Hiding the Keyboard when losing focus on a UITextView

Simplifying tuzzolotron's answer:Where the following outlet is properly connected in your xib

    IBOutlet UITextView *myTextView;

Use this in the view controller:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {    UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];    if ([myTextView isFirstResponder] && [touch view] != myTextView) {        [myTextView resignFirstResponder];    }    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];}

A tap on the View Controller's View, outside of the Text View, will resign the first responder, closing the keyboard.

Another approach I used a lot when working with UITableViews, Searchbar and keyboard is this, I think you can apply it to text field

UITapGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(hideKeyboard)];[self.tableView addGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer];gestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = NO;  // this prevents the gesture recognizers to 'block' touches[gestureRecognizer release];

And then, here's the simple callback function

- (void)hideKeyboard {    [myTextField resignFirstResponder];}

Hope it helps

In my view:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {    UITouch *touch = [touches anyObject];    // pass touches up to viewController    [self.nextResponder touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];}

In my viewcontroller:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {    UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];    if (keyboardShown && [touch view] != self.TextView)     {         [self.TextView resignFirstResponder];    }    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];}- (void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification{            keyboardShown = YES;}