Most of the time, we tend to put textField in a tableView, perhaps it is much simpler.

If your form in UITableView extends UITableViewController, then you can skip the post, UITableViewController will handle this issue for you.

But, in certain situations, we need to extends UIViewController and handle the keyboard with UITableView by our own.

The ViewController.m is subclass of UIViewController

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@property (nonatomic) UITableView *tableView;

...

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    _tableView = [[UITableView alloc] init];
    _tableView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
    _tableView.delegate = self;
    _tableView.dataSource = self;
    _tableView.rowHeight = kTextFieldCellHeight;
    _tableView.allowsSelection = NO;
    [self.view addSubview:_tableView];

    /* add constraint for the _tableView */

    // 1.
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

#pragma mark - keyboard notification
- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    NSDictionary *userInfo = [notification userInfo];
    CGSize keyboardSize = [[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue].size;
    
    // 2.
    _tableView.tableFooterView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, keyboardSize.width, keyboardSize.height)];
}

- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    // 3.
    _tableView.tableFooterView = nil;
}
  1. Register for keyboard notifications
  2. When the keyboard shown, add footerView to that table and make sure the height is same as keyboard.
    (when add in the footerView, the contentSize of the tableView is actually increase, so that
    it has more room to scroll and the keyboard won’t block the content below)
  3. When keyboard hide, remove the footerView, the tableView’s contentSize will then changed back to
    it’s original height.

Update: 13 Jan, 2015

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- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    NSDictionary *userInfo = [notification userInfo];
    CGSize keyboardSize = [[userInfo objectForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] CGRectValue].size;
    
    UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, keyboardSize.height, 0.0);
    _signInTableView.contentInset = contentInsets;
    _signInTableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
    
    _signUpTableView.contentInset = contentInsets;
    _signUpTableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
}

- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
    _signInTableView.contentInset = contentInsets;
    _signInTableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
    
    _signUpTableView.contentInset = contentInsets;
    _signUpTableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets;
}

This solution doesn’t need to care about the tableFooterView, but change it’s content inset instead.