Question

I have a text box in a view, when I focus it the keyboard pops up, I can type some stuff in, but when I’m done with it I can’t lose focus to it. Like if I click outside the text box the keyboard remains.

How can I get rid of the keyboard?

Answer 1

From the docs:

It is your application’s responsibility to dismiss the keyboard at the
time of your choosing. You might dismiss the keyboard in response to a
specific user action, such as the user tapping a particular button in
your user interface. You might also configure your text field delegate
to dismiss the keyboard when the user presses the “return” key on the
keyboard itself. To dismiss the keyboard, send the
resignFirstResponder message to the text field that is currently the
first responder. Doing so causes the text field object to end the
current editing session (with the delegate object’s consent) and hide
the keyboard.

Here is one way to do it using a UITextFieldDelegate method:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
   [textField resignFirstResponder];
}

Make sure you hook up the delegate to the textField.