since this information changes with each user, how can I set it programmatically in swift?

Answer 1

You need to get the phone number from your database first (convert them to String), then you set placeholder of your textField to that String, like so

 textField.placeholder = phoneNumberString

Answer 2

Swift 3

If your textField has text, you need to first set text property to nil, then set placeholder text:

textField.text = nil
textField.placeholder = "My Placeholder Text"

Answer 3

Important to note for anyone else reading this, setting placeholder text in the main.storyboard seems to nullify this solution, so I had to first clear out my placeholders in the storyboard before implementing this. Once that was done @Khuong and @Himanshu's answer worked perfectly.

Answer 4

Apply this line of code in to View Did Load

new_Password.attributedPlaceholder =
            NSAttributedString(string: " New Password", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white]) // new_Password : our text feild name

Answer 5

Fetch your desired data from your database (Core data) and after converting it into string format... say phoneString

use this line to set this string as a placeholder text

phoneTextField.placeholder = phoneString

Answer 6

Objective-C code:

[usernameText setPlaceholder:@"My Placeholder Text"];