Set password protection in UITextView

Question

Can i hide password in UITextView by * or any other symbol? I need to use UITextView instead of UITextField. I want to hide all characters of textView.

Answer 1

Create a global variable for password string.

var passwordString = ""

Then set delegates of UITextView like:

func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool {
    passwordString = ((passwordString ?? "") as NSString).replacingCharacters(in: range, with: text)
    return true
}

func textViewDidChange(_ textView: UITextView) {
//replace character with * or anyother character
    yourtextView.text = String(repeating: "*", count: (textView.text ?? "").count)
}

and dont forget to do this:

yourTextview.delegate = self