UITextView Cursor Color not changing iOS 7

Question

I'm trying to set the cursor color of a UITextView based on a user's preferences. They select what color they want with a button.

By default, the textview's cursor color is white. When the user presses the button, it might change to green:

[_textView setTintColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
[_textView setTextColor:[UIColor greenColor]];

I am sure that this method call is working because the textview's text changes color, just not the cursor...

My experience shows that calling `setTintColor:` changes the color of the text view's caret. — rmaddy, May 18 '14 at 18:48
@rmaddy I think this might be a bug in iOS 7.1 regarding global tints such as [UIView appearance] because there's nothing I'm doing that's out of the ordinary. This should work... — Apollo, May 18 '14 at 18:50
From my experience (in iOS7.1 as well), indeed tintColor sets the cursor color. — Léo Natan, May 18 '14 at 18:52
I just checked it: if I am not just in change mode, press the button, they text and the caret will change color. If I have the text in change mode, the caret's color will stay blue. — vikingosegundo, May 18 '14 at 18:53

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '14 at 18:57

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I was able to recreate your behavior: If I change the tint and text color while the text view isn't selected (aka: not first responder), everything will work as expected.

But if I first select it, by tapping it and than change the color by button press, they caret's (tint) color won't change.

Here is a workaround:

- (IBAction)changeColor:(id)sender 
{
    [_textView setTextColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
    [_textView setTintColor:[UIColor greenColor]];

    if([_textView isFirstResponder]){
        [_textView resignFirstResponder];
        [_textView becomeFirstResponder];
    }
}

answered May 18 '14 at 18:57

vikingosegundo

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I have views that are affected by keyboard appearance transitions and the resign/become calls above would cause some undesirable behavior. I was able to eliminate this by wrapping the calls like so: `[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO]; [_textView resignFirstResponder]; [_textView becomeFirstResponder]; [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];` – Travis Mar 16 '15 at 16:45
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You don't need to make this trick with changing responder status you just need to call `textView.tintColorDidChange()`. See details here https://stackoverflow.com/a/53332199/2742194 – Ilia Nov 16 '18 at 05:57

dr OX · Answer 2 · 2018-03-14T19:32:40.420

I'm using small hack in UITextViewDelegate method:

func textViewDidBeginEditing(_ textView: UITextView) {
    let color = textView.tintColor
    textView.tintColor = .clear
    textView.tintColor = color
}

UPD

more technological way:

1) implement method in extension:

extension UITextView {
    func resetTintColor(){
        let color = tintColor
        tintColor = .clear
        tintColor = color
    }
}

2) in an UITextViewDelegate implementation:

func textViewDidBeginEditing(_ textView: UITextView) {
    textView.resetTintColor()
}

Nikhil Manapure · Answer 3 · 2017-09-27T16:46:17.033

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You can use

[_textView reloadInputViews];

And in Swift

textView. reloadInputViews()

Then you won't need to handle keyboard incoming and going.

edited Sep 27 '17 at 16:46

answered Nov 08 '16 at 06:22

Nikhil Manapure

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It had worked for me very fine, `resignFirstResponder` and `becomeFirstResponder` was making keyboard view go and come back. May I know how are you implementing the solution and for what? – Nikhil Manapure Jul 25 '17 at 08:21
Basically, I set the text view's tintColor, then resignFirstResponder and becomeFirstResponder, then I call reloadInputViews after that. The animation is not happening, but the cursor is not changing its tint color. – Boon Jul 25 '17 at 11:22
I guess you have implemented it rightly, I will check the solution again for you and get back to you. But it had worked for me for the same scenario. – Nikhil Manapure Jul 25 '17 at 11:24

UITextView Cursor Color not changing iOS 7

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