Hiding the Keyboard when losing focus on a UITextView

Another approach I used a lot when working with UITableViews, Searchbar and keyboard is this, I think you can apply it to text field

UITapGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(hideKeyboard)]; [self.tableView addGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer]; gestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO; // this prevents the gesture recognizers to 'block' touches [gestureRecognizer release]; 

And then, here's the simple callback function

- (void)hideKeyboard { [myTextField resignFirstResponder]; } 

Hope it helps

In my view:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject]; // pass touches up to viewController [self.nextResponder touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; } 

In my viewcontroller:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject]; if (keyboardShown && [touch view] != self.TextView) { [self.TextView resignFirstResponder]; } [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; } - (void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification { keyboardShown = YES; } 

This is an old post, but I was implementing this solution when i found something a lot simpler (maybe it wasn't available back then).

[self.myTextView endEditing:YES];

I'm using a UITableView, so I put this line on the didSelectRowAtIndexPath: method. So far, so good...

Here is a better solution that does not depend upon an outlet and is going to work with any number of UITextField objects in your controller.

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject]; if (![[touch view] isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) { [self.view endEditing:YES]; } [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; } 

override func touchesBegan(touches: NSSet, withEvent event: UIEvent) { var touch = event.allTouches()?.anyObject() as UITouch if( textfield.isFirstResponder() && touch.view != textfield) { textfield.resignFirstResponder() NSLog("Resigning first responder since touches began outside") } super.touchesBegan(touches, withEvent: event) } 

ohhorob's answer worked for me too. Here's the simple swift equivalent.

Here is the swift 3 code

override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) { if let touch = touches.first { if textField.isFirstResponder && touch.view != textField { textField.resignFirstResponder() } } super.touchesBegan(touches, with: event) } 

Very easy

-(void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { [self.view endEditing:YES]; } 

I wanted a version of this that worked for resigning from any view, without requiring specific outlets for each one.. Here is my solution, which I put into one of my standard container views..

It's using MonoTouch C#, though it should be obvious how to convert it to Objective-C

 private void findAndResignFirstResponder(UIView node=null) { if (node == null) { return; } if (node.IsFirstResponder) { node.ResignFirstResponder(); return; } foreach (UIView view in node.Subviews) { findAndResignFirstResponder(node:view); } } private bool haveDrag = false; public override void TouchesEnded(NSSet touches, UIEvent evt) { if (!haveDrag) { UITouch touch = (UITouch)evt.AllTouches.AnyObject; if (!touch.View.CanBecomeFirstResponder) { this.findAndResignFirstResponder(this); Console.WriteLine("resign"); } } base.TouchesEnded (touches, evt); } public override void TouchesMoved(NSSet touches, UIEvent evt) { haveDrag = true; base.TouchesMoved (touches, evt); } public override void TouchesBegan(NSSet touches, UIEvent evt) { haveDrag = false; base.TouchesBegan (touches, evt); } 

My way to do it...

• Add a reference to the TextView in the @interface of your ViewController:

  @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *yourTextView; 

• Override this method in the @implementation of your ViewController:

  - (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView { if ([self.yourTextView isFirstResponder]) { [self.yourTextView resignFirstResponder]; } }