Change UITextField and UITextView Cursor Caret Color

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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 for OSX development  but nothing for iOS   Is this even possible

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For people searching the equivalent in SwiftUI for Textfield this is accentColor   TextField  Label   text   self textToBind  accentColor Color red

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If the UITextField is from UISearchBar then first get the textField from searchBar and then apply tintColor property   let textFieldInsideSearchBar   searchBar value forKey   searchField   as  UITextField textFieldInsideSearchBar  tintColor   UIColor lightGray

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It is only possible by accessing a private property and therefore may cause an Apple AppStore app rejection   take a look at this Stackoverflow question

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If you re targeting iOS 7   this has been made much easier   Simply change the tintColor of the field with a cursor using the appearance proxy and it will apply throughout the app   Swift 3 0   UITextField appearance   tintColor    black    Objective-C     UITextField appearance  setTintColor  UIColor blackColor      Same answer applies for an individual UITextField   Swift 3 0   myTextField tintColor    black    Objective-C   myTextField setTintColor  UIColor blackColor

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Note  This answer is out of date and should be used for pre-iOS 7 development only   See other answers for a 1 line solution using the appearance proxy in iOS 7   I arrived at this question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

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Swift 3     UITextField appearance   tintColor   UIColor black   UITextView appearance   tintColor   UIColor black

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Try  Its working for me     self textField valueForKey   textInputTraits   setValue  UIColor redColor  strong textforKey   insertionPointColor

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Swift 4  In viewDidLoad   just call below code   CODE SAMPLE    txtVComplaint is a textView  txtVComplaint tintColor   UIColor white  txtVComplaint tintColorDidChange

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This worked for me in swift   UITextField tintColor   UIColor blackColor     You can also set this in storyboard  https   stackoverflow com a 18759577 3075340

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Setting tintColor for UITextField and UITextView works differently  While for UITextField you don t need to call additional code after updating tintColor to change cursor color  but for UITextView you need   So after setting tintColor for UITextView  it doesn t matter in IB or in code  you need to call textView tintColorDidChange   in order to apply it  actually it will pass text view s config down to its subviews hierarchy

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With iOS7 you can simply change tintColor of the textField

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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

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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

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For Interface Builder version with Swift   IBOutlet weak var tvValue  UITextView            didSet               tvValue tintColor    black

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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

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A more general approach would be to set the UIView s appearance s tintColor   UIColor  myColor    UIColor purpleColor     UIView appearance  setTintColor myColor     Makes sense if you re using many default UI elements

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