What Is the Height of Iphone's Onscreen Keyboard

What is the height of iPhone's onscreen keyboard?

Keyboard height is 216pts for portrait mode and 162pts for Landscape mode.

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What is the height of iPad's onscreen keyboard?

The portrait height is 264 while the landscape height is 352.

I know this is a late answer, but I just came across this question myself.

iPhoneX and iPhone 8 keyboard height are different

The keyboard height for both iPhone X and iPhone 8 should be correct. I can only guess that maybe you have a problem in your code for locating the "red part", and your assumption was that the keyboard height was incorrect whereas the problem was actually in the location of the view. Now - the reason for the location problem? My second guess is the red part is pinned to the bottom safe area layout guide, which on the iPhone 8 is 0, but on the iPhone X is inset 34 points.

See this image to illustrate both the difference in keyboard heights and that it is possible to draw a rectangle just above the keyboard using the keyboard height from the keyboard height reported in the NSNotification for the keyboardWillShow method:

If you want to share your code / constraints for positioning the red view, I should be able to show you the problem.

--Edit: For anyone interested to know how I extract the drew the red rectangle, I go into it in a blog post here.

How to get height of Keyboard?

Swift

You can get the keyboard height by subscribing to the UIKeyboardWillShowNotification notification. (Assuming you want to know what the height will be before it's shown).

Swift 4

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
    self,
    selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow),
    name: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification,
    object: nil
)

@objc func keyboardWillShow(_ notification: Notification) {
    if let keyboardFrame: NSValue = notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue {
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
    }
}

Swift 3

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
    self,
    selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow),
    name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow,
    object: nil
)

@objc func keyboardWillShow(_ notification: Notification) {
    if let keyboardFrame: NSValue = notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? NSValue {
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.cgRectValue
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
    }
}

Swift 2

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardWillShow:", name: UIKeyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)

func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {
        let userInfo: NSDictionary = notification.userInfo!
        let keyboardFrame: NSValue = userInfo.valueForKey(UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey) as! NSValue
        let keyboardRectangle = keyboardFrame.CGRectValue()
        let keyboardHeight = keyboardRectangle.height
    }

Get height of iOS keyboard without displaying keyboard

A quick solution that you could use, is the same one used when you want to cache the keyboard (the first time you show it, you get a slight delay...). The library is here. The interesting bits:

[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] lastObject] addSubview:field];
[field becomeFirstResponder];
[field resignFirstResponder];
[field removeFromSuperview];

So basically is showing it and then hiding it. You could listen for notifications and just get the height without actually seeing it. Bonus: you get to cache it. :)

iOS foreign language keyboard heights?

iPhone 6 (9.0)

Portrait:

• English (predictive text disabled): 216
• English (predictive text minimized): 225
• Chinese (Simplified) - Handwriting: 252
• Emoji: 258
• English (predictive text maximized): 258
• Chinese (Simplified) - Pinyin - 10 Key: 283.5

Landscape:

• Chinese (Simplified) - Pinyin - 10 Key: 162
• English (predictive text disabled): 162
• English (predictive text minimized): 171
• Emoji: 194
• English (predictive text maximized): 194
• Chinese (Simplified) - Handwriting: 198

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iPad Air (9.0)

Portrait:

• English (shortcut bar only): 55
• English (without shortcut bar): 265
• Emoji: 303
• English (with shortcut bar): 313
• Chinese (Simplified) - Handwriting (without shortcut bar): 406
• Chinese (Simplified) - Handwriting (with shortcut bar): 461

Landscape:

• English (without shortcut bar): 353
• Emoji: 391
• English (with shortcut bar): 398
• Chinese (Simplified) - Handwriting (without shortcut bar): 406
• Chinese (Simplified) - Handwriting (with shortcut bar): 461

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Note: all values are ordered by size then name.

Note: shortcut bar refers to the iOS 9 Shortcut Bar and/or iOS 8's QuickType bar which is enabled/disabled by choosing the Predictive and Shortcuts options.

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