How to add TextField to UIAlertController in Swift

To add a text field in Swift 3.0:

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
    let textField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
    // do something with textField
}))
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil))
alertController.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Search"
})   
self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift 5.1

alert.addTextField { (textField) in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
}

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Use this code, I am running this code in my app successfully.

@IBAction func addButtonClicked(sender : AnyObject){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
    }
    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
        let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
    })
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: {
        (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
    }
    
    alertController.addAction(saveAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
    
    self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Edited: Swift 3.0 version

@IBAction func addButtonClicked(_ sender: UIButton){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
    }
    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
        let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
        print("firstName \(firstTextField.text), secondName \(secondTextField.text)")
    })
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default, handler: { (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
    }

    alertController.addAction(saveAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
    
    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

So I started checking to see what could possibly have been different in my code to the working code. I noticed that my ViewController extends

UITextFieldDelegate

Which apparently means that I need to set the delegate of any child UITextView:

alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
    searchTextField = textField
    searchTextField?.delegate = self //REQUIRED
    searchTextField?.placeholder = "Enter your search terms"
}

Solution:

Swift 4.2

Try the following lines and see if it works:

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)

alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
}

let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
    let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
    let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
})

let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default, handler: nil )

alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
}

alertController.addAction(saveAction)
alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Hope it helps.