How to display stars instead of dots in textField with SecureTextEntry in Objective C?

Question

Objective-C

The standard display of secure text looks like bold dots.
By design, you need to display the stars.
Can this be done with 1 field without shamanism with an additional hidden field?

Answer 1

1) Override the delegate method
-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
, take the replacementString in it and combine it with what the user previously entered + backspace processing. At the same time, insert the required number of stars into the textField
2) use a custom font in which to re-render the symbol 'BULLET' (U+2022) (see the answer here
3) Break the hands of someone who requires any garbage, such as asterisks in the secure input field. What did not please them with the standard apple'ovsky