UITableViewController not scrolling view when keyboard appears

Question

I have a UITableViewController with around 20 static cells, some of these cells have UITextFields within them and some are just for selecting with a checkmark. The table is about 1.5 views worth so scrolling is required to get at the lower text fields.

When I click within a textfield at the bottom of the table the keyboard pops up as it should but this then appears over the cell/textfield.

I was under the impression (From Apple docs and elsewhere) that the UITableViewController class handles scrolling of the view automatically when a keyboard appears in any orientation and shifts the tableview up so that the cell is visible, this isn't happening though.

IOS 5.1, iPad Portrait.

Answer 1

Make sure that if you are overriding viewWillAppear that you call

[super viewWillAppear:animated];

If you don't, the Scroll View will not scroll up properly.

Swift

super.viewWillAppear(animated)

Answer 2

I found non of these answers to be correct. After a while, I notice that if you push a controller it won't work ... but if you present it modally.. the table will automatically scroll to the used textfield.

Hope that saves time and stress to anyone.

Answer 3

If the auto scroll of UITableViewController doesn't work with the UITextFields in cells or scroll weirdly, do these steps. Swift 5 iOS 13.2 tested 100%

First implement viewWillAppear but don't call super.viewWillAppear (this will stop auto scroll)

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {

}

Then let's do the scroll manually.

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {

  //Notification center observers
  NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow(notification:)),
                                             name: UIResponder.keyboardDidShowNotification, object: nil)
  NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillHide(notification:)),
                                            name: UIResponder.keyboardWillHideNotification, object: nil)

}

//keybord show action
@objc func keyboardWillShow(notification: Notification) {
    tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: notification.getKeyBoardHeight, right: 0)
}
//keyboard hide action
@objc func keyboardWillHide(notification: Notification) {
    tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
}

extension Notification {

    var getKeyBoardHeight: CGFloat {

        let userInfo: NSDictionary = self.userInfo! as NSDictionary
        let keyboardFrame: NSValue = userInfo.value(forKey: UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey) as! NSValue
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue
        return keyboardRectangle.height
    }

}

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
   super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
   NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self)
}