对于swift 4.2及以上版本，你可以这样做:

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "Placeholder Text", attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white])

对于Swift 4.0, X-code 9.1版本或iOS 11，您可以使用以下语法来拥有不同的占位符颜色

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "Placeholder Text", attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.white])

它更多的是个性化你的textField，但无论如何，我将分享这段代码从另一个页面，使它更好一点:

import UIKit
extension UITextField {
func setBottomLine(borderColor: UIColor, fontColor: UIColor, placeHolderColor:UIColor, placeHolder: String) {
    self.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.none
    self.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
    let borderLine = UIView()
    let height = 1.0
    borderLine.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: Double(self.frame.height) - height, width: Double(self.frame.width), height: height)
    self.textColor = fontColor
    borderLine.backgroundColor = borderColor
    self.addSubview(borderLine)
    self.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
        string: placeHolder,
        attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: placeHolderColor]
    )
  }
}

你可以这样使用它:

self.textField.setBottomLine(borderColor: lineColor, fontColor: fontColor, placeHolderColor: placeHolderColor, placeHolder: placeHolder)

知道你有一个UITextField连接到一个ViewController。

来源:http://codepany.com/blog/swift-3-custom-uitextfield-with-single-line-input/

在我的例子中，我使用Swift 4

我为UITextField创建扩展

extension UITextField {
    func placeholderColor(color: UIColor) {
        let attributeString = [
            NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: color.withAlphaComponent(0.6),
            NSAttributedStringKey.font: self.font!
            ] as [NSAttributedStringKey : Any]
        self.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: self.placeholder!, attributes: attributeString)
    }
}

yourField。placeholderColor(颜色:UIColor.white)

您可以使用带属性的字符串设置占位符文本。只需要把你想要的颜色传递给属性参数。

斯威夫特5:

let myTextField = UITextField(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 30))
myTextField.backgroundColor = .blue
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder Text",
    attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
)

斯威夫特3:

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder Text",
    attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
)

年长的迅速:

myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder Text",
    attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
)

对于Swift 3和3.1，这工作得非常好:

passField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "password", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white])