How to change the UIPickerView text color?

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The default UIPickerView color for text is black. There has been some updates to the language in Swift4. I have found my own solution and answered below.

score 38 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 28 '19 at 23:34

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func pickerView(_ pickerView: UIPickerView, attributedTitleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) -> NSAttributedString? {
    return NSAttributedString(string: data[row], attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.yellow])        
}

edited Sep 28 '19 at 23:34

Elijah

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answered Jan 25 '18 at 20:47

Steve B

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score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 18 '18 at 08:30

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You could use:

pickerView.setValue(UIColor.yellow, forKeyPath: "textColor")

This will only change the color for the currently selected row.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9866686/5306470

edited Nov 18 '18 at 08:30

answered Jan 26 '18 at 07:59

Matthew Bradshaw

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This will only change the color as you move the picker view for me. – P1xelfehler Aug 19 '18 at 12:21

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '20 at 21:17

Updated for Swift 5:

func pickerView(_ pickerView: UIPickerView, attributedTitleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) -> NSAttributedString? {
    return NSAttributedString(string: parksPickerData[row], attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white])
}

score 7 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 19 '22 at 16:27

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In storyboard you can add textColor to Key Path:

edited Jun 19 '22 at 16:27

ChrisGPT was on strike

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answered Jun 14 '22 at 13:52

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ainareta685 · Answer 5 · 2019-09-30T15:04:40.283

I have a project with PickerViews and DatePickers (inside a TableViewCell), and I had to use a different sentence for each case.

For PickerViews:

func pickerView(_ pickerView: UIPickerView, attributedTitleForRow row: Int, forComponent component: Int) -> NSAttributedString? {
        let titleData = "data"
        let myTitle = NSAttributedString(string: titleData, attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.lightGray])

        return myTitle
    }

For DatePicker:

datePicker.setValue(UIColor.lightGray, forKey: "textColor")

How to change the UIPickerView text color?

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