[ios] How can I use UserDefaults in Swift?

How can I use UserDefaults to save/retrieve strings, booleans and other data in Swift?

You can use NSUserDefaults in swift this way,

@IBAction func writeButton(sender: UIButton)
{
    let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
    defaults.setObject("defaultvalue", forKey: "userNameKey")

}

@IBAction func readButton(sender: UIButton)
{
    let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
    let name = defaults.stringForKey("userNameKey")
    println(name) //Prints defaultvalue in console
}

I saved NSDictionary normally and able to get it correctly.

 dictForaddress = placemark.addressDictionary! as NSDictionary
        let userDefaults = UserDefaults.standard
        userDefaults.set(dictForaddress, forKey:Constants.kAddressOfUser)

// For getting data from NSDictionary.

let userDefaults = UserDefaults.standard
    let dictAddress = userDefaults.object(forKey: Constants.kAddressOfUser) as! NSDictionary

Swift 4 :

Store

    UserDefaults.standard.set(object/value, forKey: "key_name")

Retrive

    var returnValue: [datatype]? = UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "key_name") as? [datatype]

Remove

    UserDefaults.standard.removeObject(forKey:"key_name") 

UserDefault+Helper.swift

import UIKit

private enum Defaults: String {
   case countryCode = "countryCode"
   case userloginId   = "userloginid"
}

final class UserDefaultHelper {

static var countryCode: String? {
    set{
        _set(value: newValue, key: .countryCode)
    } get {
        return _get(valueForKay: .countryCode) as? String ?? ""
    }
}

static var userloginId: String? {
    set{
        _set(value: newValue, key: .userloginId)
    } get {
        return _get(valueForKay: .userloginId) as? String ?? ""
    }
}

private static func _set(value: Any?, key: Defaults) {
    UserDefaults.standard.set(value, forKey: key.rawValue)
}

private static func _get(valueForKay key: Defaults)-> Any? {
    return UserDefaults.standard.value(forKey: key.rawValue)
}

static func deleteCountryCode() {
    UserDefaults.standard.removeObject(forKey: Defaults.countryCode.rawValue)
 }

static func deleteUserLoginId() {
    UserDefaults.standard.removeObject(forKey: Defaults.userloginId.rawValue)
 }
}

Usage:

Save Value:

UserDefaultHelper.userloginId = data["user_id"] as? String

Fetch Value:

let userloginid = UserDefaultHelper.userloginId

Delete Value:

UserDefaultHelper.deleteUserLoginId()

In class A, set value for key:

let text = "hai"  
UserDefaults.standard.setValue(text, forKey: "textValue")

In class B, get the value for the text using the key which declared in class A and assign it to respective variable which you need:

var valueOfText  = UserDefaults.value(forKey: "textValue")

Swift 5 and above:

let defaults = UserDefaults.standard

defaults.set(25, forKey: "Age")
let savedInteger = defaults.integer(forKey: "Age")

defaults.set(true, forKey: "UseFaceID")
let savedBoolean = defaults.bool(forKey: "UseFaceID")

defaults.set(CGFloat.pi, forKey: "Pi")
defaults.set("Your Name", forKey: "Name")
defaults.set(Date(), forKey: "LastRun")


let array = ["Hello", "World"]
defaults.set(array, forKey: "SavedArray")


let savedArray = defaults.object(forKey: "SavedArray") as? [String] ?? [String()

let dict = ["Name": "Your", "Country": "YourCountry"]
defaults.set(dict, forKey: "SavedDict")

let savedDictionary = defaults.object(forKey: "SavedDictionary") as? [String: String] ?? [String: String]()

:)

Best way to use UserDefaults

Steps

1. Create extension of UserDefaults
2. Create enum with required Keys to store in local
3. Store and retrieve the local data wherever you want

Sample

extension UserDefaults{

    //MARK: Check Login
    func setLoggedIn(value: Bool) {
        set(value, forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.isLoggedIn.rawValue)
        //synchronize()
    }

    func isLoggedIn()-> Bool {
        return bool(forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.isLoggedIn.rawValue)
    }

    //MARK: Save User Data
    func setUserID(value: Int){
        set(value, forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.userID.rawValue)
        //synchronize()
    }

    //MARK: Retrieve User Data
    func getUserID() -> Int{
        return integer(forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.userID.rawValue)
    }
}

enum for Keys used to store data

enum UserDefaultsKeys : String {
    case isLoggedIn
    case userID
}

Save in UserDefaults where you want

UserDefaults.standard.setLoggedIn(value: true)          // String
UserDefaults.standard.setUserID(value: result.User.id!) // String

Retrieve data anywhere in app

print("ID : \(UserDefaults.standard.getUserID())")
UserDefaults.standard.getUserID()

Remove Values

UserDefaults.standard.removeObject(forKey: UserDefaultsKeys.userID) 

This way you can store primitive data in best

Update You need no use synchronize() to store the values. As @Moritz pointed out the it unnecessary and given the article about it.Check comments for more detail

I would say Anbu's answer perfectly fine but I had to add guard while fetching preferences to make my program doesn't fail

Here is the updated code snip in Swift 5

Storing data in UserDefaults

@IBAction func savePreferenceData(_ sender: Any) {
        print("Storing data..")
        UserDefaults.standard.set("RDC", forKey: "UserName") //String
        UserDefaults.standard.set("TestPass", forKey: "Passowrd")  //String
        UserDefaults.standard.set(21, forKey: "Age")  //Integer

    }

Fetching data from UserDefaults

    @IBAction func fetchPreferenceData(_ sender: Any) {
        print("Fetching data..")

        //added guard
        guard let uName = UserDefaults.standard.string(forKey: "UserName") else { return }
        print("User Name is :"+uName)
        print(UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "Age"))
    }

Swift 4, I have used Enum for handling UserDefaults.

This is just a sample code. You can customize it as per your requirements.

For Storing, Retrieving, Removing. In this way just add a key for your UserDefaults key to the enum. Handle values while getting and storing according to dataType and your requirements.

enum UserDefaultsConstant : String {
    case AuthToken, FcmToken

    static let defaults = UserDefaults.standard


   //Store
    func setValue(value : Any) {
        switch self {
        case .AuthToken,.FcmToken:
            if let _ = value as? String {
                UserDefaults.standard.set(value, forKey: self.rawValue)
            }
            break
        }

        UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()
    }

   //Retrieve
    func getValue() -> Any? {
        switch self {
        case .AuthToken:
            if(UserDefaults.standard.value(forKey: UserDefaultsConstant.AuthToken.rawValue) != nil) {

                return "Bearer "+(UserDefaults.standard.value(forKey: UserDefaultsConstant.AuthToken.rawValue) as! String)
            }
            else {
                return ""
            }

        case .FcmToken:

            if(UserDefaults.standard.value(forKey: UserDefaultsConstant.FcmToken.rawValue) != nil) {
                print(UserDefaults.standard.value(forKey: UserDefaultsConstant.FcmToken.rawValue))
                return (UserDefaults.standard.value(forKey: UserDefaultsConstant.FcmToken.rawValue) as! String)
            }
            else {
                return ""
            }
        }
    }

    //Remove
    func removeValue() {
        UserDefaults.standard.removeObject(forKey: self.rawValue)
        UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()
    }
}

For storing a value in userdefaults,

if let authToken = resp.data?.token {
     UserDefaultsConstant.AuthToken.setValue(value: authToken)
    }

For retrieving a value from userdefaults,

//As AuthToken value is a string
    (UserDefaultsConstant.AuthToken.getValue() as! String)

class UserDefaults_WorstPresidentName {
    static let key = "appname.worstPresidentName"

    static var value: String? {
        get {
            return UserDefaults.standard.string(forKey: key)
        }
        set {
            if newValue != nil {
                UserDefaults.standard.set(newValue, forKey: key)
            } else {
                UserDefaults.standard.removeObject(forKey: key)
            }
        }
    }
}

//Save
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject("yourString", forKey: "YourStringKey")

//retrive
let yourStr : AnyObject? = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("YourStringKey")