How do I give a UITextView focus programmatically?

Question

So I want to bring in a modal view controller that has a UITextView in it and I want the keyboard to automatically popup and the UITextView have focus.

I found a way

Answer 1

That does seem somewhat hackish.

The Cocoa Touch terminology for 'having focus' is 'first responder' and UITextViews will display their keyboards when they are the first responder. I can think of several techniques to make the UITextView become the first responder, but the easiest is probably in your view controller's viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear methods:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{

    [myTextView becomeFirstResponder];

    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
}