iOS 14.3 UITextField leak?

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Created Dec ’20

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Why is the UIKeyboard implementation still holding a reference to this UITextField, thus keeping it from being deallocated?

The memory debugger shows:

UIKeyboardImpl -> UIKBAutofillController -> NSMutableDictionary -> NSMutable...(Storage) -> UITextField

Any idea what's going on there?

Answered by Ana0209 in 670571022

It seems to disappear if I set:

Code Block textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionType.no

I tried that because of the UIKBautofillController pointing to the field in the memory debugger.

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Ana0209 OP

Apr ’21

I cannot offer any help, but I have the same issue. I noticed that it appears when I switch the view while the cursor is still in the text field. I tried adding resignFirstResponder in different ways, it did not help.

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Ana0209 OP

Apr ’21

Accepted Answer

It seems to disappear if I set:

Code Block textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionType.no

I tried that because of the UIKBautofillController pointing to the field in the memory debugger.

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Answer 3

aepryus OP

Nov ’22

If anyone (else) is coming across this issue with their custom UITextInput control. The following work around will work (assuming you don't need autocorrect):

var autocorrectionType: UITextAutocorrectionType {
    get { .no }
    set { fatalError() }
}

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Answer 4

Zhouheng OP

May ’24

iOS 17.4.1 still have this issue

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