How to use store and use an NSMutableAttributedString in NSUserDefaults

Question

I want to create an attributed string, then store it in NSUserDefaults, and then access it again and assign the attributed string to textView.attributedText. How do I go about this? Thanks in advance.

I don't know a lot of objective c, so I could not refer to this answer

you would have to save just the string and re-add the effects, u can get the string from attString.string — Sean Lintern, Apr 29 '16 at 13:57
I suppose you could use NSKeyedArchiver to store the attributed string. — Eric Aya, Apr 29 '16 at 14:08
Possible duplicate of [Saving rich text in NSUserDefaults](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18131373/saving-rich-text-in-nsuserdefaults) — fsb, Apr 29 '16 at 14:17

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '16 at 14:25

You have to convert your NSMutableAttributedString into NSData then you store it in NSUserDefaults.

    // Convert into NSData
    let data = NSKeyedArchiver.archivedDataWithRootObject(distanceMutableAttributedString)
    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(data, forKey: "yourStringIntoData")

    // Convert your NSData to NSMutableAttributedString
    let yourStringInData = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("yourStringIntoData") as? NSData
    let newStr = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectWithData(yourStringInData!) as? NSMutableAttributedString

   // Assign it to your textView
    textView.attributedText = newStr

How to use store and use an NSMutableAttributedString in NSUserDefaults

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