How to navigate through textfields Next Done Buttons

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How can I navigate through all my text fields with the  Next  Button on the iPhone Keyboard   The last text field should close the Keyboard   I ve setup the IB the Buttons  Next   Done  but now I m stuck   I implemented the textFieldShouldReturn action but now the Next and Done Buttons close the Keyboard

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Swift 3 Solution  using ordered array of UITextField s  func nextTextField         let textFields      Your textfields array      for i in 0    lt  textFields count          if let textfield   textFields i   textfield isFirstResponder              textfield resignFirstResponder               if i 1  lt  textFields count  let nextextfield   textFields i 1                   nextextfield becomeFirstResponder                   return

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I rather prefer to    interface MyViewController   UIViewController  property  nonatomic  retain  IBOutletCollection UIView  NSArray  inputFields   end   In the NIB file I hook the textFields in the desired order into this inputFields array  After that I do a simple test for the index of the UITextField that reports that the user tapped return      for UITextField - BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField  textField       NSUInteger index     inputFields indexOfObject textField       index        if  index  lt   inputFields count            UIView  v     inputFields objectAtIndex index            v becomeFirstResponder             return NO        for UITextView - BOOL textView  UITextView  textView shouldChangeTextInRange  NSRange range replacementText  NSString  text       if      n  isEqualToString text             NSUInteger index     inputFields indexOfObject textView           index            if  index  lt   inputFields count                UIView  v     inputFields objectAtIndex index                v becomeFirstResponder             else                self view endEditing YES                     return NO            return YES

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I ve just created new Pod when dealing with this stuff GNTextFieldsCollectionManager  It automatically handles next last textField problem and is very easy to use     GNTextFieldsCollectionManager alloc  initWithView self view     Grabs all textfields sorted by appearing in view hierarchy  or by tags   or you can specify your own array of textFields

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I had about 10  UITextField in my story board and the way I enabled next functionality was by creating an array of UITextField and making the next UITextField the firstResponder  Here s the implementation file    import  RegistrationTableViewController h    interface RegistrationTableViewController     property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  fullNameTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  addressTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  address2TextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  cityTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  zipCodeTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  urlTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  usernameTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  emailTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  passwordTextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  confirmPWTextField    end NSArray  uiTextFieldArray   implementation RegistrationTableViewController  -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad       NSLog   view did load        uiTextFieldArray     self fullNameTextField self addressTextField self address2TextField self cityTextField self zipCodeTextField self urlTextField self usernameTextField self emailTextField self passwordTextField self confirmPWTextField       for UITextField  myField in uiTextFieldArray           myField delegate   self            - BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField      long index    uiTextFieldArray indexOfObject textField       NSLog    ld  index       if index  lt   uiTextFieldArray count - 1             uiTextFieldArray   index  becomeFirstResponder        else           uiTextFieldArray index  resignFirstResponder             return YES    -  void didReceiveMemoryWarning        super didReceiveMemoryWarning          Dispose of any resources that can be recreated      end

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I tried to solve this problem using a more sophisticated approach based on assigning each cell  or UITextField  in a UITableView a unique tag value that can be later retrieved  activate-next-uitextfield-in-uitableview-ios  I hope this helps

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This is an old post  but has a high page rank so I ll chime in with my solution   I had a similar issue and ended up creating a subclass of UIToolbar to manage the next previous done functionality in a dynamic tableView with sections  https   github com jday001 DataEntryToolbar  You set the toolbar as inputAccessoryView of your text fields and add them to its dictionary  This allows you to cycle through them forwards and backwards  even with dynamic content  There are delegate methods if you want to trigger your own functionality when textField navigation happens  but you don t have to deal with managing any tags or first responder status   There are code snippets  amp  an example app at the GitHub link to help with the implementation details  You will need your own data model to keep track of the values inside the fields

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I have added to PeyloW s answer in case you re looking to implement a previous next button functionality   -  IBAction moveThroughTextFields  UIBarButtonItem   sender        NSInteger nextTag      UITextView  currentTextField    self view findFirstResponderAndReturn        if  currentTextField    nil               I assigned tags to the buttons   0 represent prev  amp  1 represents next         if  sender tag    0                nextTag   currentTextField tag - 1             else if  sender tag    1                nextTag   currentTextField tag   1                         Try to find next responder     UIResponder  nextResponder    self view viewWithTag nextTag       if  nextResponder               Found next responder  so set it             I added the resign here in case there s different keyboards in place           currentTextField resignFirstResponder            nextResponder becomeFirstResponder         else              Not found  so remove keyboard           currentTextField resignFirstResponder              Where you subclass the UIView like this    implementation UIView  FindAndReturnFirstResponder  -  UITextView   findFirstResponderAndReturn       for  UITextView  subView in self subviews            if  subView isFirstResponder               return subView                      return nil     end

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A swift extension that applies mxcl s answer to make this particularly easy  adapted to swift 2 3 by Traveler    extension UITextField       class func connectFields fields  UITextField   - gt  Void           guard let last   fields last else               return                   for i in 0    lt  fields count - 1               fields i  returnKeyType    Next             fields i  addTarget fields i 1   action   becomeFirstResponder   forControlEvents   EditingDidEndOnExit                    last returnKeyType    Done         last addTarget last  action   selector UIResponder resignFirstResponder   forControlEvents   EditingDidEndOnExit            It s easy to use   UITextField connectFields  field1  field2  field3     The extension will set the return button to  Next  for all but the last field and to  Done  for the last field  and shift focus   dismiss the keyboard when these are tapped   Swift  lt  2 3  extension UITextField       class func connectFields fields  UITextField   - gt  Void           guard let last   fields last else               return                   for var i   0  i  lt  fields count - 1  i    1               fields i  returnKeyType    Next             fields i  addTarget fields i 1   action   becomeFirstResponder   forControlEvents   EditingDidEndOnExit                    last returnKeyType    Done         last addTarget last  action   resignFirstResponder   forControlEvents   EditingDidEndOnExit            SWIFT 3  use like this -   UITextField connectFields fields   field1  field2    Extension      extension UITextField           class func connectFields fields  UITextField   - gt  Void               guard let last   fields last else                   return                           for i in 0    lt  fields count - 1                   fields i  returnKeyType    next                 fields i  addTarget fields i 1   action   selector UIResponder becomeFirstResponder   for   editingDidEndOnExit                            last returnKeyType    go             last addTarget last  action   selector UIResponder resignFirstResponder   for   editingDidEndOnExit

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A more consistent and robust way is to use NextResponderTextField You can configure it totally from interface builder with no need for setting the delegate or using view tag   All you need to do is    Set the class type of your UITextField to be NextResponderTextField   Then set the outlet of the nextResponderField to point to the next responder it can be anything UITextField or any UIResponder subclass  It can be also a UIButton and the library is smart enough to trigger the TouchUpInside event of the button only if it s enabled      Here is the library in action

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There is a much more elegant solution which blew me away the first time I saw it  Benefits    Closer to OSX textfield implementation where a textfield knows where the focus should go next Does not rely on setting or using tags -- which are  IMO fragile for this use case Can be extended to work with both UITextField and UITextView controls -- or any keyboard entry UI control Doesn t clutter your view controller with boilerplate UITextField delegate code Integrates nicely with IB and can be configured through the familiar option-drag-drop to connect outlets    Create a UITextField subclass which has an IBOutlet property called nextField  Here s the header    interface SOTextField   UITextField   property  weak  nonatomic  IBOutlet UITextField  nextField     end   And here s the implementation    implementation SOTextField   end   In your view controller  you ll create the -textFieldShouldReturn  delegate method   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       if   textField isKindOfClass  SOTextField class              UITextField  nextField     SOTextField   textField nextField            if  nextField                dispatch async dispatch get current queue                        nextField becomeFirstResponder                                     else                textField resignFirstResponder                        return YES      In IB  change your UITextFields to use the SOTextField class  Next  also in IB  set the delegate for each of the  SOTextFields to  File s Owner   which is right where you put the code for the delegate method - textFieldShouldReturn   The beauty of this design is that now you can simply right-click on any textField and assign the nextField outlet to the next SOTextField object you want to be the next responder      Moreover  you can do cool things like loop the textFields so that after the last one loses focus  the first one will receive focus again   This can easily be extended to automatically assign the returnKeyType of the SOTextField to a UIReturnKeyNext if there is a nextField assigned -- one less thing manually configure

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Without usings tags and without adding a property for nextField nextTextField  you can try this to emulate TAB  where  testInput  is your current active field   if   textInput isFirstResponder        textInput superview subviews enumerateObjectsAtIndexes        NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndexesInRange        NSMakeRange  textInput superview subviews indexOfObject textInput  1                     textInput superview subviews count - textInput superview subviews indexOfObject textInput -1                                                       options 0 usingBlock   UIView  obj  NSUInteger idx  BOOL  stop                                                             stop    obj hidden  amp  amp   obj becomeFirstResponder                                                           if   textInput isFirstResponder        textInput superview subviews enumerateObjectsAtIndexes        NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndexesInRange        NSMakeRange 0                     textInput superview subviews indexOfObject textInput                                                        options 0 usingBlock   UIView  obj  NSUInteger idx  BOOL  stop                                                             stop    obj hidden  amp  amp   obj becomeFirstResponder

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Here is an implementation of tabbing using a category on UIControl  This solution has all of the advantages of the methods from Michael and Anth0  but works for all UIControls  not just UITextFields  It also works seamlessly with Interface Builder and storyboards   Source and sample app  GitHub repository for UIControlsWithTabbing  Usage   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField transferFirstResponderToNextControl       return NO        Header         UIControl NextControl h    UIControlsWithTabbing      import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt    interface UIControl  NextControl    property  nonatomic  weak  IBOutlet UIControl  nextControl   -  BOOL transferFirstResponderToNextControl    end   Implementation    import  UIControl NextControl h   import  lt objc runtime h gt   static char defaultHashKey    implementation UIControl  NextControl   -  UIControl   nextControl       return objc getAssociatedObject self   amp defaultHashKey      -  void setNextControl  UIControl   nextControl       objc setAssociatedObject self   amp defaultHashKey  nextControl  OBJC ASSOCIATION RETAIN NONATOMIC      -  BOOL transferFirstResponderToNextControl       if  self nextControl                 self nextControl becomeFirstResponder            return YES              self resignFirstResponder        return NO      end

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Here s one without delegation   tf1 addTarget tf2  action   selector becomeFirstResponder   for   editingDidEndOnExit  tf2 addTarget tf3  action   selector becomeFirstResponder   for   editingDidEndOnExit    ObjC    tf1 addTarget tf2 action  selector becomeFirstResponder  forControlEvents UIControlEventEditingDidEndOnExit    tf2 addTarget tf3 action  selector becomeFirstResponder  forControlEvents UIControlEventEditingDidEndOnExit     Works using the  mostly unknown  UIControlEventEditingDidEndOnExit UITextField action   You can also easily hook this up in the storyboard  so no delegation or code is required   Edit  actually I cannot figure out how to hook this up in storyboard  becomeFirstResponder does not seem to be a offered action for this control-event  which is a pity  Still  you can hook all your textfields up to a single action in your ViewController which then determines which textField to becomeFirstResponder based on the sender  though then it is not as elegant as the above programmatic solution so IMO do it with the above code in viewDidLoad

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I ve been using Michael G  Emmons  answer for about a year now  works great  I did notice recently that calling resignFirstResponder and then becomeFirstResponder immediately can cause the keyboard to  glitch   disappearing and then appearing immediately  I changed his version slightly to skip the resignFirstResponder if the nextField is available    -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField         if   textField isKindOfClass  NRTextField class                  NRTextField  nText    NRTextField  textField          if   nText nextField     nil               dispatch async dispatch get main queue                                     nText nextField  becomeFirstResponder                          else               textField resignFirstResponder                       else           textField resignFirstResponder              return true

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Here is a Swift 3 version of Anth0 s answer  I m posting it here to help any swift developers in wanting to take advantage of his great answer  I took the liberty of adding a return key type of  Next  when you set the associated object   extension UITextField       nonobjc static var NextHashKey  UniChar   0    var nextTextField  UITextField        get         return objc getAssociatedObject self            amp UITextField NextHashKey  as  UITextField           set next         self returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyType next      objc setAssociatedObject self         amp UITextField NextHashKey next  OBJC ASSOCIATION RETAIN NONATOMIC                Here is another extension that shows a possibility of using the above code to cycle through a list of UITextFields   extension UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate    public func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool      guard let next   textField nextTextField else        textField resignFirstResponder        return true           next becomeFirstResponder       return false         And then in your ViewController or wherever  you can setup your textfields like so      IBOutlet fileprivate weak var textfield1  UITextField   IBOutlet fileprivate weak var textfield2  UITextField   IBOutlet fileprivate weak var textfield3  UITextField         textfield1  textfield2  textfield3  forEach   0  delegate   self    textfield1 nextTextField   textfield2 textfield2 nextTextField   textfield3    We don t assign a nextTextField to textfield3 because we want     textfield3 to be the last one and resignFirstResponder when     the return button on the soft keyboard is tapped

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After you exit from one text field  you call  otherTextField becomeFirstResponder  and the next field gets focus   This can actually be a tricky problem to deal with since often you ll also want to scroll the screen or otherwise adjust the position of the text field so it s easy to see when editing   Just make sure to do a lot of testing with coming into and out of the text fields in different ways and also leaving early  always give the user an option to dismiss the keyboard instead of going to the next field  usually with  Done  in the nav bar

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Here is my solution for this problem   To solve this  and because I hate relying on tags to do stuff  I decided to add a custom property to the UITextField object  In other words I created a category on UITextField like this    UITextField Extended h   interface UITextField  Extended    property retain  nonatomic UITextField  nextTextField    end   UITextField Extended m   import  UITextField Extended h   import  lt objc runtime h gt   static char defaultHashKey    implementation UITextField  Extended   -  UITextField   nextTextField        return objc getAssociatedObject self   amp defaultHashKey       -  void  setNextTextField  UITextField   nextTextField      objc setAssociatedObject self   amp defaultHashKey  nextTextField  OBJC ASSOCIATION RETAIN NONATOMIC        end   Now  here is how I use it    UITextField  textField1      init your textfield UITextField  textField2      init your textfield UITextField  textField3      init your textfield  textField1 nextTextField   textField2  textField2 nextTextField   textField3  textField3 nextTextField   nil    And implement the textFieldShouldReturn method    -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   theTextField        UITextField  next   theTextField nextTextField      if  next             next becomeFirstResponder         else            theTextField resignFirstResponder              return NO       I now have kind of a linked list of UITextField  each one knowing who s next in the line   Hope it ll help

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A very easy method for dismissing the keyboard when the  Done  button is pressed is   Create a new IBAction in the header  -  IBAction textFieldDoneEditing  id sender    In the implementation file   m file  add the following method   -  IBAction textFieldDoneEditing  id sender        sender resignFirstResponder       Then  when you come to link the IBAction to the textfield - link to the  Did End On Exit  event

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This worked for me in Xamarin iOS   Monotouch  Change the keyboard button to Next  pass the control to the next UITextField and hide the keyboard after the last UITextField   private void SetShouldReturnDelegates IEnumerable lt UIView gt  subViewsToScout       foreach  var item in subViewsToScout Where item   gt  item GetType      typeof  UITextField             item as UITextField  ReturnKeyType   UIReturnKeyType Next       item as UITextField  ShouldReturn     textField    gt                nint nextTag   textField Tag   1          var nextResponder   textField Superview ViewWithTag nextTag           if  null    nextResponder              nextResponder BecomeFirstResponder            else             textField Superview EndEditing true                  You could also use textField ResignFirstResponder              return false     We do not want UITextField to insert line-breaks                 Inside the ViewDidLoad you ll have   If your TextFields haven t a Tag set it now   txtField1 Tag   0  txtField2 Tag   1  txtField3 Tag   2          and just the call  SetShouldReturnDelegates yourViewWithTxtFields Subviews ToList       If you are not sure of which view contains your fields you can also call it in a safer way  SetShouldReturnDelegates txtField1 Superview Subviews ToList       You can also reuse the same method with different containerViews in case your UITextField are under different views

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in textFieldShouldReturn you should check that the textfield you are currently on is not the last one when they click next and if its n ot dont dismiss the keyboard

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- BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        self view viewWithTag textField tag 1  becomeFirstResponder      return YES

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In Cocoa for Mac OS X  you have the next responder chain  where you can ask the text field what control should have focus next  This is what makes tabbing between text fields work  But since iOS devices do not have a keyboard  only touch  this concept has not survived the transition to Cocoa Touch   This can be easily done anyway  with two assumptions    All  tabbable  UITextFields are on the same parent view  Their  tab-order  is defined by the tag property    Assuming this you can override textFieldShouldReturn  as this   - BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField  textField     NSInteger nextTag   textField tag   1       Try to find next responder   UIResponder  nextResponder    textField superview viewWithTag nextTag     if  nextResponder           Found next responder  so set it       nextResponder becomeFirstResponder       else          Not found  so remove keyboard       textField resignFirstResponder         return NO     We do not want UITextField to insert line-breaks      Add some more code  and the assumptions can be ignored as well   Swift 4 0   func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       let nextTag   textField tag   1        Try to find next responder     let nextResponder   textField superview  viewWithTag nextTag  as UIResponder       if nextResponder    nil              Found next responder  so set it         nextResponder  becomeFirstResponder         else              Not found  so remove keyboard         textField resignFirstResponder              return false     If the superview of the text field will be a UITableViewCell then next responder will be  let nextResponder   textField superview  superview  superview  viewWithTag nextTag  as UIResponder

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if  cell    nil        cell     UITableViewCell alloc  initWithStyle UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier cellIdentifier       txt Input      UITextField alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 0  10  150  30        txt Input tag   indexPath row 1       self array Textfields addObject txt Input      Initialize mutable array in ViewDidLoad    - BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        int tag     int  textField tag       UITextField   txt      self array Textfields objectAtIndex tag           txt becomeFirstResponder        return YES

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Solution in Swift 3 1  After connecting your textfields IBOutlets set your textfields delegate in viewDidLoad  And then navigate your action in textFieldShouldReturn  class YourViewController  UIViewController UITextFieldDelegate             IBOutlet weak var passwordTextField  UITextField           IBOutlet weak var phoneTextField  UITextField           override func viewDidLoad                 super viewDidLoad               self passwordTextField delegate   self             self phoneTextField delegate   self                Set your return type             self phoneTextField returnKeyType    next             self passwordTextField returnKeyType    done                    func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool              if textField    self phoneTextField                   self passwordTextField becomeFirstResponder                else if textField    self passwordTextField                     Call login api                 self login                             return true

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A safer and more direct way  assuming    the text field delegates are set to your view controller all of the text fields are subviews of the same view the text fields have tags in the order you want to progress  e g   textField2 tag   2  textField3 tag   3  etc   moving to the next text field will happen when you tap the return button on the keyboard  you can change this to next  done  etc   you want the keyboard to dismiss after the last text field   Swift 4 1   extension ViewController  UITextFieldDelegate       func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           let nextTag   textField tag   1         guard let nextTextField   textField superview  viewWithTag nextTag  else               textField resignFirstResponder               return false                nextTextField becomeFirstResponder        return false

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I like the OO solutions that have already been suggested by Anth0 and Answerbot  However  I was working on a quick and small POC  so I didn t want to clutter things with subclasses and categories   Another simple solution is to create an NSArray of fields and lookup the next field when you press next  Not an OO solution  but quick  simple  and easy to implement  Also  you can see and modify the ordering at a glance    Here s my code  built upon other answers in this thread     property  nonatomic  NSArray  fieldArray   -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad        fieldArray    NSArray arrayWithObjects  firstField  secondField  thirdField  nil      -  BOOL  textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField    textField       BOOL didResign    textField resignFirstResponder       if   didResign  return NO       NSUInteger index    self fieldArray indexOfObject textField       if  index    NSNotFound    index   1    fieldArray count  return NO       id nextField    fieldArray objectAtIndex index   1       activeField   nextField       nextField becomeFirstResponder        return NO       I always return NO because I don t want a line break inserted  Just thought I d point that out since when I returned YES it would automatically exit the subsequent fields or insert a line break in my TextView  It took me a bit of time to figure that out  activeField keeps track of the active field in case scrolling is necessary to unobscure the field from the keyboard  If you have similar code  make sure you assign the activeField before changing the first responder  Changing first responder is immediate and will fire the KeyboardWasShown event immediately

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I have tried many codes and finally  this worked for me in Swift 3 0 Latest  March 2017   The ViewController class should be inherited the UITextFieldDelegate for making this code working   class ViewController  UIViewController UITextFieldDelegate     Add the Text field with the Proper Tag number and this tag number is used to take the control to appropriate text field based on incremental tag number assigned to it   override func viewDidLoad         userNameTextField delegate   self     userNameTextField tag   0     userNameTextField returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyType next     passwordTextField delegate   self     passwordTextField tag   1     passwordTextField returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyType go     In the above code  the returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyType next where will make the Key pad return key to display as Next you also have other options as Join Go etc  based on your application change the values   This  textFieldShouldReturn is a method of  UITextFieldDelegate controlled and here we have next field selection based on the Tag value incrementation  func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       if let nextField   textField superview  viewWithTag textField tag   1  as  UITextField           nextField becomeFirstResponder         else           textField resignFirstResponder           return true            return false

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Swift 4 for mxcl answer   txtFirstname addTarget txtLastname  action    selector becomeFirstResponder   for  UIControlEvents editingDidEndOnExit

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This is a simple solution in swift  with no tag using  no storyboard tricks     Just use this extension    extension UITextField       func nextTextFieldField   - gt  UITextField             field to return         var returnField   UITextField          if self superview    nil                for each view in superview             for     view  in self superview  subviews enumerate                      if subview is a text s field                 if view isKindOfClass UITextField                         cast curent view as text field                     let currentTextField   view as  UITextField                       if text field is after the current one                     if currentTextField frame origin y  gt  self frame origin y                            if there is no text field to return already                         if returnField    nil                                 set as default return                             returnField   currentTextField                                                         else if this this less far than the other                         else if currentTextField frame origin y  lt  returnField  frame origin y                                this is the field to return                             returnField   currentTextField                                                                                                     end of the mdethod         return returnField            And call it like this  for example  with your textfield delegate   func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       textField resignFirstResponder       textField nextTextFieldField    becomeFirstResponder       return true

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First set keyboard return key in xib  otherwise you can write code in viewdidload   passWord returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyNext   - BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       if textField    eMail             textField resignFirstResponder            userName becomeFirstResponder             if  textField  userName             textField resignFirstResponder            passWord becomeFirstResponder             if  textField  passWord             textField resignFirstResponder            country becomeFirstResponder             if  textField  country             textField resignFirstResponder             return YES

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If someone wants like this  I think this is the closest to the requirements asked for in question     Here is how I have implemented this one  Add accessory view for each text field for which you want the setup  using   func setAccessoryViewFor textField   UITextField           let toolBar   UIToolbar       toolBar barStyle    default     toolBar isTranslucent   true     toolBar sizeToFit           Adds the buttons         Add previousButton     let prevButton   UIBarButtonItem title    lt    style   plain  target  self  action   selector previousPressed sender         prevButton tag   textField tag     if getPreviousResponderFor tag  textField tag     nil           prevButton isEnabled   false               Add nextButton     let nextButton   UIBarButtonItem title    gt    style   plain  target  self  action   selector nextPressed sender         nextButton tag   textField tag     if getNextResponderFor tag  textField tag     nil           nextButton title    Done             let spaceButton   UIBarButtonItem barButtonSystemItem   flexibleSpace  target  nil  action  nil      toolBar setItems  prevButton spaceButton nextButton   animated  false      toolBar isUserInteractionEnabled   true     textField inputAccessoryView   toolBar     Use following functions to handle taps   func nextPressed sender   UIBarButtonItem        if let nextResponder   getNextResponderFor tag  sender tag            nextResponder becomeFirstResponder         else           self view endEditing true            func previousPressed sender   UIBarButtonItem        if let previousResponder   getPreviousResponderFor tag   sender tag             previousResponder becomeFirstResponder            func getNextResponderFor tag   Int  - gt  UITextField        return self view viewWithTag tag   1  as  UITextField    func getPreviousResponderFor tag   Int  - gt  UITextField        return self view viewWithTag tag - 1  as  UITextField     You will need to give the textFields tags in sequence in which you want the next prev button to respond

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I am surprised by how many answers here fail to understand one simple concept  navigating through controls in your app is not something the views themselves should do  It s the controller s job to decide which control to make the next first responder   Also most answers only applied to navigating forward  but users may also want to go backwards   So here s what I ve come up with  Your form should be managed by a view controller  and view controllers are part of the responder chain  So you re perfectly free to implement the following methods    pragma mark - Key Commands  -  NSArray   keyCommands       static NSArray  commands       static dispatch once t once      dispatch once  amp once             UIKeyCommand  const forward    UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput    t  modifierFlags 0 action  selector tabForward             UIKeyCommand  const backward    UIKeyCommand keyCommandWithInput    t  modifierFlags UIKeyModifierShift action  selector tabBackward              commands     forward  backward                return commands     -  void tabForward  UIKeyCommand   command       NSArray  const controls   self controls      UIResponder  firstResponder   nil       for  UIResponder  const responder in controls            if  firstResponder    nil  amp  amp  responder canBecomeFirstResponder                 responder becomeFirstResponder   return                    else if  responder isFirstResponder                firstResponder   responder                        controls firstObject becomeFirstResponder      -  void tabBackward  UIKeyCommand   command       NSArray  const controls   self controls      UIResponder  firstResponder   nil       for  UIResponder  const responder in controls reverseObjectEnumerator            if  firstResponder    nil  amp  amp  responder canBecomeFirstResponder                 responder becomeFirstResponder   return                    else if  responder isFirstResponder                firstResponder   responder                        controls lastObject becomeFirstResponder       Additional logic for scrolling offscreen responders visible beforehand may apply   Another advantage of this approach is that you don t need to subclass all kinds of controls you may want to display  like UITextFields  but can instead manage the logic at controller level  where  let s be honest  is the right place to do so

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you can use IQKeyboardManager library to do this  it handle every thing  you don t need any additional setup IQKeyboardManager is available through CocoaPods  to install it simply add the following line to your Podfile   pod  IQKeyboardManager    or Just drag and drop IQKeyBoardManager directory from demo project to your project  That s it  you can find IQKeyBoardManager directory from https   github com hackiftekhar IQKeyboardManager

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Hi to everyone please see this one  -  void nextPrevious  id sender      UIView  responder    self view findFirstResponder         if  nil    responder      responder isKindOfClass  GroupTextField class          return         switch   UISegmentedControl   sender selectedSegmentIndex         case 0           previous       if  nil      GroupTextField   responder  previousControl               GroupTextField   responder  previousControl becomeFirstResponder           DebugLog   currentControl   i previousControl   i    GroupTextField   responder  tag   GroupTextField   responder  previousControl tag                 break      case 1           next       if  nil      GroupTextField   responder  nextControl               GroupTextField   responder  nextControl becomeFirstResponder           DebugLog   currentControl   i nextControl   i    GroupTextField   responder  tag   GroupTextField   responder  nextControl tag                      break

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