How to dismiss keyboard iOS programmatically when pressing return

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I created a UITextField programmatically making the UITextField a property of the viewController  I need to dismiss the keyboard with the return and the touch on the screen  I was able to get the screen touch to dismiss  but pressing return is not working  I ve seen how to do it with storyboards and by allocating and initializing the UITextField object directly without creating it as a property  Possible to do   h  import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt    interface ViewController   UIViewController  lt UITextFieldDelegate gt    property  strong  atomic  UITextField  username    end   m  import  quot ViewController h quot    interface ViewController      end   implementation ViewController  -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad               Do any additional setup after loading the view  typically from a nib           self view backgroundColor    UIColor blueColor       self username     UITextField alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 100  25  80  20        self username placeholder     quot Enter your username quot       self username backgroundColor    UIColor whiteColor       self username borderStyle   UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect      if  self username placeholder    nil            self username clearsOnBeginEditing   NO             username delegate   self             self view addSubview self username         username resignFirstResponder           -  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event      NSLog   quot touchesBegan withEvent  quot         self view endEditing YES        super touchesBegan touches withEvent event       end

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To dismiss a keyboard after the keyboard has popped up, there are 2 cases,

when the UITextField is inside a UIScrollView
when the UITextField is outside a UIScrollView

2.when the UITextField is outside a UIScrollView override the method in your UIViewController subclass

you must also add delegate for all UITextView

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
}

In a scroll view, Tapping outside will not fire any event, so in that case use a Tap Gesture Recognizer, Drag and drop a UITapGesture for the scroll view and create an IBAction for it.

to create a IBAction, press ctrl+ click the UITapGesture and drag it to the .h file of viewcontroller.

Here I have named tappedEvent as my action name

- (IBAction)tappedEvent:(id)sender {
      [self.view endEditing:YES];  }

the abouve given Information was derived from the following link, please refer for more information or contact me if you dont understand the abouve data.

http://samwize.com/2014/03/27/dismiss-keyboard-when-tap-outside-a-uitextfield-slash-uitextview/

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Here s what I use in my code  It works like a charm   In yourviewcontroller h add    property  nonatomic  UITapGestureRecognizer  tapRecognizer   Now in the  m file  add this to your ViewDidLoad function   -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad          Keyboard stuff     tapRecognizer     UITapGestureRecognizer alloc  initWithTarget self action  selector handleSingleTap         tapRecognizer cancelsTouchesInView   NO       self view addGestureRecognizer tapRecognizer       Also  add this function in the  m file   -  void handleSingleTap  UITapGestureRecognizer    sender        self view endEditing YES

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So here s what I did to make it dismiss after touching the background or return  I had to add the delegate   self in viewDidLoad and then also the delegate methods later in the  m files     h  import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt    interface ViewController   UIViewController  lt UITextFieldDelegate gt     property  strong  atomic  UITextField  username    end   m -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad           Do any additional setup after loading the view  typically from a nib       self view backgroundColor    UIColor blueColor       self username     UITextField alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 100  25  80  20        self username placeholder     Enter your username       self username backgroundColor    UIColor whiteColor       self username borderStyle   UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect      if  self username placeholder    nil            self username clearsOnBeginEditing   NO            self username delegate   self       self username resignFirstResponder        self view addSubview self username        -  void didReceiveMemoryWarning        super didReceiveMemoryWarning          Dispose of any resources that can be recreated      -  BOOL textFieldShouldBeginEditing  UITextField   textField       return YES       -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return YES      end

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Simply use this in Objective-C to dismiss keyboard     UIApplication sharedApplication  keyWindow endEditing YES

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Add a delegate method of UITextField like this    interface MyController   UIViewController  lt UITextFieldDelegate gt    And set your textField delegate   self  then also add two delegate methods of UITextField   -  BOOL textFieldShouldBeginEditing  UITextField   textField          return YES        It is important for you to hide the keyboard -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return YES

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Hide keyBoard by touching background in view  -  void  touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event         self view  endEditing YES

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In the App Delegate  you can write  -  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event        self window endEditing YES       use this way  you can don t write too much code

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Since the tags only say iOS i will post the answer for Swift 1 2 and iOs 8 4  add these in your view controller swift class      MARK  - Close keyboard when touching somewhere else override func touchesBegan touches  Set lt NSObject gt   withEvent event  UIEvent         self view endEditing true         MARK  - Close keyboard when return pressed func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField   - gt  Bool        textField resignFirstResponder        return true      MARK  -   Also do not forget to add UITextFieldDelegate in the class declaration and set your text fields delegate to self  the view

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SWIFT 4   self view endEditing true    or  Set text field s delegate to current viewcontroller and then   func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool        textField resignFirstResponder        return true      Objective-C    self view endEditing YES     or  Set text field s delegate to current viewcontroller and then   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder        return YES

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Try to get an idea about what a first responder is in iOS view hierarchy  When your textfield becomes active or first responder  when you touch inside it  or pass it the messasge becomeFirstResponder programmatically   it presents the keyboard  So to remove your textfield from being the first responder  you should pass the message resignFirstResponder to it there    textField resignFirstResponder     And to hide the keyboard on its return button  you should implement its delegate method textFieldShouldReturn  and pass the resignFirstResponder message   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       textField resignFirstResponder       return YES

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For a group of UITextViews inside a ViewController   Swift 3 0  for view in view subviews       if view is UITextField           view resignFirstResponder             Objective-C     hide keyboard before dismiss for  UIView  view in  self view subviews         if   view isKindOfClass  UITextField class                 no need to cast          view resignFirstResponder

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The simple way is to connect the delegate of UITextField to self  self mytestField delegate   self  and dismiss the keyboard in the method textFieldShouldReturn using  textField resignFirstResponder   Another way to dismiss the keyboard is the following  Objective-C  self view endEditing YES    Swift  self view endEditing true   Put  self view endEditing YES   where you would like to dismiss the keyboard  Button event  Touch event  etc

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First you need to add textfield delegete in  h file  if not declare   BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField this method not called so first add delegate and write keyboard hide code into that method   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return YES      try this one

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-  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event    self view subviews enumerateObjectsUsingBlock   UIView  obj  NSUInteger idx  BOOL  stop        if   obj isKindOfClass  UITextField class               obj resignFirstResponder                 when you using more then one textfield in screen  With this method you doesn t need to mention textfield every time like    textField1 resignFirstResponder    textField2 resignFirstResponder

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If you don t know current view controller or textview you can use the Responder Chain      UIApplication shared sendAction  selector UIView endEditing       to nil  from nil  for nil

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I know this have been answered by others  but i found the another article that covered also for no background event - tableview or scrollview   http   samwize com 2014 03 27 dismiss-keyboard-when-tap-outside-a-uitextfield-slash-uitextview

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Swift 2    this is what is did to do every thing    close keyboard with Done button or Touch outSide  Next for go to next input   First Change TextFiled Return Key To Next in StoryBoard   override func viewDidLoad       txtBillIdentifier delegate   self   txtBillIdentifier tag   1   txtPayIdentifier delegate    self   txtPayIdentifier tag    2    let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   onTouchGesture     self view addGestureRecognizer tap      func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool      if textField returnKeyType    UIReturnKeyType Default           if let next   textField superview  viewWithTag textField tag 1  as  UITextField              next becomeFirstResponder              return false                  textField resignFirstResponder      return false    func onTouchGesture        self view endEditing true

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for swift 3-4 i fixed like   func textFieldShouldBeginEditing   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       return false     just copy paste anywhere on the class  This solution just work if you want all UItextfield work as same  or if you have just one

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simply use this in swift to dismiss keyboard   UIApplication sharedApplication   sendAction  resignFirstResponder   to nil  from nil  forEvent nil    Swift 3  UIApplication shared sendAction  selector UIResponder resign  FirstResponder   to  nil  from  nil  for  nil

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IN Swift 3  override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent             self view endEditing true          OR  func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           if textField    yourtextfieldName                       self resignFirstResponder               self view endEditing true

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Add Delegate   UITextFieldDelegate   interface ViewController   UIViewController  lt UITextFieldDelegate gt    and then add this delegate method     This should work perfectly  -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return YES

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