How to change keyboard background color in iOS?

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I would like to know how to change the keyboard background color programmatically in iOS? The background is normally grey but I have already seen black background (behind letters).

sorry about the close vote; I misread the question - edited for clarification. — Thomas Shields, Mar 15 '12 at 22:08

score 53 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 24 '19 at 18:28

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For the dark background use:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert;

Read to find more information about UITextInputTraits (use UIKeyboardAppearanceDark at iOS 7+).

edited Mar 24 '19 at 18:28

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answered Mar 15 '12 at 22:36

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score 38 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 27 '19 at 04:37

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To change it globally, you can use appearance proxy in AppDelegate... I've tested it in iOS 8, Swift:

UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearance.dark

edited Nov 27 '19 at 04:37

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answered Jul 29 '15 at 22:37

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This can also be used for setting the colour of the keyboard for swiftui – BrettS Jan 08 '20 at 17:29

score 27 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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In iOS 7, UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert is deprecated, so use this instead:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceDark;

If you need to support both earlier iOSes and iOS 7, and you've created the necessary macros (per https://stackoverflow.com/a/5337804/588253), you can use this:

mytextfield.keyboardAppearance = (SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(@"7.0") ? UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert : UIKeyboardAppearanceDark);

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answered Sep 24 '13 at 21:22

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Thanks for the answer above, I was wondering if you'd happen to know why this won't compile when I'm building for a target of iOS 6 and also supporting iOS7? – Oct 18 '13 at 15:19

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 13 '16 at 16:03

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Updating to swift 3.0

let textFieldAppearance = UITextField.appearance() textFieldAppearance.keyboardAppearance = .dark //.default//.light//.alert

answered Dec 13 '16 at 16:03

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Is there a reason not to do just UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = .dark ? – Leon Jun 14 '17 at 16:18
No, you can do this way too. – Emmanouil Nicolas Jun 19 '17 at 21:43
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I know, I was asking if there's a reason you don't do it the short way? – Leon Jun 20 '17 at 10:20
`UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = .dark` in AppDelegate will change the appearance globally. with this solution you can do it on specific text fields. – Nitin Nain Jul 23 '18 at 05:57

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 29 '19 at 16:33

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If you're using Interface Builder, you can set keyboard look in the Attributes Inspector:

answered Jan 29 '19 at 16:33

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 21 '19 at 10:56

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SWIFT 4+: in the AppDelegate

UITextField.appearance().keyboardAppearance = .dark

answered Apr 21 '19 at 10:56

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I need the same thing for UITextView but it doesn't exist. – randomcontrol Aug 20 '19 at 05:59
@randomcontrol Did you try `textView.keyboardAppearance`? The property comes from `UITextInputTraits` – Harry Ng Sep 25 '19 at 10:16

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 11 '19 at 13:18

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Today just use myTextField.keyboardAppearance = .dark

answered Dec 11 '19 at 13:18

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Good to know and happy to help! – Mike Apr 28 '21 at 18:39

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 25 '20 at 18:09

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Swift 5+ (TextView)

 textView.keyboardAppearance = .dark

answered Mar 25 '20 at 18:09

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 14 '22 at 17:37

In Objectve-C

For Dark Keyboard

[UITextField appearance].keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceDark;

For Light keyboard

[UITextField appearance].keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceLight;

You can define this in AppDelegate to handle this globally.

How to change keyboard background color in iOS?

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