Close iOS Keyboard by touching anywhere using Swift

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I have been looking all over for this but I can t seem to find it   I know how to dismiss the keyboard using Objective-C but I have no idea how to do that using Swift  Does anyone know

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Posting as a new answer since my edit of @King-Wizard's answer was rejected.

Make your class a delegate of the UITextField and override touchesBegan.

Swift 4

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {

    @IBOutlet var textField: UITextField!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        textField.delegate = self
    }

    //Called when 'return' key is pressed. Return false to keep the keyboard visible.
    func textFieldShouldReturn(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        return true
    }

    // Called when the user clicks on the view (outside of UITextField).
    override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
        self.view.endEditing(true)
    }

}

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Simple exercise to demonstrate  assuming the view controller has a   Textfield  Button and a Label  And that the label should display the   userinputs when button clicked  And if you want the keyboard to disappear   when clicken anywhere on the screen   upon clicking Return key in the   keyboard  Dont forget to add  UITextFieldDelegate  and     self userInput delegate   self  as below  import UIKit  class ViewController  UIViewController UITextFieldDelegate         IBOutlet weak var userInput  UITextField       IBAction func transferBtn sender  AnyObject                    display text   userInput text             IBOutlet weak var display  UILabel       override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad      This is important for the textFieldShouldReturn function  conforming to textfieldDelegate and setting it to self         self userInput delegate   self            override func didReceiveMemoryWarning             super didReceiveMemoryWarning              Dispose of any resources that can be recreated           This is for the keyboard to GO AWAYY    when user clicks anywhere on the view     override func touchesBegan touches  Set lt UITouch gt   withEvent event  UIEvent             self view endEditing true            This is for the keyboard to GO AWAYY    when user clicks  Return  key  on the keyboard      func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           textField resignFirstResponder           return true

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import UIKit    class ItemViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate       IBOutlet weak var nameTextField  UITextField       override func viewDidLoad                super viewDidLoad              self nameTextField delegate   self                Called when  return  key pressed  return NO to ignore       func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool                textField resignFirstResponder                return true             Called when the user click on the view  outside the UITextField    override func touchesBegan touches  Set lt UITouch gt   withEvent event  UIEvent              self view endEditing true

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As a novice programmer it can be confusing when people produce more skilled and unnecessary responses   You do not have to do any of the complicated stuff shown above      Here is the simplest option   In the case your keyboard appears in response to the textfield - Inside your touch screen function just add the resignFirstResponder function  As shown below - the keyboard will close because the First Responder is released  exiting the Responder chain      override func touchesBegan    Set lt UITouch gt   with  UIEvent        MyTextField resignFirstResponder

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You can call  resignFirstResponder     on any instance of a UIResponder  such as a UITextField  If you call it on the view that is currently causing the keyboard to be displayed then the keyboard will dismiss

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Here is how to dismiss the keyboard by tapping anywhere else  in 2 lines using Swift 5   I hate to add another answer  but since this is the top result on Google I will to help rookies like me   In your ViewController swift  find the viewDidLoad   function  Add these 2 lines  let tap  UIGestureRecognizer   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self view  action   selector UIView endEditing            view addGestureRecognizer tap

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Another possibility is to simply add a big button with no content that lies underneath all views you might need to touch  Give it an action named    IBAction func dismissKeyboardButton sender  AnyObject        view endEditing true      The problem with a gesture recognizer was for me  that it also caught all touches I wanted to receive by the tableViewCells

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If you use a scroll view  It could be much simpler     Just select Dismiss interactively in storyboard

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A simple way to do this is by selecting the text field and using the method endEditing true   e g  exampleTextField endEditing true

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override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad                    Looks for single or multiple taps        let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector UIInputViewController dismissKeyboard          Uncomment the line below if you want the tap not not interfere and cancel other interactions        tap cancelsTouchesInView   false       view addGestureRecognizer tap       Calls this function when the tap is recognized   objc func dismissKeyboard           Causes the view  or one of its embedded text fields  to resign the first responder status      view endEditing true     Here is another way to do this task if you are going to use this functionality in multiple UIViewControllers     Put this piece of code anywhere you like extension UIViewController       func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround             let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector UIViewController dismissKeyboard           tap cancelsTouchesInView   false                     view addGestureRecognizer tap                  objc func dismissKeyboard             view endEditing true           Now in every UIViewController  all you have to do is call this function  override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       self hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround       This function is included as a standard function in my repo which contains a lot of useful Swift Extensions like this one  check it out  https   github com goktugyil EZSwiftExtensions

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To expand on Esqarrouth s answer  I always use the following to dismiss the keyboard  especially if the class from which I am dismissing the keyboard does not have a view property and or is not a subclass of UIView   UIApplication shared keyWindow  endEditing true    And  for convenience  the following extension to the UIApplcation class   extension UIApplication            Dismisses the keyboard from the key window of the         shared application instance                  - Parameters              - force  specify  true  to force first responder to resign      open class func endEditing   force  Bool   false            shared endEditing force                 Dismisses the keyboard from the key window of this          application instance                  - Parameters              - force  specify  true  to force first responder to resign      open func endEditing   force  Bool   false            keyWindow  endEditing force

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In storyboard     select the TableView from the the right-hand-side  select the attribute inspector in the keyboard section - select the dismiss mode you want

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I found the best solution included the accepted answer from  Esqarrouth  with some adjustments   extension UIViewController       func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround             let tap  UITapGestureRecognizer   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   dismissKeyboardView           tap cancelsTouchesInView   false         view addGestureRecognizer tap             func dismissKeyboardView             view endEditing true            The line tap cancelsTouchesInView   false was critical  it ensures that the UITapGestureRecognizer does not prevent other elements on the view from receiving user interaction    The method dismissKeyboard   was changed to the slightly less elegant dismissKeyboardView    This is because in my project s fairly old codebase  there were numerous times where dismissKeyboard   was already used  I imagine this is not uncommon   causing compiler issues    Then  as above  this behaviour can be enabled in individual View Controllers   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       self hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround

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swift 5 just two lines is enough  Add into your viewDidLoad should work    let tapGesture   UITapGestureRecognizer target  view  action   selector UIView endEditing    view addGestureRecognizer tapGesture    If your tap gesture blocked some other touches  then add this line   tapGesture cancelsTouchesInView   false

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I got you fam  override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad     This ensures that our view loaded       self textField delegate   self   we select our text field that we want          self view addGestureRecognizer UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action  Selector  dismissKeyboard        func dismissKeyboard      this is a void function       textField resignFirstResponder     This will dismiss our keyboard on tap

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I have use IQKeyBoardManagerSwift for keyboard  it is easy to use  just Add pod  IQKeyboardManagerSwift   Import IQKeyboardManagerSwift and write code on didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in AppDelegate      add this line  IQKeyboardManager shared shouldResignOnTouchOutside   true IQKeyboardManager shared enable   true

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Swift 3  Easiest way to dismiss keyboard       Dismiss keyboard method     func keyboardDismiss             textField resignFirstResponder                ADD Gesture Recignizer to Dismiss keyboard then view tapped      IBAction func viewTapped   sender  AnyObject            keyboardDismiss                Dismiss keyboard using Return Key  Done  Button       Do not forgot to add protocol UITextFieldDelegate      func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           keyboardDismiss            return true

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Swift 3  override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent         self view endEditing true

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I worked out on uisearchbar   See mine   import UIKit  class BidderPage  UIViewController UISearchBarDelegate UITableViewDataSource         let recognizer   UITapGestureRecognizer       Set recogniser as public in case of tableview and didselectindexpath        func searchBarTextDidBeginEditing searchBar  UISearchBar                  recognizer addTarget self  action   handleTap            view addGestureRecognizer recognizer              func handleTap recognizer  UITapGestureRecognizer            biddersearchbar  resignFirstResponder             func searchBarTextDidEndEditing searchBar  UISearchBar                view  removeGestureRecognizer recognizer

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Dash s answer is correct and preferred  A more  scorched earth  approach is to call view endEditing true   This causes view and all its subviews to resignFirstResponder  If you don t have a reference to the view you d like to dismiss  this is a hacky but effective solution      Note that personally I think you should have a reference to the view you d like to have resign first responder   endEditing force  Bool  is a barbaric approach  please don t use it

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A Swift4 Swift5   RxSwift example  import RxGesture as well  view rx tapGesture            when GestureRecognizerState recognized           subscribe     in             self view endEditing true                      disposed by  disposeBag

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An answer to your question on how to dismiss the keyboard in Xcode 6 1 using Swift below   import UIKit  class ItemViewController  UIViewController  UITextFieldDelegate         IBOutlet var textFieldItemName  UITextField        IBOutlet var textFieldQt  UITextField        IBOutlet var textFieldMoreInfo  UITextField        override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            textFieldItemName delegate   self         textFieldQt delegate   self         textFieldMoreInfo delegate   self                                                   Called when  return  key pressed  return NO to ignore              func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool           textField resignFirstResponder           return true                      Called when the user click on the view  outside the UITextField              override func touchesBegan touches  Set lt UITouch gt   withEvent event  UIEvent             self view endEditing true              Source of this information

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Able to achieve this by adding a global tap gesture recognizer to the window property in the AppDelegate   This was a very catch all approach and might not be the desired solution for some but it worked for me  Please let me know if there any pitfalls to this solution    UIApplicationMain class AppDelegate  UIResponder  UIApplicationDelegate        var window  UIWindow       func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplication LaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool               Globally dismiss the keyboard when the  background  is tapped          window  addGestureRecognizer              UITapGestureRecognizer                target  window                 action   selector UIWindow endEditing                                       return true

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Swift 3   Extension with Selector as parameter to be able to do additional stuff in the dismiss function and cancelsTouchesInView to prevent distortion with touches on other elements of the view   extension UIViewController       func hideKeyboardOnTap   selector  Selector            let tap  UITapGestureRecognizer   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action  selector          tap cancelsTouchesInView   false         view addGestureRecognizer tap            Usage   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       self hideKeyboardOnTap  selector self dismissKeyboard      func dismissKeyboard         view endEditing true         do aditional stuff

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for Swift 3 it is very simple  override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent         self view endEditing true      if you want to hide keyboard on pressing RETURN key   func textFieldShouldReturn   textField  UITextField  - gt  Bool       textField resignFirstResponder       return true     but in second case you will also need to pass delegate from all textFields to the ViewController in the Main Storyboard

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Add this extension to your ViewController      extension UIViewController      Ends editing view when touches to view    open override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent         super touchesBegan touches  with  event      self view endEditing true

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Swift 4 working  Create extension as below  amp  call hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround   in your Base view controller          UIViewController Extension swift     Project Name        Created by ABC on 2 3 18      Copyright    2018 ABC  All rights reserved      import UIKit  extension UIViewController       func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround             let tapGesture   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self                            action   selector hideKeyboard           view addGestureRecognizer tapGesture              objc func hideKeyboard             view endEditing true            Most important thing to call in your Base View Controller so that no need to call all time in all view controllers

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You can also add a tap gesture recognizer to resign the keyboard   D   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad          Do any additional setup after loading the view  typically from a nib       let recognizer   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action  Selector  handleTap         backgroundView addGestureRecognizer recognizer        func handleTap recognizer  UITapGestureRecognizer        textField resignFirstResponder       textFieldtwo resignFirstResponder       textFieldthree resignFirstResponder        println  tappped

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I found this simple solution  1  Add UITapGestureRecognizer to your view Controller 2  Add IBAction to your UITapGestureRecognizer 3  Finally you can resign the first responder  class ViewController  UIViewController     IBOutlet var tap  UITapGestureRecognizer   IBOutlet weak var label  UILabel   IBOutlet weak var textField  UITextField  override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad          Do any additional setup after loading the view  typically from a nib       IBAction func dismissUsingGesture   sender  UITapGestureRecognizer       self textField resignFirstResponder       label text   textField text

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In Swift 4  add  objc   In the viewDidLoad   let tap  UITapGestureRecognizer   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector self dismissKeyboard   view addGestureRecognizer tap    Function    objc func dismissKeyboard       view endEditing true

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Just one line of code in viewDidLoad   method   view addGestureRecognizer UITapGestureRecognizer target  view  action   selector UIView endEditing

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If you have other views that should receive the touch as well you have to set  cancelsTouchesInView   false  Like this   let elsewhereTap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector dismissKeyboard       elsewhereTap cancelsTouchesInView   false     self view addGestureRecognizer elsewhereTap

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When there is more than one text field in the view  To follow  modocache s recommendation to avoid calling view endEditing    you could keep track of the text field that became first responder  but that is messy and error-prone    An alternative is to call resignFirstResponder   on all text fields in the viewcontroller  Here s an example of creating a collection of all text fields  which in my case was needed for validation code anyway     IBOutlet weak var firstName  UITextField   IBOutlet weak var lastName  UITextField   IBOutlet weak var email  UITextField   var allTextFields  Array lt UITextField gt       Forced unwrapping so it must be initialized in viewDidLoad override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       self allTextFields    self firstName  self lastName  self email      With the collection available  it s a simple matter to iterate through all of them   private func dismissKeyboard         for textField in allTextFields               textField resignFirstResponder             So now you can call dismissKeyboard   in your gesture recognizer  or wherever is appropriate for you   Drawback is that you must maintain the list of UITextFields when you add or remove fields   Comments welcome  If there is a problem with calling resignFirstResponder   on controls that aren t first responder  or if there s an easy and guaranteed non-buggy way to track the current first responder  I d love to hear about it

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Here s a succinct way of doing it   let endEditingTapGesture   UITapGestureRecognizer target  view  action   selector UIView endEditing       endEditingTapGesture cancelsTouchesInView   false view addGestureRecognizer endEditingTapGesture

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In swift you can use  override func touchesBegan   touches  Set lt UITouch gt   with event  UIEvent         super touchesBegan touches  with  event      view endEditing true

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I prefer this one-liner   view addGestureRecognizer UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   dismissKeyboardFromView      Just put that in the override viewDidLoad function in whichever subclassed UIViewController you want it to occur  and then put the following code in a new empty file in your project called  UIViewController dismissKeyboard swift    import UIKit  extension UIViewController          This function is called when the tap is recognized     func dismissKeyboardFromView sender  UITapGestureRecognizer             let view   sender  view         view  endEditing true

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This one liner resigns Keyboard from all any  the UITextField in a UIView  self view endEditing true

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For Swift3  Register an event recogniser in viewDidLoad  let tap   UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector hideKeyBoard     then we need to add the gesture into the view in same viewDidLoad   self view addGestureRecognizer tap    Then we need to initialise the registered  method  func hideKeyBoard sender  UITapGestureRecognizer    nil       view endEditing true

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Use IQKeyboardmanager that will help you solve easy                                                     how to disable the keyboard    1   import UIKit  class ViewController  UIViewController UITextFieldDelegate        IBOutlet weak var username  UITextField      IBOutlet weak var password  UITextField      override func viewDidLoad           super viewDidLoad          username delegate   self       password delegate   self          Do any additional setup after loading the view  typically from a nib           override func didReceiveMemoryWarning           super didReceiveMemoryWarning            Dispose of any resources that can be recreated           func textFieldShouldReturn textField  UITextField   - gt  Bool    called when    return  key pressed  return NO to ignore             textField resignFirstResponder         return true           override func touchesBegan    Set lt UITouch gt   with  UIEvent          username resignFirstResponder        password resignFirstResponder        self view endEditing true

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override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad    self view addGestureRecognizer UITapGestureRecognizer target  self  action   selector tap        func tap sender  UITapGestureRecognizer           print  tapped           view endEditing true      Try this It s Working

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