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 textfield, which is secured, the keyboard switches to English (qwerty), even if they do not have this keyboard installed on their devices. Moreover, if they do not have this keyboard installed, they can't switch back to their keyboard.

I found out that if I deactivate Secure Text Entry, the problem does not show up.

I also tried to set isSecureTextEntry programmatically, and the bug shows up.

I am adding two screenshots, one for each text field.

Thank you a lot for your time & help.

I have this problem too. It"s definitely an iOS 12 bug. Hopefully they fix it soon. — ian, Oct 08 '18 at 11:28
Thank you. I absolutely agree, but I can't find any other traces of this problem anywhere else, can you ? — Thib L, Oct 08 '18 at 11:43
Have you added the French keyboard from your device settings ? — vivekDas, Oct 08 '18 at 11:43
French keyboard is my default keyboard as my iPhone is french and was initialized this way, so yes, it is installed :) — Thib L, Oct 08 '18 at 11:46
Hello! I have the same issue, but with a weird behavior. I have a secure text field in the login view controller which is in AZERTY for french users and a secure text field in the signup view controller which is in QWERTY also for french users. It is kind of strange. — IMACODE, Nov 19 '18 at 14:10
@imacode yes ! that's exactly my problem too. I have filled a bug report to Apple 45 days ago through Bug Reporter, no news at this point. — Thib L, Nov 20 '18 at 15:03
Solution here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53004048/password-fields-keyboard-switches-from-azerty-to-qwerty-sometimes-only-on-ios/54749897#54749897 — Quentin Rth, Feb 21 '19 at 12:54

Nico · Answer 1 · 2018-12-08T20:12:22.243

I have the same issue, in my case this bug appears only with a register screen.

The reason is that Apple checks the name of the class/func/parameter to determine (with heuristics) if it is a login/register screen and activate automatically autofill password. By replacing "register" with "Patate" in my code, the problem is solved.

I reproduce this issue with a sample app with 2 textfields (with a security text entry) and a view controller named "RegisterViewController". With a "PatateViewController", I have not the issue.

Moreover, I have this error in console : [AutoFill] Cannot show Automatic Strong Passwords for app bundleID: *** due to error: iCloud Keychain is disabled

Source : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_autofill

Hope you will find a better way than renaming your code.

I'm upvoting it, "PatateViewController" is clearly the better name you can give to a ViewController — RxVincent, Feb 28 '19 at 09:46

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '18 at 11:10

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I had the same problem appear recently on our application. The problem is linked to the new feature of the PasswordAutofill from Apple.

To bypass this problem you can apply this little piece of code on your secure textfield

    if #available(iOS 12.0, *) {
        tfPassword.textContentType = .oneTimeCode
    }

This should resolve this bug. This should also fix this error:

[AutoFill] Cannot show Automatic Strong Passwords for app bundleID: *** due to error: iCloud Keychain is disabled

Ps: You could also add this new feature to your app. This is a link to an article explaining the process on how to implement this new feature Explanation on how to implement password autofill

Hope it helps.

answered Dec 13 '18 at 11:10

Martin

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This was the solution for me – TheFuquan Apr 07 '19 at 13:17
When the user has its keychain disabled the bug still appears – Jonas Apr 12 '19 at 09:04
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Same in swiftUI, just add .textContentType(.oneTimeCode).keyboardType(.default) to a SecureField – theMouk Nov 15 '19 at 09:10

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 24 '20 at 10:10

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 !

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 04 '20 at 09:28

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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 :/

answered May 04 '20 at 09:28

maximegenestier

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This is perfect solution. – Rajesh Maurya Jun 06 '20 at 16:14
Same problem on React Native but this doesn't fix it for me – R1' Nov 23 '20 at 11:36

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 05 '19 at 15:50

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Had the same problem and solved it by setting all my textFields textContentType property to UITextContentType.oneTimeCode.

Of course, oneTimeCode is now useless since it's everywhere...

answered Feb 05 '19 at 15:50

Guillaume Berthier

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I am facing this issue...https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61495065/how-to-enable-disable-onetimecode-feature-for-specific-text-field – Gaurav Borole Jul 07 '20 at 09:21

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 08 '18 at 11:50

Swift 3:

Create base class for UITextField with languageCode and textInputMode.

class BaseTextField: UITextField {

// ru, en, ....
var languageCode: String? {

    didSet{

        if self.isFirstResponder{

            self.resignFirstResponder();
            self.becomeFirstResponder();
        }
    }
}

override var textInputMode: UITextInputMode? {

    if let language_code = self.languageCode {

        for keyboard in UITextInputMode.activeInputModes {

            if let language = keyboard.primaryLanguage {

                let locale = Locale.init(identifier: language);
                if locale.languageCode == language_code {

                    return keyboard;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return super.textInputMode;
}}

Usage:

Set your value (ru, en, ...) to languageCode. It will force change the locale in the keyboard.

private func textConfigure(textField: UITextField) {

    textField.keyboardType = .default
    textField.autocapitalizationType = .words
    textField.languageCode = "ru"
}

Hope help you.

it doesn't work for keyboardType = .decimalPad, to display a dot or a comma — JERC, Jan 23 '19 at 18:34

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 08 '19 at 13:33

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iOS 12.1 fixed the problem for me.

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

answered Jan 08 '19 at 13:33

ndelanou

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This does not fix the problem for my application. Running on iOS 12.1.2 – cb89 Jan 21 '19 at 10:59

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 23 '19 at 14:10

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];
}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '18 at 09:10

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

answered Nov 26 '18 at 09:10

Thib L

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we still have the problem on iOS 12.1 – floydaddict Dec 05 '18 at 10:58
That's strange, we can't reproduce it anymore here – Thib L Dec 06 '18 at 13:02
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We also still have the problem on iOS 12.1.1 – Martin Dec 13 '18 at 10:28
Still have the problem on iOS 12.1.2 – cb89 Jan 21 '19 at 10:58
Still have the problem on iOS 12.1.4 – hstdt Mar 04 '19 at 08:32
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still there, iOS 12.2 – e.dimitrow Mar 26 '19 at 13:22
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still there in iOS 13+ – alexsouye Jul 16 '20 at 08:01
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still threre in iOS 14+ – Chris Ho Nov 24 '20 at 02:56

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Feb 20 '20 at 08:45

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
    }
 }
}

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered May 19 '21 at 10:32

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In my case, following line solve my problem.

textField.textContentType = .newPassword

answered May 19 '21 at 10:32

Jerome

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