resignFirstResponder not hiding keyboard on textFieldShouldReturn

Question

I have a view with a UITextField which should hide the keyboard when return is pressed.

My function is this:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {  if ( textField == userPassword ) {   [textField resignFirstResponder];  }  return YES; } 

Normally the keyboard should be hidden but it stays on the screen. resignFirstResponder is correctly called. What am I missing?

Answer 1

I see you have the iPad tag on this. Do you happen to be presenting a modal view using UIModalPresentationFormSheet? If so, it looks like this is a limitation of the FormSheet modal presentation (either Apple is doing it intentionally for some reason, or it is a bug). See these other questions for more details:

Modal Dialog Does Not Dismiss Keyboard

Modal View Controller with keyboard on landscape iPad changes location when dismissed

Answer 2

There is this helpful method which allows you to dismiss the keyboard when presenting the Modal Dialog:

 - (BOOL)disablesAutomaticKeyboardDismissal { return NO; } 

This will override the default behavior of the modal dialog set by Apple and allow you dismiss the keyboard. It is in the UIViewController Class.

I hope this helps someone!