iOS - Dismiss keyboard when touching outside of UI

Question

I'm wondering how to make the keyboard disappear when the user touches outside of a UITextField.

Answer 1

Just to add to the list here my version of how to dismiss a keyboard on outside touch.

viewDidLoad:

UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleSingleTap:)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:singleTap];

Anywhere:

-(void)handleSingleTap:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)sender{
    [textFieldName resignFirstResponder];
    puts("Dismissed the keyboard");
}

Answer 2

How about this: I know this is an old post. It might help someone :)

- (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {  
    NSArray *subviews = [self.view subviews];
    for (id objects in subviews) {
        if ([objects isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
            UITextField *theTextField = objects;
            if ([objects isFirstResponder]) {
                [theTextField resignFirstResponder];
            }
        } 
    }
}

Answer 3

One of the most easiest and shortest way is to add this code to your viewDidLoad

[self.view addGestureRecognizer:[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                                     initWithTarget:self.view
                                     action:@selector(endEditing:)]];

Answer 4

• Set text fields delegate in view did load:

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

• Add this Function:

  func textFieldShouldReturn(userText: UITextField!) -> Bool 
  {
   userText.resignFirstResponder()
   return true;
  }
  

Answer 5

Plenty of great answers here about using UITapGestureRecognizer--all of which break UITextField's clear (X) button. The solution is to suppress the gesture recognizer via its delegate:

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch {
    BOOL touchViewIsButton = [touch.view isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]];
    BOOL touchSuperviewIsTextField = [[touch.view superview] isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]];
    return !(touchViewIsButton && touchSuperviewIsTextField);
}

It's not the most robust solution but it works for me.

Answer 6

You can use UITapGestureRecongnizer method for dismissing keyboard by clicking outside of UITextField. By using this method whenever user will click outside of UITextField then keyboard will get dismiss. Below is the code snippet for using it.

 UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                                   initWithTarget:self
                                   action:@selector(dismissk)];

    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];


//Method
- (void) dismissk
{
    [abctextfield resignFirstResponder];
    [deftextfield resignFirstResponder];

}