How do I give a UITextView focus programmatically?

So I want to bring in a modal view controller that has a UITextView in it and I want the keyboard to automatically popup and the UITextView have focus.

I found a way to accomplish this by doing the following:

textView.editable = YES;
textView.editable = NO;

This just seems hacky to me, is there another way?

Solution 1:

Since UITextView inherits from UIResponder (indirectly, it actually inherits from UIScrollView, which inherits from UIView which then inherits from UIResponder) you can call the -becomeFirstResponder method on your text field, which will cause it to become the first responder and begin editing:

[textView becomeFirstResponder];

Solution 2:

Swift:

textView.becomeFirstResponder()

Solution 3:

That does seem somewhat hackish.

The Cocoa Touch terminology for 'having focus' is 'first responder' and UITextViews will display their keyboards when they are the first responder. I can think of several techniques to make the UITextView become the first responder, but the easiest is probably in your view controller's viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear methods:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{

    [myTextView becomeFirstResponder];

    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
}

Solution 4:

[textView becomeFirstResponder];