Hide keyboard when user touches uiview

Question

I have a UIView with multiple text boxes. Now i have used delegates to change the responder from from text field to another. In this case my key board goes away when the user comes to last text field.

but now i want to hide my key board when the user touches UIView(touches any where on screen apart from text boxes). Can some one help me with this.

Thanks

PCheese · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-08T06:36:04.720

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Use resignFirstResponder in touchesBegan, like so:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
    if(touch.phase == UITouchPhaseBegan) {
        [self.myTextField resignFirstResponder];
    }
}

You may need to call this on multiple text fields if you're not sure where the focus is currently located; I haven't tested that case.

Additionally, in Interface Builder, you'll need to enable the "User Interaction Enabled" checkbox for the view, or programatically use:

myView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;

edited Jun 08 '09 at 06:36

answered Jun 08 '09 at 06:05

PCheese

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But where to call this resignFirstResponder. How to know the user touched the UIView??? – nbojja Jun 08 '09 at 06:09
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I've edited the post to include an example within touchesBegan. – PCheese Jun 08 '09 at 06:37
Hey..Thanks for your help..it worked well with UIView. But i have another scenario where i have text boxes in UITableView. in this case your code is not working. I am very new to iPhone development, so please...... – nbojja Jun 08 '09 at 07:13
If you want to find out which control to call resignFirstResponder on, you can use isFirstResponder. So in my code i call "if ([myTextField isFirstResponder]) [myTextField resignFirstResponder]; else if...". One could probably be more systematic and iterate through the subviews, look for views/controls that are UIResponder and do the same check as above. – pschang Oct 16 '10 at 16:58
thaaaaaaannnnnnk you :) comment: it doesn't work with UIScrollViews – cV2 Jan 10 '12 at 14:42
Or you can call [UIApplication.sharedApplication sendAction:@selector(resignFirstResponder) to:nil from:nil forEvent:nil]; if you don't know which textField is first responder – Bejil Apr 01 '19 at 15:56

score 26 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 22:04

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Just call this in your view controller when you want to hide the keyboard.

[self.view endEditing:NO];

answered Jul 10 '12 at 22:04

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score 14 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 20 '11 at 19:43

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I use

-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
     UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
     if(touch.phase==UITouchPhaseBegan){
         //find first response view
         for (UIView *view in [self.view subviews]) {
             if ([view isFirstResponder]) {
                 [view resignFirstResponder];
                 break;
             }
         }
     }
}

edited Mar 20 '11 at 19:43

Robert Harvey

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answered Mar 18 '11 at 00:03

Chalermchon Sommana

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Simple, concise, and totally generic. Very nice! – ryan0 Oct 08 '12 at 23:20

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 20 '13 at 14:49

A super easy way to do this is working on what PCheese said.

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UITouch * touch = [touches anyObject];
if(touch.phase == UITouchPhaseBegan) {
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
}

}

I previously used [self.view endEditing:YES]; for a button event, but when combined with the previous answer it works a treat. Much easier, and you don't have to do anything else - just put it in your .m file. Also, this works with all (at least, as far as I have seen) text fields (works for UITextField and UITextView).

I know OP probably won't still need this but I just want to share it for others with the same problem.

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 08 '09 at 06:58

According to Beginning iPhone Development, you draw a round rect button so that it covers your entire UI; the complete screen. Then go to the Layout menu and click Send to Back. Then in the inspector, change the button's type from round rect to Custom. Now add a touch up inside event to this button and attach it to a method which handles it. Within the body of this method, make sure you have the statements:

[myTextFieldOne resignFirstResponder];
[myTextFieldTwo resignFirstResponder];

Basically send the resignFirstResponder message to each of your text fields, or any field that can produce a keyboard.

I'm actually really new to the iPhone SDK. I don't know if this is the best method, but it works and it's what I learned from the aforementioned book. Hope it helps.

Are you sure your suggestion does conform with MVC pattern? – Malloc Sep 10 '12 at 17:24 — Malloc, Sep 10 '12 at 17:24

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 15 '09 at 20:46

Thanks Blaenk, I was trying to work out how to do this and didn't realise I could put a button in the background, nice trick! Here's my contribution (new to this site and to Cocoa Touch so it may not be the most robust code ever, but it's working so far...):

I call this method from the touchUpInside event on my UIButton:

-(void)closeKeyboard:(id)sender {
    UIView *theFirstResponder = [self findFirstResponder];
    if (theFirstResponder) {
        [theFirstResponder resignFirstResponder];
    }
}

Where this loop finds the firstResponder:

- (UIView *)findFirstResponder {  
    UIView *firstResponderView = nil;
    for (UIView *view in [self entryFields]) {  
        if ([view isFirstResponder]) {  
            firstResponderView = view;
            break;
        }
    }   
    return firstResponderView;  
}

It is dependent on each of the UITextField controls in the view having a tag assigned to them (again, can do that in Interface Builder).

My two cents anyway, though i'd better give something back!

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 06 '15 at 21:23

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it work for me

-(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self.view endEditing:NO];
}

only need into self.view have an UItextField

http://objdev.com/2013/11/Dismissing-iOS-Keyboard-Self-View-EndEditing

answered Feb 06 '15 at 21:23

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 12 '11 at 10:11

SO I agonized over this and I figured it out..

you don't need the other button or anything.

All you need to do is select "Files owner", in the inspector drag from its textField outlet (or whatever you named it) to your actual textfield (via whatever you named it) This will be in addition to whatever inputs you already had wired up.

and ofcourse in addition to the Control outlet (UIview changed to UIControl via inspector) to files owner via backgroundtouched...the first thing we all tried

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 20:31

The most appropriate way of solving this problem is using the following method:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];
    if(![touch.view isMemberOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
        [touch.view endEditing:YES];
    }
}

Note: This does not work on UIScrollView instances.

score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Oct 26 '15 at 17:58

Change the class UIView to class UIControl from the identify tab of inspector. Add this:

- (IBAction)tabBackground:(id) sender;

to your .h file.

Add this to your .m file:

- (IBAction)tabBackgroup:(id) sender {
    [nameField resignFirstRespnder];
    [numberField resignFirstResponder];
}

Connect your tabBackground from the inspector, action received section to the UIView (which is an an UIControl) and you're good to go.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jan 12 '18 at 08:43

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For swift 4.0

    override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    let touch = touches.first
    if touch?.phase == UITouchPhase.began {
        touch?.view?.endEditing(true)
    }
}

answered Jan 12 '18 at 08:43

Tanvir Singh

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