Native UITextField Secure Text Entry forces English (US) keyboard

Question

I have a very simple login page (login + password).

My users are french, so their keyboard are French (azerty).

Since iOS 12, when they click on the password

Answer 1

Swift 3:

Create base class for UITextField with languageCode and textInputMode.

class BaseTextField: UITextField {

// ru, en, ....
var languageCode: String? {

    didSet{

        if self.isFirstResponder{

            self.resignFirstResponder();
            self.becomeFirstResponder();
        }
    }
}

override var textInputMode: UITextInputMode? {

    if let language_code = self.languageCode {

        for keyboard in UITextInputMode.activeInputModes {

            if let language = keyboard.primaryLanguage {

                let locale = Locale.init(identifier: language);
                if locale.languageCode == language_code {

                    return keyboard;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return super.textInputMode;
}}

Usage:

Set your value (ru, en, ...) to languageCode. It will force change the locale in the keyboard.

private func textConfigure(textField: UITextField) {

    textField.keyboardType = .default
    textField.autocapitalizationType = .words
    textField.languageCode = "ru"
}

Hope help you.