Disabling user input for UITextfield in swift

In storyboard you have two choise:

1. set the control's 'enable' to false.

2. set the view's 'user interaction enable' false

The diffierence between these choise is:

the appearance of UITextfild to display in the screen.

1. First is set the control's enable. You can see the backgroud color is changed.
2. Second is set the view's 'User interaction enable'. The backgroud color is NOT changed.

Within code:

1. textfield.enable = false

2. textfield.userInteractionEnabled = NO

   Updated for Swift 3

   1. textField.isEnabled = false
   2. textfield.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

If you want to do it while keeping the user interaction on. In my case I am using (or rather misusing) isFocused

self.myField.inputView = UIView()

This way it will focus but keyboard won't show up.

Another solution, declare your controller as UITextFieldDelegate, implement this call-back:

@IBOutlet weak var myTextField: UITextField!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    myTextField.delegate = self
}

func textFieldShouldBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
    if textField == myTextField {
        return false; //do not show keyboard nor cursor
    }
    return true
}

Try this:

Swift 2.0:

textField.userInteractionEnabled = false

Swift 3.0:

textField.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

Or in storyboard uncheck "User Interaction Enabled"