iOS Keyboard (inside UIRemoteKeyboardWindow) is No

Question

I've recently discovered a problem in my app that only seems to occur in iOS 10 where the system keyboard does not display when programmatically triggering a text field to become first responder inside of a completion handler -- specifically the completion handler I get back from a Touch ID attempt.

The crazy part of this issue is, even though the keyboard is not shown, the area on the iPhone where the keyboard normally would be is still responding to touch inputs as if the user is typing on the keyboard!

After doing a lot of investigation and debugging into the issue, I stumbled across the fact that the hidden property is set to YES on the private UIRemoteKeyboardWindow that gets created after becomeFirstResponder is invoked on the text field. In other situations where I bring up the keyboard, the value of that hidden property is set to NO.

Has anybody else run into this problem in iOS 10? If so, anybody found a solution to this? I tried manually setting the hidden value to YES on the window instance but that had no effect on it. I'm pretty much grasping at straws at this point.

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Here's the output of the windows from the UIApplication instance when the text field becomes first responder outside of the Touch ID completion handler (pay close attention to UIRemoteKeyboardWindow):

And when the UITextField becomes the first responder inside the Touch ID handler...

First Update

So I did not consider the becomeFirstResponder being done on the main thread before that some have pointed out, but unfortunately, it did not resolve the issue -- however, I did make some additional discoveries. The hidden window issue seems to stem from outputting the details of the UIApplication instance's windows immediately after issuing the becomeFirstResponder action. After doing that, I set a breakpoint on the UITextField editing callback and proceed to interact with the keyboard (that is invisible) -- and when I output the window details, it doesn't seem like the hidden property is ever set to YES (which can possibly rule out that property being set as the cause of the issue), but I still have an invisible keyboard! I started debugging the view hierarchy and below is a screenshot of what it looks like when I examine the keyboard window:

Hopefully you guys can see what I discovered here which is that the keys are present but there appears to be some white view blocking them from sight. The thing is, I don't even see those white views on my app screen. I just see what normally sits behind the keyboard when it's present.

Answer 1

As a temporary workaround, call becomeFirstResponder after a delay fixed this, however, not happy with the hacky solution.

Answer 2

Looks like the issue occurring for different scenarios too - keyboard could be invisible even if you are selecting the textField manually after cancelling touchId alert.