How do you dismiss the keyboard when editing a UITextField

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I know that I need to tell my UITextField to resign first responder when I want to dismis the keyboard  but I m not sure how to know when the user has pressed the  Done  key on the keyboard  Is there a notification I can watch for

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This is how I dismiss the keyboard in Swift 4 2 and it works for me       override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad        let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action        selector dismissKeyboard        view addGestureRecognizer tap              objc func dismissKeyboard    sender  UITapGestureRecognizer        numberField resignFirstResponder

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kubi  thanks  Your code worked   Just to be explicit  for newbies like  as you say you have to set the UITextField s delegate to be equal to the ViewController in which the text field resides  You can do this wherever you please  I chose the viewDidLoad method   -  void viewDidLoad           sets the textField delegates to equal this viewController     this allows for the keyboard to disappear after pressing done     daTextField delegate   self

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if you want all editing of in a UIViewController you can use      self view endEditing YES     and if you want dismiss a perticular UITextField keyboard hide then use   1 add delegate  in your viewcontroller h   lt UITextFieldDelegate gt     make delegation unable to your textfield    self yourTextField delegate                 self  add this method in to your viewcontroller    - BOOL textFieldShouldEndEditing  UITextField   textField   textField resignFirstResponder   return YES

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Create a function hidekeyboard and link it to the textfield in the  xib file and select DidEndOnExit     - IBAction Hidekeyboard                 textfield name resignFirstResponder

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Here is a trick for getting automatic keyboard dismissal behavior with no code at all  In the nib  edit the First Responder proxy object in the Identity inspector  adding a new first responder action  let s call it dummy   Now hook the Did End on Exit event of the text field to the dummy  action of the First Responder proxy object  That s it  Since the text field s Did End on Exit event now has an action   target pair  the text field automatically dismisses its keyboard when the user taps Return  and since there is no penalty for not finding a handler for a message sent up the responder chain  the app doesn t crash even though there is no implementation of dummy  anywhere

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try this  -  BOOL  textView   UITextView   textView shouldChangeTextInRange   NSRange  range replacementText   NSString   text       if   text isEqualToString    n               textView resignFirstResponder           return NO            return YES

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textField returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyDone

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If you connect the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to an action  IBAction  in InterfaceBuilder  it will be messaged when the user dismisses the keyboard  with the return key  and the sender will be a reference to the UITextField that fired the event   For example   - IBAction userDoneEnteringText  id sender       UITextField theField    UITextField  sender         do whatever you want with this text field     Then  in InterfaceBuilder  link the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to this action on your controller  or whatever you re using to link events from the UI   Whenever the user enters text and dismisses the text field  the controller will be sent this message

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I set the delegate of the UITextField to my ViewController class    In that class I implemented this method as following   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return NO

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textField returnKeyType   UIReturnKeyDone

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Programmatically set the delegate of the UITextField in swift 3  Implement UITextFieldDelegate in your ViewController Swift file  e g class ViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate       lazy var firstNameTF  UITextField          let firstname   UITextField       firstname placeholder    FirstName      firstname frame   CGRect x 38  y  100  width  244  height  30      firstname textAlignment    center     firstname borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle roundedRect     firstname keyboardType   UIKeyboardType default     firstname delegate   self     return firstname      lazy var lastNameTF  UITextField          let lastname   UITextField       lastname placeholder    LastName      lastname frame   CGRect x 38  y  150  width  244  height  30      lastname textAlignment    center     lastname borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle roundedRect     lastname keyboardType   UIKeyboardType default     lastname delegate   self     return lastname      lazy var emailIdTF  UITextField          let emailid   UITextField       emailid placeholder    EmailId      emailid frame   CGRect x 38  y  200  width  244  height  30      emailid textAlignment    center     emailid borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle roundedRect     emailid keyboardType   UIKeyboardType default     emailid delegate   self     return emailid          Mark - handling  delegate textField    override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent         view endEditing true     func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool        if textField    firstNameTF            lastNameTF becomeFirstResponder              else if textField    lastNameTF            emailIdTF becomeFirstResponder             else           view emailIdTF true            return true

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You can also create a method in your controller   - IBAction editingEnded  id sender       sender resignFirstResponder        and then in  Connection Inspector in IB connect Event  Did End On Exit  to it

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Here s what I had to do to get it to work  and I think is necessary for anyone with a Number Pad for a keyboard  or any other ones without a done button    I changed the UIView in the ViewController to a UIControl  I created a function called   - IBAction backgroundIsTapped  id sender    This was also defined in the  h file   After this  I linked to to the  touch down  bit for the ViewController in Interface Builder   In the  background is tapped  function  I put this        answerField resignFirstResponder     Just remember to change  answerField  to the name of the UITextField you want to remove the keyboard from  obviously make sure your UITextField is defined like below        IBOutlet UITextField    lt nameoftextfieldhere gt     I know this topic probably died a long time ago    but I m hoping this will help someone  somewhere

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Swift 3  iOS 9    IBAction private func noteFieldDidEndOnExit   sender  UITextField      UPD  It still works fine for me  I think guy that devoted this answer just didn t understand that he needs to bind this action to the UITextField at the storyboard

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You can also use    -  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event           self yourTextField resignFirstResponder          Best one if You have many Uitextfields    -  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event              self view endEditing YES

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I set the delegate of the UITextField to my ViewController class    In that class I implemented this method as following   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return NO

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If you connect the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to an action  IBAction  in InterfaceBuilder  it will be messaged when the user dismisses the keyboard  with the return key  and the sender will be a reference to the UITextField that fired the event   For example   - IBAction userDoneEnteringText  id sender       UITextField theField    UITextField  sender         do whatever you want with this text field     Then  in InterfaceBuilder  link the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to this action on your controller  or whatever you re using to link events from the UI   Whenever the user enters text and dismisses the text field  the controller will be sent this message

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I set the delegate of the UITextField to my ViewController class    In that class I implemented this method as following   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return NO

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If you connect the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to an action  IBAction  in InterfaceBuilder  it will be messaged when the user dismisses the keyboard  with the return key  and the sender will be a reference to the UITextField that fired the event   For example   - IBAction userDoneEnteringText  id sender       UITextField theField    UITextField  sender         do whatever you want with this text field     Then  in InterfaceBuilder  link the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to this action on your controller  or whatever you re using to link events from the UI   Whenever the user enters text and dismisses the text field  the controller will be sent this message

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Here is a trick for getting automatic keyboard dismissal behavior with no code at all  In the nib  edit the First Responder proxy object in the Identity inspector  adding a new first responder action  let s call it dummy   Now hook the Did End on Exit event of the text field to the dummy  action of the First Responder proxy object  That s it  Since the text field s Did End on Exit event now has an action   target pair  the text field automatically dismisses its keyboard when the user taps Return  and since there is no penalty for not finding a handler for a message sent up the responder chain  the app doesn t crash even though there is no implementation of dummy  anywhere

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Here is a quite clean way to end edition with the Return Key or a touch in the background   In Interface builder  embed your fields in a view of class UIFormView  What does this class     Automatically attach itself as fields delegate   Either awaked from nib  or added manually   Keep a reference on the current edited field Dismiss the keyboard on return or touch in the background   Here is the code    Interface   import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt    interface UIFormView   UIView lt UITextFieldDelegate gt   - BOOL textFieldValueIsValid  UITextField  textField  - void endEdit    end   Implementation   import  UIFormView h    implementation UIFormView       UITextField  currentEditingTextField        Automatically register fields  - void addSubview  UIView   view        super addSubview view       if   view isKindOfClass  UITextField class              if      UITextField  view delegate      UITextField  view setDelegate self               UITextField Protocol  - void textFieldDidBeginEditing  UITextField   textField       currentEditingTextField   textField     - void textFieldDidEndEditing  UITextField   textField       currentEditingTextField   NULL     - void touchesBegan  NSSet lt UITouch   gt    touches withEvent  UIEvent   event        self endEdit      -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       if   self textFieldValueIsValid textField              self endEdit           return YES        else           return NO              Own functions  - void endEdit       if  currentEditingTextField             currentEditingTextField endEditing YES           currentEditingTextField   NULL               Override this in your subclass to handle eventual values that may prevent validation   - BOOL textFieldValueIsValid  UITextField  textField       return YES      end    By subclassing the form and overriding the textFieldValueIsValid  method  you can avoid end of edition if the value is not correct for the given field  If a field has a delegate set in Interface Builder  then the form does not change it  I don t see many reasons to set a different delegate to a particular field  but why not      There is many ways to improve this form view class - Attach a delegate  do some layout  handle when the keyboards covers a field   using the currentEditingTextField frame    automatically start edition for the next field       I personally keep it in my framework  and always subclass it to add features  it is quite often useful  as-is    I hope it will helps  Cheers all

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kubi  thanks  Your code worked   Just to be explicit  for newbies like  as you say you have to set the UITextField s delegate to be equal to the ViewController in which the text field resides  You can do this wherever you please  I chose the viewDidLoad method   -  void viewDidLoad           sets the textField delegates to equal this viewController     this allows for the keyboard to disappear after pressing done     daTextField delegate   self

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You will notice that the method  textFieldShouldReturn  provides the text-field object that has hit the DONE key   If you set the TAG you can switch on that text field   Or you can track and compare the object s pointer with some member value stored by its creator   My approach is like this for a self-study   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       NSLog    s     FUNCTION          bool fDidResign    textField resignFirstResponder        NSLog    s  did  resign the keyboard     FUNCTION    fDidResign           not          return fDidResign      Meanwhile  I put the  validation  test that denies the resignation follows   It is only for illustration  so if the user types NO  into the field  it will not dismiss   The behavior was as I wanted  but the sequence of output was not as I expected   -  BOOL textFieldShouldEndEditing  UITextField   textField       NSLog    s     FUNCTION          if    textField text  isEqualToString   NO                NSLog        textField text           return NO        else           return YES            Following is my NSLog output for this denial followed by the acceptance   You will notice that I am returning the result of the resign  but I expected it to return FALSE to me to report back to the caller    Other than that  it has the necessary behavior    13 313 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn   13 320 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldEndEditing   13 327 StudyKbd 109 207  NO  13 333 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn    did resign the keyboard 59 891 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn   59 897 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldEndEditing   59 917 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController doneEditText   NO 59 928 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn    did resign the keyboard

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If you have created the view using Interface Builder  Use the following Just create a method   - IBAction dismissKeyboard  id sender    sender resignFirstResponder       Just right click the text field in the view   and set the event as Did End on Exit  and wire it to the method  dismissKeyboard    The best guide for beginners is        Head First iPhone and iPad Development  2nd Edition

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If you connect the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to an action  IBAction  in InterfaceBuilder  it will be messaged when the user dismisses the keyboard  with the return key  and the sender will be a reference to the UITextField that fired the event   For example   - IBAction userDoneEnteringText  id sender       UITextField theField    UITextField  sender         do whatever you want with this text field     Then  in InterfaceBuilder  link the DidEndOnExit event of the text field to this action on your controller  or whatever you re using to link events from the UI   Whenever the user enters text and dismisses the text field  the controller will be sent this message

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Programmatically set the delegate of the UITextField in swift 3  Implement UITextFieldDelegate in your ViewController Swift file  e g class ViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate       lazy var firstNameTF  UITextField          let firstname   UITextField       firstname placeholder    FirstName      firstname frame   CGRect x 38  y  100  width  244  height  30      firstname textAlignment    center     firstname borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle roundedRect     firstname keyboardType   UIKeyboardType default     firstname delegate   self     return firstname      lazy var lastNameTF  UITextField          let lastname   UITextField       lastname placeholder    LastName      lastname frame   CGRect x 38  y  150  width  244  height  30      lastname textAlignment    center     lastname borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle roundedRect     lastname keyboardType   UIKeyboardType default     lastname delegate   self     return lastname      lazy var emailIdTF  UITextField          let emailid   UITextField       emailid placeholder    EmailId      emailid frame   CGRect x 38  y  200  width  244  height  30      emailid textAlignment    center     emailid borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle roundedRect     emailid keyboardType   UIKeyboardType default     emailid delegate   self     return emailid          Mark - handling  delegate textField    override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent         view endEditing true     func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool        if textField    firstNameTF            lastNameTF becomeFirstResponder              else if textField    lastNameTF            emailIdTF becomeFirstResponder             else           view emailIdTF true            return true

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textFieldShouldReturn                                                         - BOOL  textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField         textField resignFirstResponder       if textField returnKeyType    UIReturnKeyDone             textField superview viewWithTag  self nextTextField  becomeFirstResponder             return YES

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textFieldShouldReturn                                                         - BOOL  textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField         textField resignFirstResponder       if textField returnKeyType    UIReturnKeyDone             textField superview viewWithTag  self nextTextField  becomeFirstResponder             return YES

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if you want all editing of in a UIViewController you can use      self view endEditing YES     and if you want dismiss a perticular UITextField keyboard hide then use   1 add delegate  in your viewcontroller h   lt UITextFieldDelegate gt     make delegation unable to your textfield    self yourTextField delegate                 self  add this method in to your viewcontroller    - BOOL textFieldShouldEndEditing  UITextField   textField   textField resignFirstResponder   return YES

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In Swift you can write an IBAction in the Controller and set the Did End On Exit event of the text field to that action   IBAction func returnPressed sender  UITextField        self view endEditing true

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This is how I dismiss the keyboard in Swift 4 2 and it works for me       override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad        let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action        selector dismissKeyboard        view addGestureRecognizer tap              objc func dismissKeyboard    sender  UITapGestureRecognizer        numberField resignFirstResponder

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Just add   textField endEditing YES     where you want to disable keyboard and display the picker view

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You can also use    -  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event           self yourTextField resignFirstResponder          Best one if You have many Uitextfields    -  void touchesBegan  NSSet   touches withEvent  UIEvent   event              self view endEditing YES

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Swift 4 2 and It will work 100   import UIKit  class ViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate         IBOutlet weak var textField  UITextField        override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            self textField delegate   self                hide key board when the user touches outside keyboard      override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent             self view endEditing true                user presses return key      func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           textField resignFirstResponder           return true

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I set the delegate of the UITextField to my ViewController class    In that class I implemented this method as following   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField        textField resignFirstResponder       return NO

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You can also create a method in your controller   - IBAction editingEnded  id sender       sender resignFirstResponder        and then in  Connection Inspector in IB connect Event  Did End On Exit  to it

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Here is a quite clean way to end edition with the Return Key or a touch in the background   In Interface builder  embed your fields in a view of class UIFormView  What does this class     Automatically attach itself as fields delegate   Either awaked from nib  or added manually   Keep a reference on the current edited field Dismiss the keyboard on return or touch in the background   Here is the code    Interface   import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt    interface UIFormView   UIView lt UITextFieldDelegate gt   - BOOL textFieldValueIsValid  UITextField  textField  - void endEdit    end   Implementation   import  UIFormView h    implementation UIFormView       UITextField  currentEditingTextField        Automatically register fields  - void addSubview  UIView   view        super addSubview view       if   view isKindOfClass  UITextField class              if      UITextField  view delegate      UITextField  view setDelegate self               UITextField Protocol  - void textFieldDidBeginEditing  UITextField   textField       currentEditingTextField   textField     - void textFieldDidEndEditing  UITextField   textField       currentEditingTextField   NULL     - void touchesBegan  NSSet lt UITouch   gt    touches withEvent  UIEvent   event        self endEdit      -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       if   self textFieldValueIsValid textField              self endEdit           return YES        else           return NO              Own functions  - void endEdit       if  currentEditingTextField             currentEditingTextField endEditing YES           currentEditingTextField   NULL               Override this in your subclass to handle eventual values that may prevent validation   - BOOL textFieldValueIsValid  UITextField  textField       return YES      end    By subclassing the form and overriding the textFieldValueIsValid  method  you can avoid end of edition if the value is not correct for the given field  If a field has a delegate set in Interface Builder  then the form does not change it  I don t see many reasons to set a different delegate to a particular field  but why not      There is many ways to improve this form view class - Attach a delegate  do some layout  handle when the keyboards covers a field   using the currentEditingTextField frame    automatically start edition for the next field       I personally keep it in my framework  and always subclass it to add features  it is quite often useful  as-is    I hope it will helps  Cheers all

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Swift 4 2 and It will work 100   import UIKit  class ViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate         IBOutlet weak var textField  UITextField        override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            self textField delegate   self                hide key board when the user touches outside keyboard      override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent             self view endEditing true                user presses return key      func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           textField resignFirstResponder           return true

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Here s what I had to do to get it to work  and I think is necessary for anyone with a Number Pad for a keyboard  or any other ones without a done button    I changed the UIView in the ViewController to a UIControl  I created a function called   - IBAction backgroundIsTapped  id sender    This was also defined in the  h file   After this  I linked to to the  touch down  bit for the ViewController in Interface Builder   In the  background is tapped  function  I put this        answerField resignFirstResponder     Just remember to change  answerField  to the name of the UITextField you want to remove the keyboard from  obviously make sure your UITextField is defined like below        IBOutlet UITextField    lt nameoftextfieldhere gt     I know this topic probably died a long time ago    but I m hoping this will help someone  somewhere

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If you have created the view using Interface Builder  Use the following Just create a method   - IBAction dismissKeyboard  id sender    sender resignFirstResponder       Just right click the text field in the view   and set the event as Did End on Exit  and wire it to the method  dismissKeyboard    The best guide for beginners is        Head First iPhone and iPad Development  2nd Edition

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Create a function hidekeyboard and link it to the textfield in the  xib file and select DidEndOnExit     - IBAction Hidekeyboard                 textfield name resignFirstResponder

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kubi  thanks  Your code worked   Just to be explicit  for newbies like  as you say you have to set the UITextField s delegate to be equal to the ViewController in which the text field resides  You can do this wherever you please  I chose the viewDidLoad method   -  void viewDidLoad           sets the textField delegates to equal this viewController     this allows for the keyboard to disappear after pressing done     daTextField delegate   self

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Swift 3  iOS 9    IBAction private func noteFieldDidEndOnExit   sender  UITextField      UPD  It still works fine for me  I think guy that devoted this answer just didn t understand that he needs to bind this action to the UITextField at the storyboard

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Just add   textField endEditing YES     where you want to disable keyboard and display the picker view

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Anyone looking for Swift 3  1  Make sure your UITextField s Delegate is wired to your ViewController in the Storyboard  2  Implement UITextFieldDelegate in your ViewController Swift file  e g class ViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate       3  Use the delegate method below  func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       textField resignFirstResponder     return false

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You will notice that the method  textFieldShouldReturn  provides the text-field object that has hit the DONE key   If you set the TAG you can switch on that text field   Or you can track and compare the object s pointer with some member value stored by its creator   My approach is like this for a self-study   -  BOOL textFieldShouldReturn  UITextField   textField       NSLog    s     FUNCTION          bool fDidResign    textField resignFirstResponder        NSLog    s  did  resign the keyboard     FUNCTION    fDidResign           not          return fDidResign      Meanwhile  I put the  validation  test that denies the resignation follows   It is only for illustration  so if the user types NO  into the field  it will not dismiss   The behavior was as I wanted  but the sequence of output was not as I expected   -  BOOL textFieldShouldEndEditing  UITextField   textField       NSLog    s     FUNCTION          if    textField text  isEqualToString   NO                NSLog        textField text           return NO        else           return YES            Following is my NSLog output for this denial followed by the acceptance   You will notice that I am returning the result of the resign  but I expected it to return FALSE to me to report back to the caller    Other than that  it has the necessary behavior    13 313 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn   13 320 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldEndEditing   13 327 StudyKbd 109 207  NO  13 333 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn    did resign the keyboard 59 891 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn   59 897 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldEndEditing   59 917 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController doneEditText   NO 59 928 StudyKbd 109 207  - StudyKbdViewController textFieldShouldReturn    did resign the keyboard

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try this  -  BOOL  textView   UITextView   textView shouldChangeTextInRange   NSRange  range replacementText   NSString   text       if   text isEqualToString    n               textView resignFirstResponder           return NO            return YES

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kubi  thanks  Your code worked   Just to be explicit  for newbies like  as you say you have to set the UITextField s delegate to be equal to the ViewController in which the text field resides  You can do this wherever you please  I chose the viewDidLoad method   -  void viewDidLoad           sets the textField delegates to equal this viewController     this allows for the keyboard to disappear after pressing done     daTextField delegate   self

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Anyone looking for Swift 3  1  Make sure your UITextField s Delegate is wired to your ViewController in the Storyboard  2  Implement UITextFieldDelegate in your ViewController Swift file  e g class ViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate       3  Use the delegate method below  func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       textField resignFirstResponder     return false

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In Swift you can write an IBAction in the Controller and set the Did End On Exit event of the text field to that action   IBAction func returnPressed sender  UITextField        self view endEditing true

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