UITextField has trailing whitespace after secureTextEntry toggle

Question

I have a button that toggles between Show/Hide mode (i.e. toggles a UITextField between secureTextEntry NO and YES). The purpose of which is to allow the user to see the pa

Answer 1

I'm using this, Works fine.

[self.yourTextField becomeFirstResponder];

Answer 2

To get the cursor to reposition correctly, setting the font attributes seemed to do the trick for me.

// Hack to update cursor position
self.passwordTf.defaultTextAttributes = @{NSFontAttributeName: textFieldFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: textFieldColor};

// Change secure entry
self.passwordTf.secureTextEntry = !self.passwordTf.secureTextEntry;

Tested on iOS8, iOS9. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

Swift 4

Bug is on radar, there is explanation of workaround also: http://www.openradar.me/38465011

Here is cut of temporary workaround how to natively update caret (cursor) position.

// update caret position
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.01) {
    let (beginning, end) = (self.beginningOfDocument, self.endOfDocument)

    self.selectedTextRange = self.textRange(from: beginning, to: end)
    self.selectedTextRange = self.textRange(from: end, to: end)
}

Answer 4

This is another possibility to solve this issue, where self.passwordText is the UITextField:

if (self.passwordText.isFirstResponder) {
    [self.passwordText resignFirstResponder];
    [self.passwordText becomeFirstResponder];
}

Answer 5

You can fix it like this:

NSString *currentText = self.textfield.text;
self.textfield.text = @"";
self.textfield.text = currentText;

Answer 6

UITextPosition *beginning = [self.passwordField beginningOfDocument];
[self.passwordField setSelectedTextRange:[self.passwordField textRangeFromPosition:beginning
                                                                        toPosition:beginning]];

UITextPosition *end = [self.passwordField endOfDocument];
[self.passwordField setSelectedTextRange:[self.passwordField textRangeFromPosition:end
                                                                        toPosition:end]];

This is what I used for iOS 8