Cursor visibility issue in ios7

Question

Simply creating a UITextField in ios7 SDK but when I enter some input, text is shown UItextField but cursor isn't.

Any clue about what can be the problem?

Deepesh · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-30T09:48:11.503

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Change the tintColor of the UITextField with a cursor

  [mobileTextField setTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]];

if you are use the XIb please set the tin color of UITextField

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Note :- This is working on IOS 7+

edited Oct 30 '13 at 09:48

answered Oct 30 '13 at 09:42

Deepesh

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This worked, but I still don't understand why the default tint setting doesn't work. – bickster Oct 10 '14 at 15:47
Every day I hate Apple a little bit more for providing such a SDK... Much more fun doing Android apps. Thanks for this anyway! – Benjamin Piette Oct 16 '14 at 16:55
@bickster the issue is when you set the tint color to clear color or white color for your main view. Try changing that first. Then the textfields will be changed as well. – Sudhin Davis Jan 28 '16 at 05:39

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '15 at 09:18

As @Deepesh said, it's a matter of choosing the proper tint color. However it was not enough in my case since I am creating the UITextField programmatically and for some reason this setting is ignored.

- (UITextField *)textfieldPhotoTitle
{
    if (_textfieldPhotoTitle) {
        return _textfieldPhotoTitle;
    }

    _textfieldPhotoTitle = [[UITextField alloc] init];
    _textfieldPhotoTitle.placeholder = NSLocalizedString(@"PHOTO_UPLOAD_PHOTO_TITLE_PLACEHOLDER", @"");
    _textfieldPhotoTitle.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable;
    _textfieldPhotoTitle.layoutMinSize = CGSizeMake(0, 40);
    _textfieldPhotoTitle.layoutInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(11, 15, 9, 0);
    _textfieldPhotoTitle.tintColor = UIColor.blueColor; // IGNORED. NOT WORKING!!
    _textfieldPhotoTitle.delegate = self;

    return _textfieldPhotoTitle;
}

On the other hand, setting the color inside the textFieldDidBeginEditing did solve the issue:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    textField.tintColor = UIColor.blueColor;
}

Working in iOS8.

Thank you **textField.tintColor = UIColor.blueColor;** works well. — swiftBoy, Jul 13 '15 at 06:52

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '16 at 05:37

The issue is related to the tintColor of the UITextField.

The problem can be solved by setting the tintColor of the mainView holding the UITextField to default. Since this will affect all subviews in XCode 7. Anyway this solved my problem and working fine from ios 7 and above.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 03 '14 at 13:07

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Same issue coming for me when I had using UITextField. The scenario is when ever tapped on textfield, immediately remove the same view.

So, this issue resolved when I have used [view endEditing:YES];

Hope this will help you.

answered Feb 03 '14 at 13:07

Srithar Rajendran

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Cursor visibility issue in ios7

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