UITextField secureEntry misplaces cursor

Question

I'm having issues with toggling the secureEntry property on UITextField. When the property is toggled, the characters are resized, but the cursor stays in the wrong place:

insecure entry

possible duplicate of [UITextField secureTextEntry - works going from YES to NO, but changing back to YES has no effect](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6710019/uitextfield-securetextentry-works-going-from-yes-to-no-but-changing-back-to-y) — Andrei, Mar 25 '14 at 16:07

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '15 at 07:34

Here is my workaround:

textField.secureTextEntry = YES;

UITextRange *textRange = textField.selectedTextRange;
textField.selectedTextRange = nil;
textField.selectedTextRange = textRange;

Disable and then Enable the UITextField also help, but it will suddenly change my soft keyboard from one to another

keshav vishwkarma · Answer 2 · 2015-09-03T05:50:57.347

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After setting textField secureEntry property NO, you need to call becomeFirstResponder method its works for me...

Try this

 textField.secureTextEntry = NO;
 if (textField.isFirstResponder){
    [textField becomeFirstResponder];
 }

edited Sep 03 '15 at 05:50

answered Sep 02 '15 at 14:45

keshav vishwkarma

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '18 at 14:03

Both are working for Swift 4

self.isSecureTextEntry = false

if textField.isFirstResponder {
    textField.becomeFirstResponder()
    textField.layoutIfNeeded() 
}

I had to add textField.layoutIfNeeded() that it's working for Swift or use

    let textRange = self.selectedTextRange
    self.selectedTextRange = nil;
    self.selectedTextRange = textRange

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 29 '18 at 14:53

For Swift 4

@objc func tapOnLeftIcon(gesture: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
        let textRange = textField.selectedTextRange

        textField.isSecureTextEntry = !textField.isSecureTextEntry
        textField.selectedTextRange = nil
        textField.selectedTextRange = textRange
    }

UITextField secureEntry misplaces cursor

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