How to limit iOS keyboard to numeric input

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The question pretty much says it all. Is there any way to have the iOS/iPhone keyboard default to numeric input?

possible duplicate of [how convert keyboard type in iphone](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6200941/how-convert-keyboard-type-in-iphone) — Jason, Sep 14 '11 at 00:31

score 60 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Set the keyboardType property of the UITextField to UIKeyboardTypeDecimalPad.

yourUITextField.keyboardType = .decimalPad

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Sep 14 '11 at 00:57

Ravi

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by doing this you get a keyboard that does not have a "return" or "ok" button, so the solution is more complex, I used UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPunctuation which gives the normal keyboard but shifted to the number input, it includes a return key. – godzilla Jun 05 '13 at 21:03
@godzilla : If you care for return key, you can use [IQKeyboardManager](https://github.com/hackiftekhar/IQKeyboardManager) which will add Done button on the top of keyboard and this library help you for other many issues... – Fahim Parkar Nov 20 '17 at 07:47

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '19 at 18:05

Objective-C:

Default to Numbers (but include - and . if you need to allow decimal or negative numbers):

myTextField1.keyboardType=UIKeyboardTypeNumbersAndPunctuation;

Default to Numbers (#s only for integer values)

myTextField1.keyboardType=UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;

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