How to hide passwords in a UITextField

Written by Paul Hudson    @twostraws

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

Available from iOS 2.0

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