Dismiss keyboard with swipe gesture (as in Message app)

Question

When the keyboard is showing on the iPhone\'s Messages app, if the user begins a swipe down from the messages tableview and continues into the keyboard area, the keyboard will b

Answer 1

Luckily, Apple added the handy property keyboardDismissMode on UIScrollView to make your life a little easier.

Now your app can behave like Messages.app just by changing a single property on your Storyboard, or alternatively by adding one line of code!

This property uses the new UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissMode enum. The possible values of this enum are as follows:

UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeNone        // the keyboard is not dismissed    automatically when scrolling
UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag      // dismisses the keyboard when a drag begins
UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeInteractive // the keyboard follows the dragging touch off screen, and may be pulled upward again to cancel the dismiss

Here’s the Storyboard property to change to dismiss the keyboard on scroll:

Hope that helps solving your problem