Hide the cursor of an UITextField

Simply subclass UITextField and override caretRectForPosition

- (CGRect)caretRectForPosition:(UITextPosition *)position
{
    return CGRectZero;
}

As of iOS 7 you can now just set the tintColor = [UIColor clearColor] on the textField and the caret will disappear.

You can just clear the textfield's tintColor

self.textField.tintColor = [UIColor clearColor];

Swift 3.0

self.textField.tintColor = .clear

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