有通用的解决方案设置最大长度在Swift。 通过IBInspectable，你可以在Xcode属性检查器中添加新的属性。

import UIKit
private var maxLengths = [UITextField: Int]()
extension UITextField {

    @IBInspectable var maxLength: Int {
        get {
            guard let length = maxLengths[self]
            else {
                return Int.max
            }
            return length
        }
        set {
            maxLengths[self] = newValue
            addTarget(
                self,
                action: Selector("limitLength:"),
                forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingChanged
            )
        }
    }

    func limitLength(textField: UITextField) {
        guard let prospectiveText = textField.text
            where prospectiveText.characters.count > maxLength else {
                return
        }
        let selection = selectedTextRange
        text = prospectiveText.substringWithRange(
            Range<String.Index>(prospectiveText.startIndex ..< prospectiveText.startIndex.advancedBy(maxLength))
        )
        selectedTextRange = selection
    }

}

稍微超出了回答原来的问题，并扩展了Frouo的答案，这里有扩展来修剪空白字符串和最大长度，并利用这些字符串扩展来修剪UITextField到最大长度:

// In String_Extensions.swift

extension String {

  func trimmedString() -> String {
    var trimmedString = self.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet())
    let components = trimmedString.componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()).filter { count($0) > 0 }
    return " ".join(components)
  }

  func trimmedStringToMaxLength(maxLength: Int) -> String {
    return trimmedString().substringToIndex(advance(startIndex, min(count(self), maxLength))).trimmedString()
  }

}

// In UITextField_Extensions.swift

private var maxLengthDictionary = [UITextField : Int]()
private var textFieldMaxLength = 20

extension UITextField {

  @IBInspectable var maxLength: Int {
    get {
      if let maxLength = maxLengthDictionary[self] {
        return maxLength
      } else {
        return textFieldMaxLength
      }
    }
    set {
      maxLengthDictionary[self] = newValue < textFieldMaxLength + 1 ? newValue : textFieldMaxLength
    }
  }

  func trimAndLimitToMaxLength() {
    text = text.trimmedStringToMaxLength(maxLength)
  }

}

let someTextField = UITextField()
let someString = "   This   is   a   string   that   is longer than allowable for a text field.   "
someTextField.text = someString
someTextField.trimAndLimitToMaxLength()
println(someTextField.text) // Prints "This is a string tha"
let anotherTextField = UITextField()
anotherTextField.maxLength = 5
anotherTextField.text = someString
anotherTextField.trimAndLimitToMaxLength()
println(anotherTextField.text) // Prints "This"

trimAndLimitToMaxLength() could be used in UITextFieldDelegate's textFieldDidEndEditing(_:) so that a user could enter or paste in a longer than acceptable string and then shorten it vs. just cutting off the input at the max length. In doing this, I would also set attributed text styles to indicate any portion of the text that goes beyond the acceptable length (e.g., [NSBackgroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor(), NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.whiteColor(), NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName : NSNumber(int: 1)]

如果您限制文本计数的目的是确保文本可以适合其他地方的UILabel，那么我会避免使用字符计数。它会因为一些表情符号而崩溃(试图截断一个两倍大小的表情符号可能会导致应用程序崩溃)。这也是一些语言(如日语和汉语)的问题，它们有两步输入过程，简单的计数是行不通的。

我构建了一个UITextField下拉子类(MPC_CharacterLimitedTextField在github)。你输入预期的输出标签宽度，它将处理所有语言、表情符号和粘贴问题。不管字符数是多少，它只会收获符合标签的完整字符数。项目中有一个演示，所以你可以测试它，看看它是否是你需要的。希望它能帮助到和我一样有输出长度问题的人。

Swift 3版本 //*****这将不工作与Swift 2.x!* * * * * / /

首先创建一个新的Swift文件:TextFieldMaxLength.swift， 然后添加下面的代码:

import UIKit

private var maxLengths = [UITextField: Int]()

extension UITextField {

   @IBInspectable var maxLength: Int {

      get {

          guard let length = maxLengths[self] 
             else {
                return Int.max
      }
      return length
   }
   set {
      maxLengths[self] = newValue
      addTarget(
         self,
         action: #selector(limitLength),
         for: UIControlEvents.editingChanged
      )
   }
}
func limitLength(textField: UITextField) {
    guard let prospectiveText = textField.text,
        prospectiveText.characters.count > maxLength
    else {
        return
    }

   let selection = selectedTextRange
   let maxCharIndex = prospectiveText.index(prospectiveText.startIndex, offsetBy: maxLength)
   text = prospectiveText.substring(to: maxCharIndex)
   selectedTextRange = selection
   }
}

然后你会看到在故事板一个新的字段(最大长度)当你选择任何TextField

如果你还有更多问题，请查看这个链接:http://www.globalnerdy.com/2016/05/18/ios-programming-trick-how-to-use-xcode-to-set-a-text-fields-maximum-length-visual-studio-style/

我模拟实际的字符串替换，计算未来字符串的长度:

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

    NSString *newString = [textField.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:string];

    if([newString length] > maxLength)
       return NO;

    return YES;
}

Swift 4 + 2。

通过实现UITextFieldDelegate方法

ViewController: class MyViewController: UIViewController { let MAX_LENGTH = 256 @IBOutlet weak var myTextField: UITextField! override viewDidLoad() { self.myTextField.delegate = self } } Delegate: extension MyViewController: UITextFieldDelegate { func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool { let userText = textView.text ?? "" var newText = "" if range.length > 0 { let txt = NSString(string: userText) if txt.length > 0 { newText = txt.replacingCharacters(in: range, with: text) } } else { newText = userText + text } return newText.count <= MAX_LENGTH } }