How to restrict UITextField to take only numbers in Swift?

Question

Solution for swift 3.0 and above

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    let allowedCharacters = CharacterSet.decimalDigits
    let characterSet = CharacterSet(charactersIn: string)
    return allowedCharacters.isSuperset(of: characterSet)
}

Here is my 2 Cents. (Tested on Swift 2 Only)

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

  let aSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersInString:"0123456789").invertedSet
  let compSepByCharInSet = string.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(aSet)
  let numberFiltered = compSepByCharInSet.joinWithSeparator("")
  return string == numberFiltered

}

This is just a little bit more strict. No decimal point either.

Hope it helps :)

PS: I assumed you looked after the delegate anyway.

Update: Swift 3.0 :

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

    let aSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersIn:"0123456789").inverted
    let compSepByCharInSet = string.components(separatedBy: aSet)
    let numberFiltered = compSepByCharInSet.joined(separator: "")
    return string == numberFiltered
}

In swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.4.1

Add UITextFieldDelegate to your class

class YourViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate

Then write this code in your viewDidLoad()

mobileNoTF.delegate = self

Write this textfield delegate function

//MARK - UITextField Delegates
func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    //For mobile numer validation
    if textField == mobileNoTF {
        let allowedCharacters = CharacterSet(charactersIn:"+0123456789 ")//Here change this characters based on your requirement
        let characterSet = CharacterSet(charactersIn: string)
        return allowedCharacters.isSuperset(of: characterSet)
    }
    return true
}

Swift 2.0

For only allowing numbers and one "." decimal in uitextfield.

func textField(textField: UITextField,shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange,replacementString string: String) -> Bool
{
    let newCharacters = NSCharacterSet(charactersInString: string)
    let boolIsNumber = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet().isSupersetOfSet(newCharacters)
    if boolIsNumber == true {
        return true
    } else {
        if string == "." {
            let countdots = textField.text!.componentsSeparatedByString(".").count - 1
            if countdots == 0 {
                return true
            } else {
                if countdots > 0 && string == "." {
                    return false
                } else {
                    return true
                }
            }
        } else {
            return false
        }
    }
}

IPhone only solution

In whatever UITextField you're getting these values from, you can specify the kind of keyboard you want to appear when somebody touches inside the text field.

E.G. a numeric-only keyboard.

Like this screenshot:

Ipad

The iPad does not support the numeric keyboard, so your options are to either not support the iPad, validate the field post submit, or follow one of the other suggestions here to create same behaviors while running on an iPad.

Accept decimal values in text fields with single (.)dot in Swift 3

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    let inverseSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersIn:"0123456789").inverted

    let components = string.components(separatedBy: inverseSet)

    let filtered = components.joined(separator: "")

    if filtered == string {
        return true
    } else {
        if string == "." {
            let countdots = textField.text!.components(separatedBy:".").count - 1
            if countdots == 0 {
                return true
            }else{
                if countdots > 0 && string == "." {
                    return false
                } else {
                    return true
                }
            }
        }else{
            return false
        }
    }
}

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    // return true if the replacementString only contains numeric characters
    let digits = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet()
    for c in string {
        if !digits.characterIsMember(c) {
            return false
        }
    }

    return true
}

This solution will work even if the user switches keyboards or tries to paste a non-numeric string into the text field.

Make sure to set the delegate property of the appropriate text field.