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

When we change a textfield.secureTextEntry property, the caret position is not updated. To fix this, the code below used to work before IOS 8:

pwdTextField.text  = pwdTextField.text

Now it doesn't. It seems IOS 8 detects the new value equals old value and does nothing. So to make it work again we have to actually change the value. Here is the swift version that works for me.

let str = pwdTextField.text
pwdTextField.text = str + " "
pwdTextField.text = str