How to hide the keyboard when touching screen (search bar)

Question

The keyboard hides when I click search or when I click on cancel. But I want also that the keyboard hides when I click somewhere on the screen. I found several tutorials for the textfield, but we are using the search bar.

Can someone tell me how to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try This

in your .h file add UISearchBar

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UISearchBar *searchBar; 

in your .m file

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

    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
}


- (void) dismissKeyboard
{
    // add self
    [self.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}

Answer 2

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
   [yourTextField1 resignFirstResponder];
   [yourTextField2 resignFirstResponder];
   [yourTextField3 resignFirstResponder];
   [yourSearchBar resignFirstResponder];
   //etc
}

But probably you need to check where are you touching at since you don't want to hide the keyboard if you're touching on a text input or search box.

Answer 3

Try to use this one

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

Answer 4

You could add a UITapGestureRecognizer to dismiss your keyboard.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                                   initWithTarget:self
                                   action:@selector(dismissKeyboard)];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
}

- (void) dismissKeyboard {
     [self.view endEditing:YES];
}