Close iOS Keyboard by touching anywhere using Swift

Swift 4 working

Create extension as below & call hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround() in your Base view controller.

//
//  UIViewController+Extension.swift
//  Project Name
//
//  Created by ABC on 2/3/18.
//  Copyright © 2018 ABC. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit

extension UIViewController {
    func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround() {
        let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, 
                         action: #selector(hideKeyboard))
        view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)
    }

    @objc func hideKeyboard() {
        view.endEditing(true)
    }
}

Most important thing to call in your Base View Controller so that no need to call all time in all view controllers.

An answer to your question on how to dismiss the keyboard in Xcode 6.1 using Swift below:

import UIKit

class ItemViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {

    @IBOutlet var textFieldItemName: UITextField!

    @IBOutlet var textFieldQt: UITextField!

    @IBOutlet var textFieldMoreInfo: UITextField!


    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        textFieldItemName.delegate = self
        textFieldQt.delegate = self
        textFieldMoreInfo.delegate = self
    }

                       ...

    /**
     * Called when 'return' key pressed. return NO to ignore.
     */
    func textFieldShouldReturn(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        textField.resignFirstResponder()
        return true
    }


   /**
    * Called when the user click on the view (outside the UITextField).
    */
    override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
        self.view.endEditing(true)
    }

}

(Source of this information).

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
          
    //Looks for single or multiple taps. 
     let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(UIInputViewController.dismissKeyboard))

    //Uncomment the line below if you want the tap not not interfere and cancel other interactions.
    //tap.cancelsTouchesInView = false 

    view.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
}

//Calls this function when the tap is recognized.
@objc func dismissKeyboard() {
    //Causes the view (or one of its embedded text fields) to resign the first responder status.
    view.endEditing(true)
}

Here is another way to do this task if you are going to use this functionality in multiple UIViewControllers:

// Put this piece of code anywhere you like
extension UIViewController {
    func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround() {
        let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(UIViewController.dismissKeyboard))
        tap.cancelsTouchesInView = false            
        view.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
    }
    
    @objc func dismissKeyboard() {
        view.endEditing(true)
    }
}

Now in every UIViewController, all you have to do is call this function:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround() 
}

This function is included as a standard function in my repo which contains a lot of useful Swift Extensions like this one, check it out: https://github.com/goktugyil/EZSwiftExtensions