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11/29/2017 - 4:50 PM

Swift - Hide keyboard when user touches screen

It is important to include code to ensure that the user has a way to hide the keyboard after entering text into the two text areas in the user interface. Within the ViewController.swift file, override the touchesBegan method to hide the keyboard when the user taps the background view of the user interface:

Swift - Hide keyboard when user touches screen
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// See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32281651/how-to-dismiss-keyboard-when-touching-anywhere-outside-uitextfield-in-swift

  override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    self.view.endEditing(true)
  }

// For specific fields you can try:

override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>,
                   with event: UIEvent?) {
    addressField.endEditing(true)
    commentsField.endEditing(true)
}