How to hide the keyboard when touching screen (search bar)

Question

The keyboard hides when I click search or when I click on cancel. But I want also that the keyboard hides when I click somewhere on the screen. I found several tutorials for

Answer 1

You could add a UITapGestureRecognizer to dismiss your keyboard.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                                   initWithTarget:self
                                   action:@selector(dismissKeyboard)];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
}

- (void) dismissKeyboard {
     [self.view endEditing:YES];
}