How to hide passwords in a UITextField
Swift version: 5.2
User text in a UITextField is visible by default, but you can enable the iOS text-hiding password functionality just by setting your text field's isSecureTextEntry property to be true, like this:
textField.isSecureTextEntry = true
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Available from iOS 2.0
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