In XCode, is there a way to remove the “hide-keyboard” button ? I’m trying to prevent the keyboard from hiding when the hide-keyboard button is tapped and can only be hidden when the done button is tapped.
The only options i found for the textfield and keyboard are:
fullnameTextfield.keyboardType
fullnameTextfield.keyboardAppearance
fullnameTextfield.keyboardLayoutGuide
None of these have any options for hiding a specific button on the keyboard.
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Even Apple’s legacy “archived” documentation had very little to say about iPad keyboard, but the short answer is:
no.
The software keyboard in iPad is also different, because in the landscape orientation, the form factor of the keyboard covers a lot of the screen, and often it will actually cover the insertion point of a text field that is in a non-scrollable view.
Also, the iPad keyboard has received extra features over time, like Split, Undock, and Floating, and they appear in a menu when you long press this button.
An iPad developer should work extra hard to make sure that the insertion point is never covered by the soft keyboard, but realistically, I think Apple’s choice to be conservative by always providing the “hide keyboard” button is sound.
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It’s not possible.
When the keyboard is open, you can’t directly remove it through standard public APIs because it’s part of the default iOS keyboard behaviour. However, you can use a custom keyboard if you want full control over the layout and appearance of the keyboard.