custom UITextField with image as a background blinking cursor issue

Question

I have a custom UITextField with a UIImage as a background. Now when I type in a text into this UITextField and the cursor is blinking I get this:

Answer 1

What about creating a UIImageView with your image in it, and then embedding a borderless UITextField inside your image view? The text field will still be editable, but shouldn't interfere with the imageview behind it.