UITextField with secure entry, always getting cleared before editing

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Nithin picture Nithin · Sep 5, 2011 · Viewed 41.9k times · Source

I am having a weird issue in which my UITextField which holds a secure entry is always getting cleared when I try to edit it. I added 3 characters to the field, goes to another field and comes back, the cursor is in 4th character position, but when I try to add another character, the whole text in the field gets cleared by the new character. I have 'Clears when editing begins' unchecked in the nib. So what would be the issue? If I remove the secure entry property, everything is working fine, so, is this the property of Secure entry textfields? Is there any way to prevent this behaviour?

Answer

EmptyStack picture EmptyStack · Sep 5, 2011

Set, 

textField.clearsOnBeginEditing = NO;

Note: This won't work if secureTextEntry = YES. It seems, by default, iOS clears the text of secure entry text fields before editing, no matter clearsOnBeginEditing is YES or NO.

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