iOS 11 disable password autofill accessory view option?

Question

As of now I would like to opt out of the new option iOS 11 gives, that is to suggest passwords in the app. When I run the app on iOS 11 I get the autofill option on top of t

Answer 1

iOS 12 seems to recognise password textFields also by isSecureTextEntry property and not just by textContentType property, so making this accessory view disappear is not really possible unless you both set textContentType to nothing, and remove the secureEntry feature (and cause a security flaw in your app) which then prevents iOS 12 to recognise the textField as a password textField and show this annoying accessory view.

In my case the accessory caused a bug which made my app unresponsive when tapped (Which also got my app rejected in app review process). So I had to remove this feature. I didn't want to give on up this security feature so I had to solve things by my self.

The idea is to remove the secureEntry feature but add it by yourself manually. It did worked:

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It can be done like that:

Swift 4 way:

First, as answered here, set textContentType to nothing:

if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
    passwordText.textContentType = UITextContentType("")
    emailText.textContentType = UITextContentType("")
}

Than, declare a String variable which will later contain our textField real content:

var passwordValue = ""

Add a target to the passwordTextField, which will be called each time the textField content changes:

passwordText.addTarget(self, action: #selector(textFieldDidChange(_:)), for: .editingChanged)

Now That's what will do the magic, declare the function that will handle the text replacements:

@objc func textFieldDidChange(_ textField: UITextField) {
    if textField.text!.count > 1 {
        // User did copy & paste
        if passwordValue.count == 0 { // Pasted into an empty textField
            passwordValue = String(textField.text!)
        } else { // Pasted to a non empty textField
            passwordValue += textField.text!.substring(from: passwordValue.count)
        }
    } else {
        // User did input by keypad
        if textField.text!.count > passwordValue.count { // Added chars
            passwordValue += String(textField.text!.last!)
        } else if textField.text!.count < passwordValue.count { // Removed chars
            passwordValue = String(passwordValue.dropLast())
        }
    }
    self.passwordText.text = String(repeating: "•", count: self.passwordText.text!.count)
}

Finally, Set textField's autocorrectionType to .no to remove predictive text:

passwordText.autocorrectionType = .no

That's it, use passwordValue to perform your login.

Hope it'll help someone.

UPDATE

It catches pasted values also, forgot to add it before.

Answer 2

This worked for me:

NOTE: try putting this code on the password, password confirm (if applicable), AND email textfields. I was not putting it on the email textfield and it was still popping up for the two password fields.

if #available(iOS 12, *) {
     // iOS 12: Not the best solution, but it works.
     cell.textField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode
} else {
     // iOS 11: Disables the autofill accessory view.
     cell.textField.textContentType = .init(rawValue: "")
}

Answer 3

Objective-C

if (@available(iOS 10, *)){
    self.tfEmail.textContentType = @"";
    self.tfPassword.textContentType = @"";
}

This worked for me.

Answer 4

Thanks to Apple, I couldn't find any way with native methods when isSecureTextEntry setted to YES. Gal Shahar's way is the only solution for disabling password autofill accessory view option. But It's more easy to do with

objective c

-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string

swift

textField(_:shouldChangeCharactersIn:replacementString:)

delegate. And use simple code like this. Declare a String variable which will later contain our textField real content, mine is pswd.

-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
    {
        //Thanks iOS13!!!
        if(!_pswd)
        {
            _pswd = @"";
        }
        _pswd = [_pswd stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:string];

        if (!buttonShowPassword.selected)
        {
            textField.text = [@"" stringByPaddingToLength:_pswd.length withString: @"•" startingAtIndex:0];
        }
        else
        {
            textField.text = _pswd;
        }
        return NO;
    }

Answer 5

Objective C version:

if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(@"10.0")) {
    self.passwordTextField.textContentType = @"";
    self.confirmPasswordTextField.textContentType = @"";
}

where

#define SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(v)                  ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedSame)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(v)              ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedDescending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v)  ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(v)                 ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedAscending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v)     ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedDescending)

Answer 6

self.passwordTextField.autocorrectionType = NO;

It does not seem to work, the keychain sign still there,

self.passwordTextField.textContentType = UITextContentTypeName;

The code above does work, but if the users set up their Apple ID account, Then, the name of the apple id will be display on the keyboard you cannot disable it by set autocorrectionType to No, not sure if Apple still refines this autofill feature, it's quite buggy right now.