iOS: How to access the `UIKeyboard`?

Question

I want to get a pointer reference to UIKeyboard *keyboard to the keyboard on screen so that I can add a transparent subview to it, covering it completely, to ac

Answer 1

I found that developerdoug's answer wasn't working on iOS 7, but by modifying things slightly I managed to get access to what I needed. Here's the code I used:

-(UIView*)findKeyboard
{
    UIView *keyboard = nil;

    for (UIWindow* window in [UIApplication sharedApplication].windows)
    {
        for (UIView *possibleKeyboard in window.subviews)
        {
            if ([[possibleKeyboard description] hasPrefix:@"

From what I could make out, in iOS 7 the keyboard is composed of a UIPeripheralHostView containing two subviews: a UIKBInputBackdropView (which provides the blur effect on whatever's underneath the keyboard) and a UIKeyboardAutomatic (which provides the character keys). Manipulating the UIPeripheralHostView seems to be equivalent to manipulating the entire keyboard.

Discaimer: I have no idea whether Apple will accept an app that uses this technique, nor whether it will still work in future SDKs.