iPad keyboard will not dismiss if modal ViewController presentation style is UIModalPresentationFormSheet

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See accepted answer (not top voted one) for solution as of iOS 4.3.

This question is about a behavior discovered in the iPad keyboard, where it refuses to be dismissed if shown in a modal dialog with a navigation controller.

Basically, if I present the navigation controller with the following line as below:

navigationController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;

The keyboard refuses to be dismissed. If I comment out this line, the keyboard goes away fine.

...

I've got two textFields, username and password; username has a Next button and password has a Done button. The keyboard won't go away if I present this in a modal navigation controller.

WORKS

broken *b = [[broken alloc] initWithNibName:@"broken" bundle:nil];
[self.view addSubview:b.view];

DOES NOT WORK

broken *b = [[broken alloc] initWithNibName:@"broken" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navigationController = 
[[UINavigationController alloc]
 initWithRootViewController:b];
navigationController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
navigationController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:navigationController animated:YES];
[navigationController release];
[b release];

If I remove the navigation controller part and present 'b' as a modal view controller by itself, it works. Is the navigation controller the problem?

WORKS

broken *b = [[broken alloc] initWithNibName:@"broken" bundle:nil];
b.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:b animated:YES];
[b release];

WORKS

broken *b = [[broken alloc] initWithNibName:@"broken" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navigationController = 
    [[UINavigationController alloc]
         initWithRootViewController:b];
[self presentModalViewController:navigationController animated:YES];
[navigationController release];
[b release];
first-responder uitextfield objective-c iphone ios
13 Answers

I solved this by using the UIModalPresentationPageSheet presentation style and resizing it immediately after I present it. Like so:

viewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationPageSheet;
viewController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:viewController animated:YES];
viewController.view.superview.autoresizingMask = 
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin | 
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin;    
viewController.view.superview.frame = CGRectMake(
    viewController.view.superview.frame.origin.x,
    viewController.view.superview.frame.origin.y,
    540.0f,
    529.0f
);
viewController.view.superview.center = self.view.center;
[viewController release];
user_1946740

You could also work around this in a universal app by simply checking the idiom and if it's an iPad, don't pop up the keyboard automatically at all and let the user tap whatever they want to edit.

May not be the nicest solution but it's very straightforward and doesn't need any fancy hacks that will break with the next major iOS release :)

user_4819830 
Swift 4.1:
extension UINavigationController {
   override open var disablesAutomaticKeyboardDismissal: Bool {
      return false
   }
}
user_40097970
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