TextInput with secureTextEntry loses value

[rob-johansen]

I'm developing an app with React Native 0.29.1 and React 15.2.1 in Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. I've noticed that a TextInput with secureTextEntry set to true will lose its value if you:

1. Type some characters into the input.
2. Blur the input (give focus to something else).
3. Focus the input.
4. Type another character.

I've reproduced the issue here:

https://rnplay.org/apps/Xpn4uw

[vonovak]

what you probably want to do is store the values in your state object, i.e. call setState on changing input text and set the TextInput's value prop.

[rob-johansen]

I actually tried that, but it doesn't fix the problem (should have mentioned it in my original post).

[vonovak]

hmm, quite interesting indeed. Looking at it closer, I found out that is actually the intended behavior on ios. Try launching the RN play demo, and go to settings -> icloud and try your procedure

[alexHlebnikov]

I've got the same problem after updating from 0.27.0 to 0.29.0 or 0.30.0.
Saving query in state doesn't helps. Feels like a TextInput component bug.

[RD1991]

This is default behaviour. This works same in iOS native development.

[gabriel]

It would be nice to support not clearing the password on iOS. There are some workarounds (for UITextField) here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7305538/uitextfield-with-secure-entry-always-getting-cleared-before-editing
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28441300/uitextfield-secureentry-doesnt-respect-clearsonbeginediting-property

[lacker]

I'm going to close this issue as "works as intended". In general if something works a particular way in iOS native development it seems reasonable to consider it out of scope for RN to fix it.