UITextField "value changed" not firing when field is updated

To get EditingChanged textfield event, I suggested add selector as

[textField addTarget:self action:@selector(textChanged:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingChanged];

As textfield value changed, the changed value you will get from this textChanged: selector.

-(void)textChanged:(UITextField *)textField
{
    NSLog(@"textfield data %@ ",textField.text);
}

Don't use UIControlEventValueChanged for UITextField. What you want is UIControlEventEditingChanged.

IF you are assigning a delegate to the text field then note that (when you return NO from the delegate method below, the event (Editing changed) won't be triggered. Consider invoking the event listener when you do return NO from this method

(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string