I believe it's because of the virtual on-screen keyboard - this way you can verify whether the character you typed has uppercase or not, since the virtual keyboard has no "Caps Lock" LED on it, or just because the iPhone screen keyboard keys are so small, it's easy to make a typo when entering your password. I do wish they (Apple) would make it so that if you're using a wireless (bluetooth) keyboard, that it would - in fact - hide the on-screen character(s) in a secure TextField. But this behavior has been around since at least when they called it iPhone OS, I believe... I could be wrong. HTH!
On Mar 5, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm generally a big fan of Cocoa Touch - but why does the "secure" option > on a UITextField still display the character you are typing? > > And, is there any way I can turn this off? > > Its generally hard to get non-employee AD credentials created or to stand > up DEV Active Directory services ... so everywhere I've ever worked, folks > like me are always entering their real AD creds in the app during > development. This is embarrassing when you are pairing and even worse, was > in a demo today and the leader is asking everyone "not to look" while they > entered their AD credentials in front of a whole host of people. > > I guess one could write something to work around this ... but does anyone > know if that is really necessary - and what would have motivated Apple to > implement textField.secureTextEntry this way ... or not provide a textField. > *really*SecureTextEntry option which would mask ALL the characters. Maybe > an option that doesn't even show how many # the user is actually typing. > I'm surely not counting 14+ characters anymore. > > -Luther > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/wsquires%40satx.rr.com > > This email sent to wsqui...@satx.rr.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
