Change of UITextField placeholder color

How to dynamically change placeholder color of the UITextField? This is always the same system color.

No option in xib editor.

From Docs

@property(nonatomic, copy) NSAttributedString *attributedPlaceholder

This property is nil by default. If set, the placeholder string is drawn using a 70% grey color and the remaining style information (except the text color) of the attributed string. Assigning a new value to this property also replaces the value of the placeholder property with the same string data, albeit without any formatting information. Assigning a new value to this property does not affect any other style-related properties of the text field.

Objective-C

NSAttributedString *str = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Some Text" attributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor redColor] }];
self.myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = str;

Swift

let str = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.redColor()])
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = str

Swift 4

let str = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.red])
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = str

_placeholderLabel.textColor

In swift

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = 
NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder", attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor()])

Objective-C

UIColor *color = [UIColor grayColor];
nameText.attributedPlaceholder =
   [[NSAttributedString alloc]
   initWithString:@"Full Name"
   attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:color}];

P.S Copied 3 different answers from Stackoverflow.

Use below code

[YourtextField setValue:[UIColor colorWithRed:97.0/255.0 green:1.0/255.0 blue:17.0/255.0 alpha:1.0] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

First add this extension

extension UITextField{
    @IBInspectable var placeHolderTextColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            let placeholderText = self.placeholder != nil ? self.placeholder! : ""
            attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string:placeholderText, attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName: newValue!])
        }
        get{
            return self.placeHolderTextColor
        }
    }
}

Then you can change placeholder text color via storyboard or by just setting it like this :

textfield.placeHolderTextColor = UIColor.red

I use this in SWIFT:

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor()])

It seems that this works for others... I have no idea why it haven't worked for me before... maybe some project settings. Thanks for the comments. Currently I have no way how to test it again.

Obsolete: But I don't know why, text is applied correctly, but placeholder color remains same (black/gray).

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