iOS – Dismiss keyboard when touching outside of UITextField

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You’ll need to add an UITapGestureRecogniser and assign it to the view, and then call resign first responder on the UITextField on it’s selector.

The code:

In viewDidLoad

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

[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];

In dismissKeyboard:

-(void)dismissKeyboard 
{
    [aTextField resignFirstResponder];
}

(Where aTextField is the textfield that is responsible for the keyboard)

Swift 3 version looks like that

let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.dismissKeyboard (_:)))
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)

For dismissKeyboard

@objc func dismissKeyboard (_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
    aTextField.resignFirstResponder()
}

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