TextView selected when entering a view in iOS

Question

I have a ViewController specifically for making a comment, it opens when "Comment" button is pressed in MainVC and only contains a UITextView.

User has to click on the UITextView for the keyboard to appear to start typing.

Is it possible to make the UITextView selected by default when entering the view?

just search, google you have plenty of questions about that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/987975/how-do-i-give-a-uitextview-focus-programmatically — Lu_, Apr 04 '17 at 07:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '17 at 07:05

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This should do the trick (put it inside e.g. viewDidLoad())

yourTextView.becomeFirstResponder()

answered Apr 04 '17 at 07:05

Dawid Koncewicz

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '17 at 07:13

In you viewWillAppear method of comment viewController

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated) 
    textview.becomeFirstResponder()
}

so whenever your viewController will be appearing the keyboard will appear as textview becomes active responder.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '17 at 07:21

There is an one method becomeFirstResponder() that will help you to focus in UIKit like textField.

Put this method in viewDidAppear() or viewDidLoad()

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        txtcheck.becomeFirstResponder()

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

TextView selected when entering a view in iOS

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