Is there any way of asking an iOS view which of its children has first responder status? [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you need first responder just so you can ask it to resign its status, here is an approach to get any to resign. UIView has a method that will iterate through all of UIViews subviews and ask any that are first responder to resign.

[[self view] endEditing:YES];

Here is a link to Apple's UIView Docs "This method looks at the current view and its subview hierarchy for the text field that is currently the first responder. If it finds one, it asks that text field to resign as first responder. If the force parameter is set to YES, the text field is never even asked; it is forced to resign."