How to make text field first responder and not delete text? iPhone

When I make a text field first responder it deletes my default text. I want this text to stay until the user enters something.

The end result that I am looking for is that I want the keyboard to appear on the screen and default instructions to still appear until user clicks a button on the keyboard... at which time it should clear de开发者_开发百科fault text.

I tried making the textfield first responder when the view loads... this allows me to show the keyboard... but it clears out my instructional text.

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In interface builder remove the checked for the "clear when editing begins" and in the textFieldDidBeginEditing method

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{

[textField1 clearsOnBeginEditing];//textField1 is the instance of your text field.

}

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