Question

I have recently observed that you create 1 UITextField and set its UIKeyboardType to Email and set the property setsecuretextentry to TRUE.

Now note this behavior in iOS 5 and iOS 6 Device or Simulator…

Note that in iOS 5 Normal(Alphabet without @ sign) keyboard will open. And in iOS 6 Email type keyboard will open.

Has anyone else observed this behavior earlier?? Is there any bug already reported to Apple?? Can anyone explain how to tackle this issue??

Answer 1

I managed to get the iOS 6 behavior in iOS 5 too by doing setting the properties in code. Must be a bug in the way/order the properties are picked from the nib file:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.textField.secureTextEntry = YES;
    self.textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress;
}