Clear button on UITextField

Question

I have a UITextField with date picker, and I want to use the default built in button to clear the text field, it doesn't seems to work.

I tried overriding

func textFieldShouldClear(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        searchBar.text = "" //my textfield is called searchBar and I tried to clear the text like that
        return true
    }

It seems that the method is called and printing the textfield says its empty but its not and in the view shows the last date I entered. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

check this. https://stackoverflow.com/q/320078/6783598 . searchBar.clearButtonMode = .whileEditing — Ben Rockey, Jun 10 '19 at 07:12
I tried that, I am using the textfield either like a normal textfield or with date picker, when its not a date picker its all good and clear button is working, I guess it is something to do with the date picker, but I can't figure it out yet. — Ivan Mirchev, Jun 10 '19 at 07:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 07:14

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You are searching this: textfield.clearButtonMode

answered Jun 10 '19 at 07:14

Alastar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 07:14

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Have you tried to replace searchBar with textField (local variable) in the function like this?

func textFieldShouldClear(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        textField.text = "" // use local variable textfield here
        return true
    }

answered Jun 10 '19 at 07:14

Richard R

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 07:33

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I found out that clear button is updating the text field and still takes the date from the date picker... Now I am trying to clear the value of the date picker maybe this will work.

answered Jun 10 '19 at 07:33

Ivan Mirchev

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Clear button on UITextField

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