Advanced Custom Fields ACF dynamically set default value #wordpress

functions.php

<?php
add_filter('acf/load_field/name=field_name', function($field) {
    global $post;
    
    // variant 1 (use get_post_meta instead of get_field to avoid conflicts)
    if( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'field_name', true) == '' ) {
        $field['value'] = 'FOO';
    }
    
    // variant 2
    $field['default_value'] = 'FOO';
    
    return $field;          
});

Thanks for this. I might be wrong but variant 1 works and variant 2 doesn't.

Hello Brad, thanks for your feedback.
I just tried both versions successfully with WP 5.2.1 and ACF 5.8.1.

Hi thanks for the snippet. Got a question - I've created sth like that but seems not to work:

function my_acf_load_field( $field ) {
    global $post;
    if( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'month_year', true) == '' ) {
        $current_date = get_sub_field('data');
        $trimmed = substr($current_date, -7);
        $field['value'] = $trimmed;
    }
    $field['disabled'] = 1;
    return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field/name=month_year', 'my_acf_load_field');