dismiss keyboard swift 5 code example

Example 1: Close iOS Keyboard by touching anywhere using Swift

// Put this piece of code anywhere you like
extension UIViewController {
    func hideKeyboardWhenTappedAround() {
        let tap: UITapGestureRecognizer = 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() 
}

Example 2: swift dismiss keyboard on return

extension UIViewController: UITextFieldDelegate{
    public func textFieldShouldReturn(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        textField.resignFirstResponder()
        return true;
    }
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    textField.delegate = self
}

Example 3: how to dismiss keyboard swiftui

struct ContentView: View {
    @State private var tipAmount = ""

    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            TextField("Name: ", text: $tipAmount)
                .textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle())
                .keyboardType(.decimalPad)

            Button("Submit") {
                print("Tip: \(self.tipAmount)")
                self.hideKeyboard()
            }
        }
    }
}