Dismiss keyboard with swipe gesture

Question

In Messages.app you can dismiss the keyboard down by scrolling the list view. To be clear, it isn\'t simply responding to a scrollViewDidScroll event. The keyboard

Answer 1

Since iOS7, UIScroll​View and all classes that inherit from it (including UITableView) have a keyboard​Dismiss​Mode property. With Swift 5 and iOS 12, keyboard​Dismiss​Mode has the following declaration:

var keyboardDismissMode: UIScrollView.KeyboardDismissMode { get set }

The manner in which the keyboard is dismissed when a drag begins in the scroll view.

Note that UIScrollView.KeyboardDismissMode is an enum that has none, interactive and onDrag cases.

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#1. Set keyboard​Dismiss​Mode programmatically

The code snippet below shows a possible implementation of keyboardDismissMode:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // Dismiss keyboard when scrolling the tableView
    tableView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollView.KeyboardDismissMode.interactive

    /* ... */
}

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#2. Set keyboard​Dismiss​Mode in storyboard

As an alternative to the programmatic approach above, you can set the keyboard​Dismiss​Mode value for your UIScrollView/UITableView in the storyboard.

1. Select your UIScrollView / UITableView instance,
2. Select the Attributes Inspector,
3. Set the correct value for Keyboard.