Setting UITextField not editable or editable

Question

I want to know how to disable UITextField, i.e I placed a UIButton in the frame of UITextField for design purpose.

When I tap my button in UITextField the keyboard appears, but I don't want the keyboard to be displayed!

Here is my code so far:

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
    return textField !=textfiled1;
    return textField !=textfiled2;
}

possible duplicate of [Easy way to disable a UITextField?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/599733/easy-way-to-disable-a-uitextfield) — Apoorv, Apr 23 '15 at 11:06

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 24 '21 at 13:13

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You can enable or disable user interaction on the textfield using this property:

textField.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

In Swift 5

textField.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

edited Mar 24 '21 at 13:13

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answered Apr 23 '15 at 11:16

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In swift 5 I use this: itemTextField.isUserInteractionEnabled = true – papesky Aug 09 '19 at 06:26
@papesky don't you mean " = false" – Andy Weinstein Jun 09 '20 at 18:34

vijeesh · Answer 2 · 2019-07-18T09:17:36.450

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- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
  return NO;
}

You can use this too

edited Jul 18 '19 at 09:17

answered Apr 23 '15 at 11:15

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This solution is more reliable as disabling userInteraction might have other problems. – Karthick Ramesh May 06 '19 at 03:24

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '19 at 14:22

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Accepted answer in Swift 4:

textField.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

answered Feb 21 '19 at 14:22

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 23 '15 at 11:21

I think your UIButton is not on UITextField. so bringToFromView first then your UIButton selector method called first. Because compiler check Event in hierarchy. if first control response the event then it wan't looking for next.

I have tested your scenario and its working fine at my end.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 12 '20 at 16:49

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swift version of my Obj-C Answer

   func textFieldShouldBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        return false
    }

answered Jun 12 '20 at 16:49

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 23 '15 at 11:09

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Use the below property.

textField.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

answered Apr 23 '15 at 11:09

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score -2 · Answer 7 · edited Apr 23 '15 at 11:23

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you can achieve this with the help of: If you want to disable editing you can do this textField.editable = NO;

and if you want to make it editable again you can do this
textField.editable = YES;

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answered Apr 23 '15 at 11:07

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I think you confused `UITextView` with `UITextField`. – heyfrank Jul 15 '19 at 13:18

Setting UITextField not editable or editable

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