The iOS soft keyboard is a crucial component of many iOS apps, allowing users to enter text and interact with the app. However, in certain situations, you may need to programmatically hide the keyboard to improve the user experience. This could be because the user has finished entering text and no longer needs the keyboard, or because the app needs to perform an action that requires the keyboard to be hidden. In this article, we’ll explore how to programmatically hide the iOS soft keyboard using Swift. We’ll cover two methods: using the resignFirstResponder() method on the active UITextField or UITextView object, and calling the endEditing(_:) method on the view controller to end editing on the current view and hide the keyboard.
You can programmatically close/hide the iOS soft keyboard using the resignFirstResponder() method of the active UITextField or UITextView object.
Here’s an example code snippet:
// Assume that textField is a UITextField object textField.resignFirstResponder()
This code will hide the soft keyboard if it is currently being displayed for the textField object.
Alternatively, you can also call endEditing(_:) method on the view controller to end editing on the current view and hide the keyboard. This method resigns the first responder status for the view, which causes the keyboard to be dismissed.
This code will hide the soft keyboard if it is currently being displayed for the textField object.
Alternatively, you can also call endEditing(_:) method on the view controller to end editing on the current view and hide the keyboard. This method resigns the first responder status for the view, which causes the keyboard to be dismissed.
// Assume that self is a view controller
self.view.endEditing(true)This code will dismiss the keyboard for the current view controller, regardless of which text field or text view is active.
In conclusion, programmatically hiding the iOS soft keyboard can be achieved through two methods: using the resignFirstResponder() method on the active UITextField or UITextView object, or calling the endEditing(_:) method on the view controller to end editing on the current view and hide the keyboard.
Both methods are available in Swift 2.0 and later and can be used with iOS 7.0 and later. However, it’s important to note that different iOS versions may have slightly different behavior when it comes to hiding the keyboard, so you should test your code on different versions to ensure it behaves as expected.