Hide password with "•••••••" in a textField
In my app there is a textField where the user have to put is password in and i want that when he enter a character it change it to '•' how can i do this?
Solution 1:
You can achieve this directly in Xcode:
The very last checkbox, make sure secure
is checked .
Or you can do it using code:
Identifies whether the text object should hide the text being entered.
Declaration
optional var secureTextEntry: Bool { get set }
Discussion
This property is set to false
by default. Setting this property to true
creates a password-style text object, which hides the text being entered.
example:
texfield.secureTextEntry = true
Solution 2:
in Swift 3.0 or Later
passwordTextField.isSecureTextEntry = true
Solution 3:
Swift 4 and Xcode Version 9+
Can be set via "Secure Text Entry" via Interface Builder
Solution 4:
In XCode 6.3.1, if you use a NSTextField
you will not see the checkbox for secure
.
Instead of using NSTextField
use NSSecureTextField
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSSecureTextField_Class/index.html
I'm guessing this is a Swift/Objective-C change since there is now a class for secure text fields. In the above link it says Available in OS X v10.0 and later.
If you know more about when/why/what versions of Swift/Objective-C, XCode, or OS X this
Solution 5:
For SwiftUI, try
TextField ("Email", text: $email)
.textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()).padding()
SecureField ("Password", text: $password)
.textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()).padding()