iOS - Workaround for manually focusing on an input/textarea

Question

So I\'ve seen a lot of threads about the iOS issue with focusing on an input/textarea element. (See here and here) It seems that iOS will not let you manually focus on one o

Answer 1

I used iPad Air [iOS 7.0.4], iPad Mini [iOS 7.1] and jQuery [1.11.3] for my test.

The .focus event worked perfectly for me both in input and textarea fields.

I am pasting the code below with which I tested. Please let me know if I am missing anything.

Is it for some previous version of iOS / jQuery ?

My HTML,

    
    
    Add Focus

My query,

$('#btn').click(function(){
    $('#in').focus();
})