小心谨慎。

let attributes = [ NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.someColor ]
let placeHolderString = NSAttributedString(string: "DON'T_DELETE", attributes: attributes)
txtField.attributedPlaceholder = placeHolderString

需要注意的是，你必须在“DON'T_DELETE”所在的地方输入一个非空字符串，即使该字符串在其他地方的代码中设置了。也许能帮你省下五分钟的脑筋。

如果子类化你必须做layoutSubviews(不是在init) 奇怪的是，你不需要清除正常的占位符。如果你使用带属性的占位符，它知道不绘制占位符。

[txt_field setValue:ColorFromHEX(@"#525252") forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

你可以重写drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect来手动渲染占位符文本:

- (void) drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect {
    [[UIColor blueColor] setFill];
    [[self placeholder] drawInRect:rect withFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:16]];
}

在swift 3中。X

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder text", attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.black])

在swift 5中

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder text", attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.black])

斯威夫特的版本。也许能帮到别人。

class TextField: UITextField {
   override var placeholder: String? {
        didSet {
            let placeholderString = NSAttributedString(string: placeholder!, attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()])
            self.attributedPlaceholder = placeholderString
        }
    }
}

以下仅适用于iOS6+系统(如Alexander W的评论所示):

UIColor *color = [UIColor grayColor];
nameText.attributedPlaceholder =
   [[NSAttributedString alloc]
       initWithString:@"Full Name"
       attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:color}];