Disable Past Date in UIDatePicker in IPhone Objective C

Question

I am new to Objective C and IPhone development.

I am using a UIDatePicker in my IPhone Application and my requirement is to allow the user to choose the future date only from the DatePicker.

To do this i want to disable past date & time in DatePicker only instead of putting a compare validation in the code.

Is this possible or there is an option to disable the past date in the DatePicker control itself.

score 149 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 08:30

149

Did you try this

[picker setMinimumDate: [NSDate date]];

answered Mar 14 '11 at 08:30

visakh7

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score 28 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 11:37

28

Use the following line,to disable the previous dates of an UIDatePicker.

[picker setMinimumDate: [NSDate date]];

The current date is displayed as shown below

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answered Nov 21 '13 at 11:37

Madhu

score 27 · Answer 3 · 2018-06-21T11:13:10.217

27

For Swift :

let todaysDate = Date()

datePicker.minimumDate = todaysDate

It will not let the user to pick a date older than Today

OR

Or, if you want to reduce the code, use following way:

datePicker.minimumDate = Date()

edited Jun 21 '18 at 11:13

answered Aug 30 '16 at 14:14

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