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

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!