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 to accomplish this by doing the following:

textView.editable = YES; textView.editable = NO; 

This just seems hacky to me, is there another way?

Answer 1

Since UITextView inherits from UIResponder (indirectly, it actually inherits from UIScrollView, which inherits from UIView which then inherits from UIResponder) you can call the -becomeFirstResponder method on your text field, which will cause it to become the first responder and begin editing:

[textView becomeFirstResponder]; 

Answer 2

Swift:

textView.becomeFirstResponder()