iOS 8 Keyboard Dismissed delay after modal view controller is dismissed

Question

In iOS 8+ I noticed that if you have an textfield that is currently the firstResponder in a view controller that was presented, when the view controller is dism

Answer 1

According to this, in iOS 8 it seems the view doesn’t resign first responder status until it’s actually offscreen.

http://prod.lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2014/Sep/msg00391.html

Our workaround is to call [self.view endEditing:YES] in -viewWillDisappear.

Answer 2

For Swift 3/4

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    self.view.endEditing(true)
}

Also if it's not resigning try calling resignFirstResponder on the text field you're trying to end typing on.

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    textField.resignFirstResponder()
}