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

I had the same issue in React Native when I set the keyboardType to "numeric-pad". It's a native IOS issue due to default language set in info.plist file.

I found the solution here : https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/27972

Delete these 2 lines to unset the default language :

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>en</string>

You could also just modify <string>en</string> to <string>fr</string> but then you will have the same issue with english users who will have a switch to azerty keyboard :/

Answer 2

Same solution in Swiftui now :

TextField("placeholder",text: $YourTextBinding)
                        .textContentType(.oneTimeCode)
                        .keyboardType(.default)

just need to add :

                        .textContentType(.oneTimeCode)
                        .keyboardType(.default)

to a TextField or a SecureField.

hope it helps !

Answer 3

This was truly an iOS bug => corrected in iOS 12.1

Answer 4

The lamer a bug is, the lamer the solution should be, i mean what a lame work by Apple.

My solution was to force a focus on the password field and then focus on the first field, in my case it was the usernameField.

- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    [self.passwordTextField becomeFirstResponder];
    [self.usernameTextField becomeFirstResponder];
}

Answer 5

Just in case, I corrected this by simply adding this to my main viewController :

func passwordSignUpViewController(forAuthUI authUI: FUIAuth, email: String, requireDisplayName: Bool) -> FUIPasswordSignUpViewController {
    return CustomPasswordSignUpViewController(authUI: authUI, email: email, requireDisplayName: true)
}

And I created the subclass of FUIPasswordSignUpViewController

import Foundation
import FirebaseUI

class CustomPasswordSignUpViewController : FUIPasswordSignUpViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {

 override init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: Bundle?, authUI: FUIAuth, email: String?, requireDisplayName: Bool) {
    super.init(nibName: "FUIPasswordSignUpViewController", bundle: nibBundleOrNil, authUI: authUI, email: email, requireDisplayName: requireDisplayName)        
 }

 required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)
 }

 override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
 }

 func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
    if #available(iOS 12.0, *) {
        textField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode
    }
 }
}

Answer 6

iOS 12.1 fixed the problem for me.

You also have to set the parameter textContentType of the password textfield to .oneTimeCode