How to open keyboard automatically on UITextField?

Question

I have a very simple table, and when the tocuh cell opens a new view with one UITextfield field. All I want is for the keyboard to open automatically, without having to touch the UIText field.

All of this is done in Interface Builder, so I'm not sure how to do it. Think I need to set focus at some point?

thank

Answer 1

To cause the keyboard to appear immediately, you need to set the text field as the first responder using the following line:

[textField becomeFirstResponder]; 

You can put this in the viewDidAppear: method.

Answer 2

Swift 3 and 4:

 override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) { super.viewDidAppear(animated) textField.becomeFirstResponder() } 

Answer 3

I prefer to add the first responder to the main topic -

  override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) { super.viewDidAppear(animated) DispatchQueue.main.async { self.textField.becomeFirstResponder() } } 

This comes in handy when a view controller view is added as a subview.