Remove form assistant from keyboard in iPhone standalone web app

Question

Is it possible to remove the form assistant from the iPhone popup keyboard in a standalone web app? I know the general consensus is that it\'s not possible in Mobile Safari,

Answer 1

If you app is a web app wrapped in a native Objetive-C app this is possible by manipulating Keyboard views.

first, register to receive the keyboardDidShow notification:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardDidShow:) name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];

this will call the following method when keyboard shows up:

-(void)keyboardDidShow:(NSNotification*)notif
{
    NSArray *array = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows];

    for (UIWindow* wind in array) {
        for (UIView* currView in wind.subviews) {
            if ([[currView description] hasPrefix:@"

this method goes over the views on screen looking for the form assistant and hiding it.

NOTE: Apple probably won't reject this, as i've seen it being used by Facebook etc, but this technique might break in upcoming iOS releases.