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I need to move cursor to start text position on set focus on the textfield. Is it possible tot do?

ArisRS
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Set your view controller (or some other appropriate object) as the text field's delegate and implement the textFieldDidBeginEditing: method like this:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    UITextPosition *beginning = [textField beginningOfDocument];
    [textField setSelectedTextRange:[textField textRangeFromPosition:beginning
                                                          toPosition:beginning]];
}

Note that setSelectedTextRange: is a protocol method of UITextInput (which UITextField implements), so you won't find it directly in the UITextField documentation.

omz
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  • I set this code but it dose not work for me and textfield's cursor dose not set at end of text. can help me? – Bita Oct 13 '20 at 07:26
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self.selectedTextRange = [self textRangeFromPosition:newPos toPosition:newPos];

Check this Finding the cursor position in a UITextField

Anoop Vaidya
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If anyone's looking for the answer in Swift: 

let desiredPosition = textField.beginningOfDocument
textField.selectedTextRange = textField.textRangeFromPosition(desiredPosition, toPosition: desiredPosition)

But I believe this only works if the cursor is already in the text field. You can use this to do that:

textField.becomeFirstResponder()
let desiredPosition = textField.beginningOfDocument
textField.selectedTextRange = textField.textRangeFromPosition(desiredPosition, toPosition: desiredPosition)
Titouan de Bailleul
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  • when i use this code and select my cursor at first of text, cursor set at first but I don't want to that – Bita Oct 13 '20 at 07:30