Swift 3 In Swift 3 there is addingPercentEncoding let originalString = "test/test" let escapedString = originalString.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlHostAllowed) print(escapedString!) Output: test%2Ftest Swift 1 In iOS 7 and above there is stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters var originalString = "test/test" var escapedString = originalString.stringByAddingPercentEn