Disabling user input for UITextfield in swift

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pretty trivial question  I know  But I can not find anything online   I need to disable the user from being able to edit the text inside of a text field  So that when the click on the text  a keyboard doesn t show up   Any ideas   A programmatic solution or if it is possible through storyboards would be great

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If you want to do it while keeping the user interaction on  In my case I am using  or rather misusing  isFocused  self myField inputView   UIView     This way it will focus but keyboard won t show up

User · Answer

Try this   Swift 2 0   textField userInteractionEnabled   false   Swift 3 0   textField isUserInteractionEnabled   false   Or in storyboard uncheck  User Interaction Enabled

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In swift 5  I used following code to disable the textfield override func viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad      self textfield isEnabled   false      e g    self design isEnabled   false

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Swift 4 2   Xcode 10 1   Just uncheck behavior Enabled in your storyboard -  attributes inspector

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Another solution  declare your controller as UITextFieldDelegate  implement this call-back    IBOutlet weak var myTextField  UITextField   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad        myTextField delegate   self    func textFieldShouldBeginEditing textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       if textField    myTextField           return false    do not show keyboard nor cursor           return true

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In storyboard you have two choise    set the control s  enable  to false       set the view s  user interaction enable  false     The diffierence between these choise is   the appearance of UITextfild to display in the screen      First is set the control s enable  You can see the backgroud color is  changed  Second is set the view s  User interaction enable   The backgroud color is NOT changed    Within code    textfield enable   false textfield userInteractionEnabled   NO  Updated for Swift 3   textField isEnabled   false textfield isUserInteractionEnabled   false

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I like to do it like old times  You just use a custom UITextField Class like this one          ReadOnlyTextField swift     MediFormulas        Created by Oscar Rodriguez on 6 21 17      Copyright    2017 Nica Code  All rights reserved      import UIKit  class ReadOnlyTextField  UITextField                  Only override draw   if you perform custom drawing         An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation      override func draw   rect  CGRect               Drawing code                   override init frame  CGRect            super init frame  frame              Avoid keyboard to show up         self inputView   UIView              required init  coder aDecoder  NSCoder            super init coder  aDecoder              Avoid keyboard to show up         self inputView   UIView              override func canPerformAction   action  Selector  withSender sender  Any   - gt  Bool              Avoid cut and paste option show up         if  action     selector self cut                     return false           else if  action     selector self paste                     return false                    return super canPerformAction action  withSender  sender

User · Answer

you can use UILabel instead if you don t want the user to be able to modify anything in your UITextField  A programmatic solution would be to use enabled property   yourTextField enabled   false   A way to do it in a storyboard   Uncheck the Enabled checkbox in the properties of your UITextField

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