Hide cursor on UITextView - Swift

Question

I have an app that have user feedback feature. I have done the view as shown in the image. Feedback view that I made

Message area is using UITextView.

What I want to do now is when user finished editing the textView, then they click other places such as the star rating or any area besides textview, it will hide the cursor on the textview but it will keep the written text at the same time.

Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.

Using gesture you can do this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5306240/iphone-dismiss-keyboard-when-touching-outside-of-uitextfield — Pushpa Y, Dec 08 '15 at 08:55
Possible duplicate of [UITextview Hide cursor/Change color of cursor](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11525255/uitextview-hide-cursor-change-color-of-cursor) — Rashwan L, Dec 08 '15 at 20:42

Adam · Answer 1 · 2017-02-13T07:57:46.243

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You can make the tint color transparent to hide the cursor.

textView.tintColor = UIColor.clearColor()

In Swift 3:

textView.tintColor = UIColor.clear

edited Feb 13 '17 at 07:57

answered Dec 08 '15 at 08:53

Adam

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 02 '17 at 08:11

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Update for Swift 3.x:

textField.tintColor = .clear

edited Jan 02 '17 at 08:11

Rolf ツ

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answered Dec 22 '16 at 21:26

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '15 at 09:00

Try this:

1) Add a tap gesture recogniser to your view in an appropriate place (viewDidLoad for example)

  let tapRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "hideKeyboard")
  view.addGestureRecognizer(tapRecognizer)

2) Then you need to add hideKeyboard method. Example implementation

func hideKeyboard() {
  view.endEditing(true)
}

That should do it :)

Hide cursor on UITextView - Swift

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