Node Bindings sendKeys() Alternative for iOS?

I’ve been looking to try and find an alternative to sendKeys() that would theoretically set the value for a text field without seeing the key board type individual character values.

I’ve been researching and there doesn’t appear to be a workable “setValue()” alternative for the node bindings.

Am I stuck having to use the sendKeys()?

I’m looking for something that looks like:

driver.elementByClassName(“UIATextField”).setValue(“testText”)

Python:
element = self.driver.find_element(*CreateanAccountLocators._FIRST_NAME_ID)
element.set_value(‘abc’)