UIKeyboard not appearing when tapping on UITextField

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I had been into a weird problem, As every other thing is working fine. All of sudden when I compile my application and got this problem, when I tapped on the UITextField white space is popping up, but the keyboard is not visible and I am not able to enter anything.

what about other text fields? same result? Do you use some controls/custom classes for UITextField? — Injectios, Apr 28 '14 at 13:48
possible duplicate of [How to show the keyboard for a UIView](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10819707/how-to-show-the-keyboard-for-a-uiview) — jww, Apr 29 '14 at 04:38
@jww NOt duplicate of the mentioned question ,as i wrote in the question that everything is working fine ,all of sudden it stop working.Now today morning when i powered on my machine it is working fine.but got a new problem as now different views in the application are not pushing or poping.SO rather than wasting time to figure out the problem ,i rolled back my code to yesterday morning and saved a copy of faulty code.I will check the code for the problem later on. — , Apr 29 '14 at 06:40
Possible duplicate of [Xcode 6: Keyboard does not show up in simulator](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24420873/xcode-6-keyboard-does-not-show-up-in-simulator) — Nhat Dinh, Oct 26 '16 at 13:13

Shekhu · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-26T06:29:54.190

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Following will fix the keyboard issue

Simulator -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Toggle Software Keyboard should solve this problem.

![Simulator->Hardware->Keyboard->Toggle Software Keyboard]

edited Mar 26 '15 at 06:29

answered Apr 29 '14 at 04:03

Shekhu

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Thanks for the help,restarting the Mac fixed the problem ...@aiden – Apr 29 '14 at 04:05
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Ugh. Must have caught command shift k by accident and spent an hour trying to figure out why my keyboard wasn't appearing! Thanks. – earnshavian Jan 26 '15 at 19:12
Note that it works only at the runtime moment when the keyboard is supposed to appear. – Miroslav Apr 17 '16 at 18:47

score 49 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 17:20

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Try this:

Goto:

iOS Simulator -> Hardware -> Keyboard

And Uncheck

'Connect Hardware Keyboard'

Or simply do: ⇧ shift + ⌘ Command + K

Keep Coding......... :)

answered Oct 07 '14 at 17:20

Krishna Raj Salim

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I tried "Toggle Software Keyboard" and the keyboard appeared for me. – spstanley Oct 19 '14 at 17:28
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what kind of sorcery is this? :) – alper_k Nov 24 '14 at 15:46

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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This can also happen with Xcode 6/iOS 8 because of simulator settings:

Xcode 6: Keyboard does not show up in simulator

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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answered Sep 16 '14 at 05:23

MaryAnn Mierau

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 14 '16 at 09:39

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Also make sure you aren't messing with yourTextField.inputView

answered Jan 14 '16 at 09:39

Joe

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 03 '14 at 07:44

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I've got the same problem but only on 5s simulator. And, I tried to go to simulator->reset content and settings. That actually solved the problem.

answered Oct 03 '14 at 07:44

Fred Hsiao

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I'm glad to have found this suggestion but I'm not thrilled that I spent my night on this problem. – MitchellTR Oct 07 '14 at 04:01

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 28 '14 at 13:30

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in this regard check two things

1-userInteractionEnabled=true

2- textFielfd.editable = YES;

Hope this will solve your problem.

answered Apr 28 '14 at 13:30

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NO ,As user Interaction is Enabled and white space is poping instead of keyboard – Apr 28 '14 at 13:37
NO help with the second option – Apr 28 '14 at 13:49

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 28 '14 at 17:36

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check if at some point you're doing something like

[self.view endEditing:YES];
[self.myTextField resignFirstResponder];

or maybe you're assigning the first responder to some other control.

Hope it helps

answered Apr 28 '14 at 17:36

washloops

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rbs · Answer 8 · 2014-04-28T14:05:09.983

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Check if the outlet is mapped and the delegate set to the controller ? Also check if the controller has <UITextFieldDelegate> set. Send screen shot of the file inspector, perhaps?

edited Apr 28 '14 at 14:05

answered Apr 28 '14 at 13:59

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 29 '14 at 04:05

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Add [textField canBecomeFirstresponder];

answered Apr 29 '14 at 04:05

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Rendel · Answer 10 · 2015-12-09T14:40:09.823

I had the similar problem but on the actual device.
I talked to apple developer technical support (Apple DTS) and they told me that it's a swift compiler or Xcode bug.
I did a little workaround. Don't think that It's a best solution until apple solves this problem but it works without any problem now.

Just override the UITextField class:

class PBTextField : UITextField {

var keyboardShowDate = NSDate()

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder)
{
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)

    self.initialisation()
}

override init(frame: CGRect)
{
    super.init(frame: frame)

    self.initialisation()
}

func initialisation()
{
    self.addTarget(self, action: "editingDidBegin:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingDidBegin)
    self.addTarget(self, action: "editingDidEnd:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingDidEnd)
}

// MARK: Delegates

func editingDidBegin(sender: AnyObject)
{
    self.becomeFirstResponder()
    self.keyboardShowDate = NSDate()
}

func editingDidEnd(sender: AnyObject)
{
    if(fabs(self.keyboardShowDate.timeIntervalSinceNow) <= 0.5)
    {
        self.becomeFirstResponder()
        dispatch_after(0.1, block: { () -> Void in
            self.becomeFirstResponder()
        })
    }
}

}

dispatch methods:

typealias dispatch_cancelable_block_t = ((cancel: Bool) -> Void)

func dispatch_async(block: dispatch_block_t, background: Bool = true) -> dispatch_cancelable_block_t?
{
return dispatch_after(0, block: block, background: background)
}

func dispatch_after(delay: NSTimeInterval = 0, block: dispatch_block_t, background: Bool = false) -> dispatch_cancelable_block_t?
{
var cancelableBlock : dispatch_cancelable_block_t?

let delayBlock : dispatch_cancelable_block_t = { (cancel) -> Void in
    if(cancel == false)
    {
        if(background)
        {
            block()
        }
        else
        {
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), block)
        }
    }

    cancelableBlock = nil
};

cancelableBlock = delayBlock

dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(delay * NSTimeInterval(NSEC_PER_SEC))), dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), {
    if let cb = cancelableBlock
    {
        cb(cancel: false)
    }
})

return cancelableBlock
}

func cancel_block(block: dispatch_cancelable_block_t)
{
    block(cancel: true)
}

Hope this will help to someone.
If you got better solution, please let me know in comments.
Thanks
Giorgi

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